THE HEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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feet. Take it all in all, we do not know a finer or more avail- 
able evergreen. It grows in any soil and has a strong, ram- 
pant, healthy look, which is positively refreshing when sur- 
rounded by its more delicate companions, the half-hardy ones 
It is very rapid in its progress, and has a firm, stocky growth, 
retaining its fine green color during our hottest summers and 
coldest winters. In Austria it is very much esteemed for 
charcoal, and the wood is said to resist the alternations oi 
moisture and dryness better, even, than the Larch. By some, it 
is supposed to be only a variety of laricio. 
P. Banlcsiana (Sir Joseph Banks’ pine) — Is a stunted, 
scrubby, straggling bush, from five to ten feet 
P. Hudsonica. high ; in good soil it reaches, sometimes, fifteen 
feet. It is found in the most northern parts ol 
North America, in Maine, Nova Scotia, Labrador, &c., and is 
only valuable to complete a collection. 
P. JBeardsleyi . — We are inclined to think both these trees 
are identical, and are synonymous with P. jpon- 
^p'orai^eana derosa, though they are sold as distinct in the 
English nurseries, and in ours also. They belong 
to what are called the “ Long-leaved Californians,” such as 
Benthamiana, Ponderosa, Macrocarpa, &c., and when young, 
they resemble each other so closely that we must confess we 
are puzzled to tell them apart, and are not surprised at the con- 
fusion. Carriere, in his Historic General des Coniferes, makes 
Beardsleyi a distinct variety, but does not describe it, merely 
saying, it was introduced in seed in 1855, from North America; 
but Gordon, who seems the more thorough as well as the latest 
writer, regards them as synonyms of Ponderosa. In the 
absence of any more light, or until the trees get larger, so as 
to show the difference, if it exists, we shall adopt this classifi- 
cation, and refer our readers to our subsequent description of 
Ponderosa, for what may prove, presently, to answer for these 
trees. 
P. Benthamiana (Bentham’s pine). — This superb tree, said 
to be the grandest of the “ Long-leaved Califor- 
SinciairL nians,” was found by Mr. Hartweg, on the moun- 
tains of Vera Cruz, where he discovered specimens 
two hundred to two hundred and twenty feet high, with stems 
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