AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS. Chap. XXIII. 
trees were standing, like sentinels, one on each 
side of a grave. They were both covered with 
cones, and therefore were in a fit state for a 
critical examination of the species. But although 
almost unknown in Europe, the species is not 
new. It proved to be one already known under 
the name of Pinus Bungeana. I had formerly met 
with it in a young state in the country near 
Shanghae, and had already introduced it into 
England, although, until now, I had not the 
slightest idea of its extraordinary appearance 
when full grown. I would therefore advise those 
who have young plants of this curious tree in 
their collections to look carefully after them, as 
the species is doubtless perfectly hardy in our 
climate, and at some future day it will form a 
very remarkable object in our landscape. One 
of the trunks, which I measured at three feet from 
the ground, was 12 feet in circumference. 
The country through which I was now passing, 
although comparatively flat, was gradually getting 
a little higher and more undulating in its general 
appearance. It was the harvest-time for the 
summer crops of millet, Indian corn, and oily 
grain, and the farmers were busy in all the 
fields gathering the crops into their bams. As 
I walked during the greater part of my journey, 
and did not always confine myself to the high 
road, many were the amusing" adventures I met 
with by the way. Sometimes the simple villagers 
received me with a kind of vacant wondering 
