CHAP. CXIII 



COM'FERjE. pinus. 



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form of its scales, from the cone of P. (s.) p. 

 Mughus, which is also often called P.uncinata. 



P. s. 4 haguenensis ; Pin de Haguenau, Fr. ; Ro- 

 thentanne of Schottel, seedsman, Rastadt. — 

 This variety was introduced from the forests 

 of Haguenau (whence its name) and Rastadt, 

 on both sides of the Rhine. It is thus de- 

 scribed in Lawson's Manual : — " The old trees 

 are remarkably tall, straight, free from 

 branches, except near the summit, with re- 

 markably smooth reddish-coloured bark. The 

 leaves of the young plants are longer than 

 those of any of the preceding varieties ; they 

 are much waved or twisted, of a light green 

 slightly glaucous colour, and minutely serru- 

 lated ; the young terminal buds are of a pecu- 

 liar reddish colour, and generally more or less 

 covered with whitish resin. The young plants 

 are, besides their difference in shade of colour, 

 readily distinguished by their stronger and more 



rapid growth." (Agricult. Manual, p. 230.) On December 2. 1828, 

 we inspected the trees of this variety growing in the neighbourhood 

 of Rastadt, and purchased some seeds ; and on the next day we 

 went through the Forest of Haguenau, in company with M. Nebel, 

 of the firm of Nebel and Neunreutter, dealers in madder and in 

 seeds of the Haguenau pine. The young trees on both sides of the 

 Rhine were of remarkably vigorous growth, and answer well to the 

 description of the variety given by Mr. Lawson. The soil in which 

 they were growing on the German side of the Rhine was gravelly 

 or sandy on the surface, and somewhat loamy below; that at 

 Haguenau seemed to be all a deep sand ; but, the surfaces of both 

 forests being quite flat, and very little above the level of the Rhine, 

 there can be no doubt of the subsoil, at a certain depth, being moist 

 in both cases. The Forest of Haguenau, M. Nebel informed us, 

 extended over upwards of 30,000 acres ; but the greater part of the 

 pine trees were cut down during the war. There were still, how- 

 ever, a number remaining, with trunks remarkable for the red 

 colour and scaly (not furrowed) appearance of the bark, from 2 ft. 

 to 3 ft. in diameter, and from 60 ft. to 80 ft. or 90 ft. high. The 

 seed is taken out of the cones by drying on the same kiln which is 

 used for drying madder; and was sold, in 1828, at 1 franc 15 sous a 

 pound. We brought over some and distributed it ; and there are young 

 trees in Perthshire, in two places, to which the planters have given 

 the names of Loudon's Howe and Loudon's Brae. (See Gard. Mag., 

 vol. v. p. 663.) Seeds of this variety may be obtained from Vil- 

 morin, Charlwood, and Lawson ; and from the latter, we believe, 

 also young plants. 



P. s. 5 rigensis; Pin de Riga Desf. Hist., t. ii. p. 61. ; Pin de Russie, Pin 

 de Mature, Fr. — This variety is said to constitute the forests of 

 Lithuania and Livonia; to which, according to Desfontaines, the 

 minister of marine of the French government, in 1785, sent a 

 master mast-maker, named Barbe, from Brest, who brought back 

 with him a great quantity of seeds. These were sown at Koual, 

 near Brest ; at Couatilloux, near Annion ; at Mency, in the vicinity 

 of Odierne; and on the grounds of Du Hamel at Monceau. Accord- 

 ing to M. Fougeroux, the plants which came up did not differ from 

 the P. sylvestris; and he adds that Miller, in a letter to Du Hamel, 

 thanking him for the seeds of the pin de Riga which he had sent, 

 states that he had previously received 50 lb. of the seed of the Riga 



