CHAP. CXII] 



CONl'FEItiE. PI^NUS. 



2217 



variety appears to be frequent 



in England. From White 



Knights, we have received 



specimens with cones not 



3 in. in length. It is said in 



the Nonveau Cours (V Agri- 

 culture, &c, that five faggots 



of the wood of this variety 



will burn as much lime as 



eight faggots of oak. 

 1 P. P. 5 fo/iis variegdtis. — This 



variety was discovered by Mr. 



Cree, the founder of the Ad- 



dlestone Nursery, towards 



the end of the last century ; 



and the original plant is still 



in the grounds occupied by 



his son, the author of Hor- 



tus Addlestonensis. There is 



a tree in the Horticultural 



Society's Garden, 12 years 



planted, which is 12 ft. high. 



It is propagated by inarching 



on the species. 

 J P. P. 6 mafitimus. — There is a 



tree, 25 ft. high, bearing this 



name, in the Horticultural 



Society's Garden; but, though 



somewhat more fastigiate than 

 some other pinasters there, it 

 may be a mere variation, not 

 worth recording as a variety. 

 $ P. P. 7 chinensis. — The tree 

 bearing this name in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden is 14 ft. high, after being 10 years planted. 

 It was raised from seeds imported from China by Mr. Reeves. The 

 tree is erect, and not so spreading as the species is in general ; but 

 it can scarcely be worth while to keep it distinct as a variety. 

 IP. P. 8 nepalensis. — The tree bearing this name in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden was, in 1837, 14 ft. high, after being 12 years 

 planted. It was raised from seeds sent home by Dr. Wallich, and 

 is a branchy spreading tree, with narrower cones than the species. 

 1 P. P. 9 novus holldndicus ; P. Novae Hollandiae Lodd. 6Vz/.,ed. 1836 ; P. 

 nova zaelandica, No. 28. in the arboretum at Kew. — The tree in the 

 Hackney arboretum is 10 ft. high, and has borne cones for several 

 years. It was raised from seeds received, in 1816, from a gentle- 

 man who said he had them from New Zealand, though in this 

 there is, doubtless, some mistake. 

 1 P. P. 10 st. helenicus. — A plant with this name, imported from St. 

 Helena, and which, in 1837, in the collection at Hendon Rectory, 

 was 6 ft. high in a pot, had leaves full 7 in. long, and a in. broad, and 

 remarkably strong and thick, with the leaves of the preceding year 

 pointing downwards, like those of P. Sabim"«wfl. If this variety 

 should be the same as the St. Helena pinaster in Loddiges's arbo- 

 retum, the luxuriance of its foliage will be greatly diminished when 

 the tree grows old; for the last tree in the line of pines in the 

 Hackney arboretum, which was imported from St. Helena in 1816, 

 is now (1837) 25 ft. high, and not distinguishable either in leaves 

 or cones from the common pinaster. 



