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Properties and Uses, Soil, fyc. According to Professor Pallas, the wood is very 

 knotty and resinous, and very durable, but difficult to form into good planks, on 

 account of the number of its knots; the largest beams obtained from it being 

 only from 4 to 6 yards in length. The resin is produced in vast quantities, has a 

 pleasant odour, and is employed as incense in Catholic churches, like that of 

 P. s. pumflio, procured from Moldavia. As an ornamental tree, P. PaUasidna 

 deserves a place in every collection. " Of all pines," says Mr. Lambert, " this 

 is the best adapted for thin chalky soils, and maritime situations." Plants, in 

 the London nurseries, are 10s. Qd. each ; but, as the tree has not yet ripened 

 seeds in this country, they are not common. When a greater demand takes 

 place, seeds may easily be procured through the garden established by the 

 Russian government at Odessa. 



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1 10. P. (L.) pyrena n ica Lap. The Pyrenean Pine. 



Identification. La Pcyrouse Supp. Fl. Pyren.; Bon Jard., ed. 1837, p. 975. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 335. 



Synonymes. P. hispanica Cook's Sketches in Spain, 2. p. 237. ; Pinaster hispanica Roxas di San 

 Clemente ; P. pemce'llus Lap. Hist, des PL des Pyrenees. P. halepensis major Ann. d'Hort. de 

 Paris, 13. p. 187 ; Pin Nazaron, Pin pinceau, Fr. 



Engravings. Our fig. 2091., from a cone received from Captain Cook; fig. 2093., from a cone re- 

 ceived tirom M. Vilmorin ;fig. 2090., from a bud of the plant in theHorticultural Society's Garden ; 

 all of the natural size : andy^. 2092., to our usual scale, from a tree growing, in 1837, at Woodside, 

 near Hatfield, the residence of John Church, Esq. 



Spec, Char., Sfc. Leaves long, in tufts at the extremities of the shoots ; branches 

 dispersed, naked, scaly when young. 

 Cones conical, smooth, and a little re- 

 curved, seeds hard. (Lap.) The tree 

 when young somewhat resembles P. 

 halepensis, but when older it assumes 

 a much higher stature, and a more py- 

 ramidal form. The cones are, like 

 those of P. halepensis, on strong foot- 

 stalks ; but, instead of pointing down- 

 wards, they are always in a horizontal 

 direction. The leaves are long and fine; 

 but strong and upright, and arranged 

 round the branches like the hairs of a 

 2090 camel-hair pencil, whence the name of 

 pin pinceau. They are sometimes three in 

 a sheath, on the young shoots. (Ann. de la 

 Soc. d'Hort. de Paris, xiii. p. 186.) Captain 

 Cook, who introduced this species in 1834, 

 found it occupying the highest range of the 

 extensive forests of the Sierra de Segura, in 

 the south of Spain, where it overtops P. hale- 

 pensis; and in a corresponding situation, in 

 the vast forest region of the Sierra de Cuenya, 

 on the river Gabriel, in Upper Aragon, where 

 it forms extensive forests ; but La Peyrouse appears to have only found it in 

 the Pyrenees. " This majestic pine is concentrated in the Pyrenees, be- 

 tween the river of Lassera, and that of Cinca, in the valleys of PI: n, de la 

 Pez, and at Campo, where it is known by the name of pin nazaron." It 

 occupies a surface of nearly six square leagues, the greater part of which is 

 in Aragon, and the other part in France. It is neither isolated, nor in masses; 

 but grows mingled with other kinds of pines, in ancient woods, which are 

 almost inaccessible from the elevation at which they grow. Before the 

 revolution, a company bought the wood of Cinca, and had excavated a sub- 

 terranean road, to facilitate the removal of the trees. The revolution put a 

 stop to this project ; but the opening of these works is still to be seen at 

 the Port de la Pez." (Hist, des Plantes des Pyr.) M. La Peyrouse at first 

 supposed this pine to be the same as P. Laricio, which it greatly resembles in 



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