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Pinus Hudsonica, Poiret. (P. Banksiana, Lamb.) 



Grey Pine. North America, up to 64° N. latitude. Height 

 of tree forty feet, in the cold north only a shrub. The wood 

 is light, tough, and easily worked. 



Pinus Jeffreyi, Murray. 



North California, on a sterile sandy soil. A noble Pine, 150 

 feet high; stem four feet thick. 



Pinus Jezoensis, Antoine and Endlicher. 



Japan. A large tree, with light, soft, smooth timber, used 

 principally for household utensils. 



Pinus Kaempferi, Lambert. 



Chinese Larch; also called Golden Pine. China. This is 

 the handsomest of all the Larches. It is of quick growth, 

 and attains a height of 150 feet. The leaves, which are of a 

 vivid green during spring and summer, turn to a golden 

 yellow in autumn. The wood is very hard and durable. 



Pinus Koraiensis, Siebold and Zuccarini. 



China and Japan. A handsome tree, thirty to forty feet high, 

 producing edible seeds. 



Pinus Lambertiana, Douglas.* 



Giant or Sugar Pine. North-West coast of America, mostly 

 in great altitudes. A lofty tree, of rapid growth, upwards of 

 300 feet high, with a straight naked stem of from twenty to 

 sixty feet in circumference. It thrives best in sandy soil, 

 and produces a soft, white, straight-grained wood, which for 

 inside work is esteemed above any other Pine in California, 

 and furnished in large quantities. The tree yields an abun- 

 dance of remarkably clear and pure resin, of sweet taste, 

 used instead of sugar by the natives. The cones are eighteen 

 inches long; the seeds are edible, and used as food by the 

 natives. Would come best to perfection in the humid regions 

 of our higher mountains. The timber serves also for flooring. 



Pinus LariciOj Poiret.* 



Corsican Pine. South Europe. It attains a height of 120 

 feet. The wood is white, towards the centre dark, very 

 resinous, coarse-grained, elastic and durable, and much es- 

 teemed for building, especially for waterworks. There are 

 three main varieties of this Pine, viz.: — P. L. Poiretiana, in 

 Italy; P. L. Austriaca, in Austria; P. L. Pallasiana, on the 

 borders of the Black Sea. The tree grows best in calcareous 

 soil, but also in poor sandy soil, where, however, the timber 

 is not so large nor so good. It yields all the products of P. 

 silvestris, but in greater quantities, being perhaps the most 

 resinous of all Pines. 



