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much less useful or beautiful tree in this country than its prototype 

 Pinea. 



PiNUS LONGIFOLIA : The Long-Leaved Pine. 



This is an Indian, the Sanscrit word tan, thin, or slender, and tantu, 

 thread; hence their " Tansa,'' or ^^JSTeedle Tree;" its leaves being 

 from nine to fifteen inches long, generally three in a sheath, slender, 

 and needle-like, bright glossy green in colour : its cones are from four 

 to six inches long, and from a half to one-and-a-half inches broad at 

 swell, but ovate in form, and hard, smooth, and glossy on their surface. 

 It attains heights of from thirty to one hundred and thirty feet, and is 

 found so low as one thousand feet elevation in the Bhootan valleys ; 

 while it is found plentiful in the Punjab at two to four thousand feet ; 

 and in the forests of Almora and Kamoon it produces long-fibred, 

 compact, tough, straight, resinous, fragrant, and ruby-coloured timber ; 

 wdiile in the low altitudes and damp valleys it produces white, soft, 

 porous, and short, or twisted fibred wood : and at such a height as 

 Simla, or seven thousand feet elevation, it is reduced to a stunted 

 bush, and higher up it is but rarely found. From whatever habitat, it 

 is too tender and delicate for an ordinary English winter. 



PiNUS LophOSPERMA: The Crest-Seeded Pine. 



This is a quasi-species of Sahiniana, having its leaves generally five 

 in a sheath, and exceptionally three in a sheath ; while in Sabine's 

 Pine the leaves are generally three in a sheath, and exceptionally more. 

 Its cones are only from four to six inches long, and from two to four 

 inches broad ; while those of Sahiniana are from six to twelve inches 

 long, and from three to six inches broad. My experience of Loplios- 

 perma has been confined to a few dozen plants, some of which were 

 planted in good deep loam, some in sandy gravel, some in clay soils, 

 and some in sandy peat ; some of which were sheltered, some exposed, 

 but in warm situations, and some thoroughly exposed and in cold 

 localities ; but they have "grown small by degrees." So all that I can 

 say of it is, that it is a Southern Californian, related to Sahiniana ; 

 too delicate and fastidious for South Hants. — Anno Domini 1865. 



PiNUS LOUDONIANA : Loudon's Pine. 



A Mexican, and a quasi- Strohus, one of its beautiful, majestic, and 

 delicate forms ; too tender for an English winter, and too impatient of 

 cold for our latitudes. 



PiNUS MaGROGARPA: The Large-Coned Pine. 



This was introduced from California in 1832. As its name implies 

 its cones are larger than those of its congeners, being from ten to 



