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Introduced into England in 1846 by the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, through their collector, Robert Fortune, and named after 

 A. V. Bunge, who travelled as a botanist in Siberia and China. 



I have seen plants bearing cones in North-eastern France and 

 Middle Western Germany, and suppose it might be able to stand 

 Danish winters. We still have only young plants. 



The native habitat of this tree is far to the north of China, between 

 Pekin and the western hills, one of the coldest and most desolate- 

 looking districts in winter which an inhabited and cultivated country 

 can well be. In summer the country, although treeless, is not without 

 vegetation. Its plains are covered with crops of a kind of millet — 

 a tall Sorghum, from six to nine feet high, with a hard stem as 

 thick as a man's thumb, which in autumn is cut about knee-high, 

 and which did infinite damage to the legs of the cavalry horses in the 

 Pekin war — and the gardens and neighbourhood of the houses of the 

 inhabitants are gay with flowers and shrubs. But in winter all is 

 changed ; the crops being cut doAvn, the plains are one extensive 

 stubble ; not a plant nor a tree to break the uniform desolate sameness 

 is to be seen as far as the eye can reach, all the shrubs and plants 

 having disappeared. Where they can have gone to at first appears 

 inexplicable ; but on inquiry it turns out that they have been taken 

 up and carried in pots into outhouses, into cellars and holes under- 

 ground, and wherever shelter can be obtained from the severity of the 

 coming storm, which would otherwise kill them all. The hardiest 

 evergreen cannot, unprotected, stand that piercing climate. Passing 

 through these inhospitable regions to the mountains to the west, Mr. 

 Fortune first met with this Pine in its native country and full-grown. 

 In the south he had often seen small plants in pots, and knew the tree 

 perfectly ; but when he saw the strange aspect of the tree with its 

 white leaves, he naturally rejoiced at the discovery of a new species. 

 It was only when he came up to it that he found it was an old 

 acquaintance. Being almost confined to cemeteries, and in such a 

 treeless country, its lofty, white, many-pillared columns, so asso- 

 ciated, formed an impressive and striking object (Pinet. Brit.). 



P. eanariensis, Chr. Smith in Buch. Beschreib. der Canar. Ins. 

 159 ; Be Cand. Plant. Rar. Hort. Genev. i. t. 1, 2 ; Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2, 

 i. 45, t. 28 ; Loud. Arbor. Brit. iv. 2261, f. 2162-2166, and Encycl. 

 of Trees, 994, f. 1861-64 ; Pinet. Woburn. 57, t. 21 ; Antoine, Conif. 

 33, t. 15 ; Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. xi. 393 ; Link in Linntea, xv. 

 508 ; Webb and Berth. Flor. Canar. Geograph. Bot. 21, 148 ; 

 Phytogr. Canar. sect. iii. 280 ; Miscell. PI. 42, 43 ; Endl. Syn. 

 Conif. 165 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 217 ; Knight, 

 Syn. Conif. 30 ; Carr. Tr. Gen. des Conif. 348 ; Gord. Pinet. ed. 1, 

 191, and ed. 2, 264 ; Henk. and Hochst. Syn. der Nadelh. 80 ; 

 J. E. Nelson, Pinac. 106 ; Beissn. Nadelh. 251. 



P. eanariensis, a large tree, growing 60 to 70 feet high, is a 



