THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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used for torches and candles. The wood is so hard, as tc 
resist the plane. The tree is too tender for the Middle States, 
but would doubtless succeed south of Virginia. 
P. Lindleyana (Dr. Lindley’s pine). — This variety, often con- 
g y7l ' founded with Montezuma?, and as such, imported 
p. Montezumae. by us SO me year or so ago, is really quite dis- 
tinct, and is a robust, bushy looking tree of forty feet ; found 
near the “ Sumate,” on the mountains of Mexico. It will, no 
doubt, prove hardy, coming from so high an elevation. We do 
not know that it has as yet been tried, nor do we think it very 
desirable, except in very full collections. 
P. longifolia (the Long-leaved pine). — This is one of the 
Syn. class of exquisite pines, of which P. jilifolia, 
P. serenagensis. patula , Ganariensis , and even Australis are also 
representatives. They are all, except Australis (Palustris), too 
tender even for the climate of Great Britain, and will not of 
course do at all here, except in Georgia, the Carolinas, and our 
Southern States, where no greater addition, to ornamental plan- 
tations can be made ; they are charming for pot-culture with 
us, which is the only way they grow them in England gene- 
rally. The timber of Longifolia is excellent, and full of resin, 
which is another recommendation for the South. The foliage 
is of an exquisite light green, and the leaves, twelve to fourteen 
inches long, delicate and thready. 
It comes from the lower ranges of the Himmalayan moun- 
tains, from Bootan to Affghan, growing forty to one hundred 
feet high, with a peculiar spiral arrangement of bark and fibre, 
like a cork-screw. 
The chips are used in India for candles, and are called 
“ Chamsing” (night lights). According to Dr. Hooker, ink is 
made in Sikkin from the charcoal of the burnt leaves mixed 
with water. It is also remarkable for its fragrance. 
P. macrocar pa (Dr. Coulter’s pine). — This is a grand tree, 
which we have had several years under each of 
P. Babiniana, ^ ie a b° ve names ; though now we believe culti- 
p. macrocarpa. vators have settled down upon macrocarpa and 
Goulteri, as the proper ones. Our best specimens would have 
been eight to ten feet high, having worked through the winters 
of ’55 and '56, with very trifling injury, when, unfortunately, 
