PINE TREE. 



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desserts in the winter season. Sir George Staunton says, 

 too, that they are much rehshed by the Chinese. They 

 were formerly used here as a medicine, but have been 

 superseded by the ahnond, of which alone emulsions are 

 now made. 



This Pine is a native of the south of Europe ; very 

 common in Italy, especially about Ravenna. 



The beautiful grove of Pines on Hampstead Heath is 

 said to have been raised from seeds of this species, brought 

 from Ravenna ; but if that be the case, the cones vary 

 considerably, from the diiFerence of soil or chmate ; they 

 bear no comparison with the cones growing in Italy. 

 The following is a beautiful description of the Ravenna 

 Pine: 



Various the trees and passing foliage there, — 



Wild pear^ and oak, and dusky juniper, 



With briony between in trails of white. 



And ivy, and the suckle's streaky light. 



And moss warm gleaming with a sudden mark. 



Like flings of sunshine left upon the bark. 



And still the pine long-haired, and dark, and tall. 



In lordly right, predominant o'er all. 



Much they admire that old religious tree 

 With shaft above the rest up-shooting free. 

 And shaking, when its dark locks feel the wind, 

 Its wealthy fruit with rough Mosaic rind." 



Leigh Hunt. 



The Siberian Stone Pine, Pinus cemhra, is lofty and 

 straight ; the leaves are very like those of the Pinus 

 pinea, but the cones are longer, and their scales looser. 

 It grows higher up the Alps than any other Pine, even 

 higher than the larch will grow. The timber of this tree 



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