28 PINES 
generally been regarded as exhibiting an hostility 
to English shores ; however, there is one graduating 
at Cambridge under the helpful tuition of Mr. R. 
Irwin Lynch, in the Botanical Gardens, with every 
prospect of obtaining a fair degree of success. Rather, 
I think, on the strength of this change of attitude, 
in an amiable direction, towards an English climate 
on the part of this Pine, it has been distributed for a 
few trial trips in various places among enthusiasts 
on the subject of encouraging rarities. As far as 
our experience goes here (Radnorshire), they seem to 
be holding their own at an altitude of 800 ft. above 
sea-level, but only so far in the earlier stages of life. 
Its chief peculiarity, that of shedding its leaf sheath 
in the second year, has been alluded to. The leaf 
sheath shows an imbricated arrangement, the scales 
growing like the stem-clinging leaves of a Cypress 
with a spreading point, which is a departure from | 
the ordinary custom of Pine trees. 
It has been said that once some confusion reigned 
between it and another Pine called P. Longifolia, a 
confusion which only did, and only could, arise from 
a wrong label. The latter tree has, however, been 
relegated in authoritative writings to the position 
of an alien in our midst, and it is only to be found 
interned in hotter places, such as the Temperate House 
at Kew. Were it to come into evidence, the cone 
structure would solve the problem of identity, to say 
nothing of other differences. Some obtained by me 
of the P. Longifolia from Naples are 5} in. long and 
2} in. diameter, while the cones of the Gerardiana 
obtained from India measure 64 in. long and 4} in. 
in diameter, a very substantial difference. 
It was discovered by Captain Gerard in the N. -W. 
Himalayas, and was known as an eatable-seeded Pine 
of the East Indies, that went by the name of P. Neoza. 
