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the stone pine is the same as that recommended for the pinaster ; this species 

 having also very long taproots, which render it necessary to be extremely care- 

 ful in taking them up for removal : indeed, they should generally be grown in 

 pots ; and, when they are turned out of the pots to be planted where they 

 are finally to remain, the greatest care should be taken to stretch out the 

 roots, and to spread them carefully in every direction. 



Statistics. It is remarkable that there is no record of a stone pine in England which has attained 

 a timber-like size. No specimens arc mentioned either by Miller or Dr. Walker; and the one stated 

 by Gilpin to have been growing in the Botanic Garden at Oxford, and another, with a straight stem, 

 free from knots for a considerable height, with a great branching head, at Old Court, in Ireland, 

 described by Hayes, were probably pinasters. There is no tree of this species at Whitton or Pain's 

 Hill : the one at Kew is a mere bush ; as is that at Purser's Cross ; and Mr. Lambert only mentions 

 one in the garden of H. Cavendish, Esq., at Clapham, but does not state its age or height 



Existing Trees. In England. In Devonshire, at Luscombe, 11 years planted, 16 ft. high. In Berk- 

 shire, in a garden on the right hand of the road on entering Reading, a handsome tree, 30 ft. high, 

 with a clear trunk of 15 ft., and a broad spreading head upwards of 30 ft. in diameter. In Surrey, at 

 Bagshot Park, 16 years planted, 18 ft. high ; at Oakham, 33 years planted, 26 ft. high ; at Barwood 

 Park, 35 ft.^high. In Durham, at Southend, 19 years planted, it is 8 ft. high. In Hertfordshire, at 

 Cheshunt, 8 years planted, 6 ft. 6 in. high. In Staffordshire, at Trentham, 26 years planted, it is 16 ft. 

 high ; in the Handsworth Nursery, 12 years planted, it is 8 ft. high. In Suffolk, in the Bury Botanic 

 Garden, 8 years planted, it is 8 ft. high ; at Finborough Hall, 16 years planted, 18 ft. high ; at Ampton 

 Hall, 14 years planted, 9 ft. high. — In Scotland. In Kirkcudbright, at St. Mary's Isle, 14 years planted 

 it is 8 ft. high. — In Ireland. At Dublin, in the Glasnevin Garden, 33 years planted, 20 ft. high. In Cork, 

 at Castle Freke, 38 ft. high. In Down, at Ballyleady, 60 years planted, 45ft. high. — In France. At 

 Paris, in the Jardin des Plantes, 100 years old, it is 50 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the 

 head 42ft.; at Toulon, in the Botanic Garden, 10 years planted, 12ft. high; at Avranches, 29 

 years planted, 20 ft. high.— In the greater part of Germany, it is a green-house plant. 



Commercial Statistics. Seeds, in London, are 2s. per lb. Plants, one year's 

 seedlings, 5s. per hundred ; in pots, from 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, Is. and Is. 6d. each ; 

 at New York, one dollar. 



§ iv. Halepenses. 



Sect. Char. Leaves slender. Cones as long as the leaves, stalked, with 

 the terminations of the scales flattened. Buds small, roundish, imbricated, 

 and altogether without resin. 



2 14. P. halepe'nsis Ait. The Aleppo Pine. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 367. ; Lam. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 7. ; Desf. Fl. Alt., 2. p. 352 ; Mill. 

 Diet, No. 8. t. 208. ; N. Du Ham., 5. p. 238. ; Hayne Dend., p. 173. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 344. ; 

 Lodd. Cat, ed.1836. 



Synonymes. P. hierosolymitana Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 126. ; P. maritima prima Mathiolus; Pin de 

 ' Jerusaleme, Fr. 



Engravings. Mill. Diet, No. 8. t 208. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1 7. (exclusive of the ripe cone, which 

 is that of P. Laricio) ; our fig. 2113., to our usual scale; and figs. 2110. to 2112. ; all from speci- 

 mens from a tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves in pairs, very slender. Cones pyramidal, rounded 

 at the base, turned downwards, smooth, solitary or in pairs, stalked. 

 (Lois. , and obs.) Buds (see 7%. 2110.) from £in. to ^in. long ; and 

 from ^im to iin. broad; imbricated, roundish, somewhat pointed, 

 wholly without resin ; and altogether like those of a pinaster in mini- 

 ature. Cones (Jig. 2111.) from 2^in. to 3 in. in length ; and from li in. 

 to H in. in breadth; invariably turned downwards, so as to form 

 an acute angle with the stem. Footstalks of the cones from a in. 

 to f in. in length. Scale (fig. 21 12. a) from 1£ in. to H in. long, and 

 fin. broad. Seed, without the wing (<:•), from £in. to fin. in length, 

 and -gr in. in breadth ; with the wing (b), from I in. to 1A in. in length. 

 Cotyledons about 7. The tree flowers, in the climate of London, 

 about the end of May or the beginning of June. 2110 



Varieties. None of these are verj' distinct. P. brutia, judging from the 

 young plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden, would appear to 

 belong to P. halepensis, from the leaves and buds ; but, as the cones in 

 Mr. Lambert's figure are sessile, produced in clusters, and stand out 

 horizontally, it seems rather to approach P. Pinaster; and we shall there- 

 fore give it as a doubtful species in a future page. Two trees of P. 

 halepensis in the Horticultural Society's Garden have borne cones, and 

 those of one tree are considerably smaller than those of the other; and 

 this is the only variety of the existence of which we are certain from 



