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and sends off massive spreading branches of great length. For 
several years the young tree produces short single leaves, but 
later leaves are five or six inches long, slender, and of a bright 
green tint, in pairs, united at their base by a pale sheath. These 
leaves endure for two or three years. The pollen-bearing flowers 
are crowded into a spike. The female flowers are about three- 
quarters of an inch long, composed of pale greenish scales. 
After fertilization, these grow to a length of four to six inches, 
of a rugged oval form and red-brown colour, ripening in the 
third year. The scales of these cones are somewhat wedge- 
shaped, with a stout rhomboid boss, which has a depression 
round the central protuberance. The seeds, which are eaten for 
dessert and preserved as sweetmeats in the countries where the 
Stone Pine is native, are enclosed in a bony shell, and it is from 
this circumstance that the tree gets its name. 
The Austrian Pine {Pinus larido). 
What is known as the Austrian Pine is a variety of the 
Corsican or Larch Pine, and its botanical name correctly set 
out is Finns laricio, var. austriaca. The name has reference to 
the fact that its chief home as an indigenous tree is in the 
southern provinces of the Austrian Empire. The range of the 
type and its varieties together includes Central and Southern 
Europe, and part of Western Asia. It is a comparatively recent 
addition to our sylva in both forms, for the type was introduced 
in 1759, in the belief that it was a maritime form of the Scots 
Pine, but the variety austriaca was first sent out by Lawson and 
Son, the Edinburgh nurserymen, in 1835. 
The typical species (Corsican Pine) is a slender tree of 
somewhat pyramidal form, growing to the height of 80 to 120 
feet. The Austrian Pine, though a large tree, is of smaller 
proportions — from 60 to 80 feet high - but with stouter and 
