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branches likewise, and its clump-liead. Botli 

 trees, also, arc equally irregular in their growth ; 

 but tlie Pinaster is perhaps more picturesque in 

 the roughness of its dark-grey bark. On no trees 

 have I seen broader and better varied masses of 

 light and shade : but the closeness of the Pinaster's 

 foliage makes its head sometimes too heavy. 



The Cluster Pine also is a beautiful tree, and 

 approaches perhaps as near the' Stone Pine as the 

 Pinaster does. But I scarce recollect ever to 

 have seen it in a state of full maturity and per- 

 fection. If we may judge, however, from a 

 growth of thirty or forty years (at which age I 

 have often seen it), it shoots in so wild and 

 irregular a manner, so thick, rich and bushy, 

 that we may easily conceive how picturesque a 

 plant it must be in a state of full perfection. Its 

 cones, too, which it bears in clusters, from whence 

 it derives its name, are a great ornament to it. 

 In composition, indeed, such minutite are of little 

 value; but we are now considering trees as in- 

 dividuals. 



The Piiiastei" and the Cluster Piue are oue and the 



