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THE DOUGLAS AND LAMBERT 



PINES. 



I believe/' continued Mr. Longhurst, 

 we have taken some notice of the most noted 

 and useful of the pine family. I have^ how- 

 ever, read of, but not seen, two other sorts, 

 called the Douglas and the Lambert pines, 

 which may as well be referred to ; as, I sup- 

 pose, if they were natives of Europe, they 

 would be undoubted kings of the forest. Mr. 

 David Douglas was sent out by a Philoso- 

 phical Society of London, to discover and de- 

 scribe new plants on the west coast of North 

 America. He returned in the autumn of 1827j, 

 and brought with him a valuable addition to 



