EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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Lambertiana , in honor of that distinguished botanist, A. B. 
Lambert, Esq., of London, the author of a superb work on 
this genus of trees. It is undoubtedly one of the finest 
evergreens in the world, averaging from 100 to 200 feet in 
height. Its discoverer, Mr. Douglass, the indefatigable 
collector of the Horticultural Society of London, measured 
one of these trees that had blown down, which was two 
hundred and fifteen feet in length, and fifty-seven feet nine 
inches in circumference, at three feet from the root ; while 
at one hundred and thirty-four feet from the root, it was 
seventeen feet five inches in girth. This, it is stated, is by 
no means the maximum height of the species. The cones 
of the Lambert Pine measure sixteen inches in length ; and 
the seeds are eaten by the natives of those regions, either 
roasted or made into cakes, after being pounded. The other 
species found by Mr. Douglass grow naturally in the 
mountain valleys of the western coast, and several of them, 
as the Pinus grandis and nobilis, are almost as lofty as 
the foregoing sort ; while Pinus monticola and P. Sabi- 
niana are highly beautiful in their forms and elegant in 
foliage. The seeds of nearly all these sorts were first sent 
to the garden of the London Horticultural Society, where 
many of the young trees are now growing ; and we hope 
that they will soon be introduced into our plantations, 
which they are so admirably calculated, by their elegant 
foliage and stupendous magnitude, to adorn. 
The European Pines next deserve our attention. The 
most common species in the north of Europe is the Scotch 
Pine (P. sylvestris), a dark, tall, evergreen tree, with bluish 
foliage, of 80 feet in height, which furnishes most of the 
deal timber of Europe. It is one of the most rapid of all 
the Pines in its growth, even on poor soils, and is therefore 
