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height of one hundred and fifty feet. It is sometimes called 
the Himalayan Weeping fir. Take it all in all, it has been the 
greatest favorite, and the most successful of all the new coni- 
fers — having a charmingly graceful habit, and soft, pretty glau- 
cous foliage. 
P. jilifolia (Thread-leaved pine). — Certainly this and P. 
patula are the most delicate and graceful of pines, 
' Skinneri exquisite for pot-culture, but too tender for any 
portion of this country, except the extreme South. 
It is a native of Guatemala, growing there to the height of 
forty to sixty feet, and resembling very much our Georgia pine 
(P. palustris ), with its long, beautiful, thready leaves, twelve to 
fourteen inches in length. 
P. Jiexilis (Contorted-branched pine). — This curious tree 
was found by Mr. Jeffery, at an elevation of nine thousand 
feet, and even fourteen thousand, in the neighborhood of 
Fraser’s river, where it makes a small tree of forty feet high, 
with a peculiarly flattened head ; and on the highest portion of 
the mountain, where it degenerates into a shrub of only three 
feet high, it becomes so compact that a person may walk on 
the top of it. It has not been introduced here yet, and hardly 
into England ; but from its being found so near the snow-line, 
we should suppose it might prove hardy. 
P. Fremontiana (Colonel Fremont’s pine). — This pine was 
Sy7l ' discovered by Col. Fremont, during his explor- 
P. monophyiia. ing expedition, when crossing the Sierra Nevada, 
growing on both sides, extending over the top 
of that great, snowy chain. It does not reach a size of over 
twenty feet, is very spreading in its habits, and will probably 
prove perfectly hardy in this country, since Col. Fremont often 
found the thermometer at two degrees below zero, at night, and 
four feet of snow where the tree grew. The seeds are eatable, 
and are quite an article of commerce with the Indians, in the 
season, under name of Nut pine. 
P. Gerardiana (Gerard’s pine).-— A slow-growing but vigor- 
ous variety from the mountain of Kunawar, in 
India, reaching the height of fifty feet, and 
forming a close, compact head ; the leaves of 
these are stiff', and of a bluish green. We had this 
Syn. 
P. Neoza. 
P. Aucklandii. 
P. Chilghosa. 
