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CHAPTER XIV. 



THE PINETUM. 



Eemarks on Special Collections of Trees. — TKe Piaetum. — Mate- 

 rials and Arrangement. — Enumeration of Species, with. Ob- 

 servations on the Groups. — Effects of Climate. — Soil. — Early 

 Cultivation of the Plants. — Planting of the Pinetixm. — Priming 

 of the Trees. — Decorative Treatment of the Pinetum. 



Many persons, whose limited domains do not permit, or 

 whose scientific zeal does not incite them to plant an 

 Arboretum, may yet be induced to form extensive col- 

 lections of a few particular genera. A botanist, for 

 example, may begiu by cultivating a few willows in 

 order to study their characters at his leisure, and he 

 may add to his stock till it sweUs out to a magnitude 

 approaching that magnificent Salicetum existing at Wo- 

 burn Abbey. So a lover of wild roses may extend his 

 attention and predilection to the whole of the species 

 and numerous varieties of that beautiful family; and 

 such has been the origin of many fine Rosaries. We 

 should like to see this method of special culture more 

 frequently exemplified. We have observed a long walk 

 in a pleasure-ground, skirted by a row of oaks, exhibiting 

 many diversified seminal varieties, if not distinct species. 



