THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 523 
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ing, it is not a handsome tree, the interval between the tiers of 
branches being so wide and the foliage so coarse and sparse, 
as to give it a thin and naked look ; besides which, it has 
an ugly habit of working the crown of the root out of ground, 
so as to give the tree the appearance of insecurity. Our tree, 
though eighteen feet high, and grown from seed where it stands, 
still requires, or seems to require, support. It is, of course, 
hardy all over the United States — at least, we doubt if any 
cold will affect it, though it might suffer from sun in the ex- 
treme South. 
P. Pallasiana Taurica (Taurian pine.) — A large tree, seventy 
to eighty feet high, found as yet only in the Crimea and along 
the coast of the Black Sea. We have specimens which have 
been out several years without protection ; perfectly hardy, 
though not very distinctive, as it resembles exceedingly our 
White pine. 
P. pumilis (the Mountain pine.) — A remarkably stiff, un- 
graceful dwarf, resembling the Scotch fir — in 
"p. Tartarian, some favorable situations, becoming a tree thirty 
&c * feet high, but generally only a low, straggling, 
slow-growing bush. It is very common on the Alps and the 
Carpathian Mountains ; perfectly hardy. 
P. pinea (Italian Stone pine). — No one, we think, who has 
s v n - ever been to Rome, will have forgotten the 
p'. domestica. Colonna pine, which, together with St. Peter’s, 
p. arctica, &c. divided one’s enthusiasm, at the first sight of the 
eternal city. This superb object, rising abruptly from the midst 
of the Colonna gardens, is so much associated in our early recol- 
lections, with all views of Rome, that now it is gone,* it would 
really seem as if we had lost an old friend. It is the great 
tree of Claude, and all the old masters, and no Italian garden 
would seem quite perfect without it. It is generally, we think, 
too tender for this climate, though suited well to the South. 
We have tried many times to acclimatize it ; but though it 
may struggle on for a few years, yet it never would form, pro- 
nably, the picturesque tree, so valuable for the composition of 
certain landscape effects. 
* Blown down in 1851. 
