NATIONAL ARBORETUM AND PINETUM. 



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coast, the United States might boast a pinetum more 

 comprehensive in variety, and imposing in character, 

 than any country on the globe. In a central position, 

 with a variety of soil, and under skillful management, 

 it could embrace the evergreens of almost every known 

 land. Our general government can do nothing better 

 to advance our progress in vegetable physiology, than 

 by its authority, and under a liberal appropriation, to 

 establish a National arboretum, and pinetum, near 

 "Washington, which shall be creditable to its munifi- 

 cence, and show the vast forest wealth which our 

 country may contain. It would be a work of enduring 

 beauty and usefulness, as creditable to the wisdom of 

 our national legislature as indicative of the increasing 

 good taste of the people.-— Ed. 



