CONIFERS. THE PINUS, OR PINE TREE. 
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Some writers have given a variety under 
the title of P. h. maritima, a plant which 
will be favourably noticed under the head of 
P. Pinaster minor, to which it evidently 
belongs. P. h. gemiensis, introduced by 
Captain Cook, is considered by Mr. Loudon 
to be identical with the species. 
Pinus bruttia, Tenore (Calabrian Pine). — 
Leavestwo, sixtonineincheslong, slender, pale 
green, wavy. Cones without footstalks, ovate, 
acute, very much crowded, with flattened 
scales. Buds ovate, without resin, half an 
inch long. 
A spreading tree of the middle size, not 
unlike the Aleppo Pine, but much hardier, 
and said to produce timber of excellent qua- 
lity. There are specimens at Kew, Drop- 
more, Hackney Arboretum, the Horticultural 
. Society's Garden, and at Chatsworth. Young 
plants have been raised by Mr. Lambert at 
Boyton, and distributed amongst his friends 
and the public Horticultural establishments 
of the country : but as yet little evidence has 
been adduced in regard to its suitableness to 
the climate of Britain. In Naples its wood 
is excellent ; and, at any rate, it is a most 
desirable species for ornament. 
Pinus pyrenaica, La Peyrouse (Pyrenean 
Pine). — Leaves two, long, clustered at the 
ends of the shoots and somewhat twisted or 
gathered around them, strong, upright, and of 
a bright green. Cones pointing horizontally, 
on strong footstalks, almost as thick as those 
of P. halepensis, ovate shaped, with scales 
round and truncate or bluntly pointed. 
The arboricultural world is indebted for 
this tree to Captain Cook, author of Sketches 
in Spain, a work peculiarly interesting to all 
those who have any love for the noble order 
of plants under consideration. It was intro- 
duced by him in 1834. He found it occupy- 
ing the highest range of the extensive forests 
of the Sierra de Segura in the southern dis- 
tricts of Spain, where it overtops P. halepen- 
sis, but not alone, being mingled with other 
pine trees in woods almost inaccessible from 
their extreme elevation. According to this 
gentleman the tree " is quite hardy, of quick 
growth, and will, from its noble appearance, 
the beauty of its form, and the clear transpa- 
rent colour of both the bark and foliage, be a 
vast acquisition to our park scenery. The 
timber is white and dry, being nearly without 
turpentine ; but the cones exude a most deli- 
cious balsamic odour. The wood was for- 
merly used by the Spanish government, in the 
arsenals of Carthagena and Cadiz, for the 
decks of ships ; for which purpose regular 
depots were kept in the Sierra de Segura ; 
and it was floated down to the respective 
ports by the rivers Segura and Quadalquiver. 
It is one of the species described in the book 
of Arab agriculture written by a Moor of 
Seville in 1200, and translated by Banqueri.' 
There are plants at Elvaston Castle, Chats- 
worth, Ballindalloch in Morayshire, and at 
Rozelle in Ayrshire, in which last place it is 
considered " a very compact and desirable 
ornamental pine, rather slow in growth." 
One of the finest specimens in England is said 
to be in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 
Pinus Banksiana, Lambert (Banks's, or 
Labrador Pine). — This was named in honour 
of Sir Joseph Banks, who sent the plant, or 
the seeds of it, to Mr. Lambert. Leaves two 
in a sheath, nearly 1| inch in length. Sheath 
of leaves short and ringed. Cones curiously 
twisted and recurved like small horns, persis- 
tent, that is, remaining on the trees for many 
years. They are very abundant, producing 
seeds of the size of the spruce fir. Buds are 
about I inch long, dotted with resin in large 
particles. The plant has a great many syno- 
nymes, by some of which it may be the more 
readily known : — The Scrub Pine, the Grey 
Pine, (from the grey cones which it bears,) 
the Hudson's Bay Pine, and the Pinus sylves- 
tris divaricata. 
This pine, in many respects, is valuable ; 
in others it is not so. It is to be prized for 
the singular, and in some instances, orna- 
mental character which it assumes, and be- 
cause it is so hardy that it may be introduced 
in almost every situation where the Scotch 
pine will thrive. The only exception to its 
hardiness, so far as the present writer knows, 
is to be found in an account of Coniferae 
recently introduced by Archibald Hamilton, 
Esq., Rozelle, Ayrshire, whose gardener thinks 
" the P. Banksiana will not suit this climate, 
either as a timber tree or an ornamental 
object. With us," he observes, "it resem- 
bles a stunted shrub rather than a hardy timber 
tree." The P. Banksiana is a native of 
America. In Nova Scotia it is called the 
Scrub Pine ; in Canada, the Grey Pine ; and 
in Halifax, the long-limbed Hudson's Bay 
Pine. Among the rocks of Labrador it is 
frequently met with of a height under ten 
feet ; and in some instances it assumes all the 
marks of old age and decrepitude when three 
feet high only. The handsomest tree in Eng- 
land is considered to be a specimen growing in 
the Pinetum at Dropmore ; and there are 
others in the Horticultural Society's Garden 
at Chiswick, and in the Hackney Nursery. It 
is a rather singular fact that in. Britain this 
tree grows with a rapidity and to a height not 
indicated by the species in its most favoured 
native habitats ; but it is to be feared that for 
mechanical purposes its wood will be on that 
account of less value. This pine is propa- 
gated by seeds sown in a mixture of peat and 
sand in the end of March, and covered to the 
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