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mountains, it has not the appearance of being hardy, and we 
have not yet attempted to acclimatize it— having but two plants, 
which are quite beautiful enough for pot-culture to satisfy any- 
body. It would unquestionably grow at the South. We have- 
no reports about it, and know but one other specimen in the 
country, which is at Wellesley, near Boston, grown, like ours, 
in a pot. There are two other varieties, P.patula stricter, (more 
erect), and P. patula macrocarpa (much larger and taller) ; 
neither, we think, in this country. 
P. pinaster (Star or Cluster pine.) — This fine tree, which, 
when first introduced, and before thoroughly 
tested, promised to be the most artistic of pines 
(at least of available pines) — doing for our 
landscape what P. pinea (the Stone pine) did 
for Claude in the Italian Landscape — has, in 
our latitude, proved itself a little questiona- 
ble. It will certainly stand uninjured our ordinary winters ; 
but such uncommon ones as those of 1855-6, when, with us, 
the mercury sank to twenty degrees below zero, destroyed, at 
Wodenethe, specimens eighteen and twenty feet high, and this 
seems the experience of our returns. 
It is a most admirable tree for planting near the sea-shore, 
where it thrives wherever the climate will permit, and is to be 
found all along the Cornish road, bordering the Mediterranean, in 
Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Japan, New Holland. From 
the facility with which it flourishes near the sea, it received its 
synonym of maritima. No doubt P. pinaster Hamiltonii , 
Lemoniana , minor variegata , are varieties. 
P. ponderosa (the Heavy-wooded pine.)— -The hardiest , we 
should say, of all pines, not excepting our na- 
s y n • tive White pine, and the fastest grower. We have 
P. Craigeana. . r . . , & _ . . . . _ 
p. Beardsleyi. a specimen, sixteen to eighteen ieet high, raised 
from seed in less than seven years. This va- 
riety is gigantic in every sense of the word ; the new shoots 
are two or three times as thick as those of our White pine, and 
same with the buds. The annual leading shoots exceed a 
yard. It is from the Northwest coast of America and Califor- 
nia, where it grows one hundred feet high Although a strik- 
Syn. 
P. Nepalensis. 
P. maritima. 
P. Japonica, 
and 
seven others. 
