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slender and twisted, and from three to five inches long : while its cones 

 are very much larger, being from five to seven inches long, and from 

 two to four inches broad at the swell. It attains heights of from 

 eighty to a hundred feet ; is perfectly hardy for our climate ; its timber 

 is good ; and although not so beautiful as Insignis, yet it is a useful 

 ornamental Pine for the climate and soil of these islands. 

 PmUS RkGELEANA : Eegel's Pine, 



Discovered by Poezl, and described by Gordon as a riew^, nay, quite 

 new Pine from Mexico ; and all that I at present know is what these 

 gentlemen state about it, for it happens to be one of the ^'Xew 

 Mexican Pines," discovered and sent out by that impostor that I never 

 got hold of. 



PlTsfUS RkSINOSA: The Eesinous Pine. 



This is a quasi-species or American form of the Corsican pine, 

 producing good timber, but inferior in quality to the Corsican, and in 

 appearance it differs but little, unless in its more open and distantly 

 placed whorls of branches on the trunk stem, its somewhat smaller 

 cones, and its lighter or yellowish green leaves. It is not so good in 

 constitution, nor so accommodating as to soil and situation as the 

 Corsican Pine ; and should never be planted in preference to it, nor as 

 a profitable timber-tree in this country, while we have the prototype. 

 Being perfectly hardy it is useful enough as a variety in mixed orna- 

 mental plantations ; and its open-branched habit of growth is a good 

 contrast to the compact-branched forms of many of the Pines. 



Pmus Rigida: The Stiff-Leaved and Eigid-Coned Pine. 



This Pine has been more or less cultivated in Britain for the last 

 hundred years. It is a native of the United States of America. Its 

 leaves are generally three in a sheath, two and a half to five inches long, 

 stiff, broad, spreading, somewhat twisted, sharp-pointed, and light green 

 in colour ; the cones are from two to four inches long, and from one to 

 two inches broad at the swell, tapering to point and rounded at base, 

 on short footstalks, and very persistent, remaining on the tree for several 

 years; the branches very numerous but irregularly disposed ; the laterals 

 are also numerous, and all of them well clothed with foliage. It is of 

 no economic value for its timber, but a most useful, hardy, accommo- 

 dating, free-growing, precocious-coned, sturdy, medium-sized ornamental 

 pine ; for the soil and climate of Great Britain and Ireland well 

 adapted. 



Pmus RusSELLIANA: Duke of Bedford's Pine. 



Leaves generally five in a sheath, from six to nine inches long, 



