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gathered, giving a grateful fragrancy of the resin : The fruit is ripe in ch 

 September. But after all, for a perfecter account, the true and genuine 

 Fir-tree is a noble, upright tree from the ground, smooth and even to the 

 eruption of the branches, which they call the sapinum, and thence tapering 

 to the summit of the fusterna : The arms and branches, with Yew-like 

 leaves, grow from the stem opposite to one another, seriatim to the top. 



(quite so valuable as the other sorts. The colour is not the same in all trees; some exhibiting 

 their timber of a very white colour; others again are yellovi^er, and smell stronger of the 

 turpentine. Martial represents it as dangerous to stand under this species of Pine, on ac- 

 count of the magnitude of its cones : 



iPoma sumus Cybeles ; procul hinc discede, viator, 



Ne cadat in miserum nostra ruina caput. Lib. xiii. Ep. 25. 



4. PINUS CtmdaJ foliis trinis. Lin. Sp. PI. 1419. Pinus Virginiana tenuifolia tripilis 

 s. ternis plerumque ex uno foliculo setis, strobilis majoribus. Pluk. Aim. 297- Virginian 

 Pine-tree, with three narrow leaves in each sheath, and larger cones. The sivamp pine-tree. 



This is a very large growing tree, and is highly proper, as its name imports, to be planted in 

 moist places. The leaves are long, and of a delightful green colour ; three issue out of each 

 sheath, and adorn the younger branches in great plenty. Its propagation is the same as the 

 Weymouth Pine; and the planting out and after-management is exactly similar. It will 

 grow on upland and dry grounds ; but it chiefly delights in moist places. 



is. PINUS fcEMBRAj foliis quinis laevibus. Lin. Sp. PI. 1419- Laryx setnpervirens, 

 foliis quinis, nucleis edulibus. Breyn. E. N. C. Cent. 7. Obs. 2. Pinus Sylvestris Cembra. 

 Cam. Epit. 42. The cembra pine. 



The Cembra Pine is a fine tree ; the leaves are very beautiful, being of a lighter green than most 

 of the Pines, and are produced five in a sheath. They are long and narrow ; and as they 

 closely ornament the branches all round, they render the tree on that account very desirable. 

 The cones also have a good effect ; for they are larger than those of the Pinaster, and the 

 squamoe are beautifully arranged. This tree is a native of the Alps, and is well described by 

 Mr. Harte, in his elegant Essays in Husbandry, under the title of Aphernousli Pine. He 

 considers it as a tree likely to thrive with great advantage on our bleak, barren, rocky, and 

 mountainous lands ; even near the sea, and in north or north-east aspects, where something 

 of this hardy kind is much wanted. The timber is large, and has many uses, especially 

 within doors or under cover. The bark of the trunk is not reddish like the bark of the Pine, 

 but of a white cast like that of the Fir, The shell which incloses the kernel is easily cracked, 

 and the kernels are covered with a brown skin which peels off. They are about the size of 

 a common pea, triangular, like buck-wheat, and white as a blanclied almond, of an 

 oily, agreeable taste, but leaving in the mouth that small degree of asperity which is peculiar 

 to wild fruits, and not Unpleasing. These kernels sometimes make apart in a Swiss desert. 

 Wainscotting, flooring, and other joiners' work, made with the planks of the Aphcrnousli, 

 are of a finer grain, and more beautifully variegated than deal, and the smell of the wood 

 is more agreeable. From this tree is extracted a white odoriferous resin. On this occa- 



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