108 Gilpin's foeest scjunert. 



broken porticos, Ionic pillars, triumphal arches, 

 fragments of old temples, and a variety of classic 

 ruins, which, in Italian landscape, it commonly 

 adorns. 



The Stone Pine promises little in its infancy in 

 point of picturesque beauty. It does not, hke 

 most of the Kr species, give an early indication of 

 its future form. In its youth it is dwarfish and 

 round-headed, with a short stem, and has rather the 

 shape of a full-grown bush than of an increasing 

 tree. As it grows older, it does not soon deposit 

 its formal shape. But as it attains maturity, its 

 picturesque form increases fast. Its lengthening 

 stem assumes commonly an easy sweep. It seldom, 

 indeed, deviates much from a straight line, but that 

 gentle deviation is very graceful, though, above 

 all other lines, difl&cult to trace. If accidentally 

 either the stem, or any of the larger branches, take 

 a larger sweep than usual, that sweep seldom fails 

 to be graceful. It is also among the beauties of 

 the Stone Pine that, as the lateral branches decay, 

 they leave generally stumps, which, standing out 

 in various parts of the stem, break the continuity 

 of its lines. 



