riNETUM DANICUM. 



88B 



A conservatory plant once bore a small cone in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Copenhagen. One winter I observed that a young plant 

 kept alive out of doors, but this species cannot be regarded as being 

 hardy in Denmark. 



A low tree, with a round, bushy appearance, from 15 to 20 feet 

 high, which produces the ' ' Carpathian balsam." It is found on the 

 sandy coasts of Tuscany, and the States of the Church, to the Avest of 

 the Apennines, on the hills of Genoa and Tuscany, frequently forming 

 forests with the Cluster Pine (Pinus Pinaster), and is cultivated 

 throughout the whole of Italy, from the foot of the Alps to Sicily, but 

 is not commonly found higher than 1,500 feet of elevation, except in 

 the South of Italy, where it grows at an elevation of 2,000 feet. It is 

 cultivated along all the shores of the Mediterranean, and in Greece 

 attains a height of 50 or 60 feet, where its seeds or nuts form an 

 extensive article of commerce, as well as in Italy and the South of 

 France. It forms a very ornamental small tree, with a rounded head, 

 and is celebrated for producing a fine efi'ect in the grounds of Italian 

 vHlas (G. Gordon, "The Pinetum," 1875). 



The seeds are edible ; the wood white, light, and full of resin. 



The Stone Pine being of a slow growth and rather tender constitu- 

 tion, few specimens of this Pine have attained to large dimensions in 

 Great Britain. As a timber tree in this country it is almost valueless, 

 but its extremely picturesque appearance renders it of great value for 

 ornamental planting. It afi"ords a striking contrast, from its stiff and 

 rounded head, to other trees of an open and informal mode of growth. 

 A native of both Europe and Africa. Introduced prior to 1548 (Trans. 

 Roy. Scot. Arb. Soc. xii. pt. 2). 



P. ponderosa, Dougl. in Loud. Arb. iv. 2243, f. 2132-37 ; Com- 

 panion Bot. Mag. ii. Ill ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 44, t. 15 ; Ant. Conif. 

 28, t. 8, f. 1 ; Lindl. in Penn. Cycl. xvii. 172 ; Link in Linna?a, 

 XV. 506 ; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 114, and ed. 2, ii. 173 ; Spach, Hist. Yeg. 

 xi. 389 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 163 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 30 ; Lindl. and 

 Gord. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 217 ; Carr. Tr. Conif. 340, and 

 ed. 2, 445 ; Gord. Pinet. 205, Suppl. 67, and ed. 2, 281 ; Newberry in 

 Pacific R.R. Pep. vi. 36, 90, t. 4, f. 12 ; Cooper in Smithsonian 

 Pep. 1858, 261, Pacific P.P. Pep. xii. (2), 27, 68, and Am. Nat. iii. 

 409 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 209, and Ives' Rep. 28 ; 

 Engelm. in Am. Journ. Sc. ser. 2, xxxiv. 332, Proc. Am. Phil. 

 Soc. ser. 2, xii. 209, Wheeler's Rep. vi. 261, Trans. St. Louis Acad, 

 iv. 181, and Bot. Calif, ii. 125 ; Lyall in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 142 ; 

 Bolander in Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 226, 317 ; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 71 ; Nelson, Pinac. 125 ; Hoopes, Evergreens, 117 ; Pari, 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 395 (excl. syn. Sinclairii) ; Watson in King's 

 Rep. V. 331, and PI. Wheeler, 17 ; Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 402 ; 

 Fowler in Gard. Chron. 1872, 1326 ; Koch, Dendr. ii. 2, 310 ; 

 Rothrock in PI. Wheeler, 28, 50, and Wheeler's Rep. vi. 9 ; Porter 



