780 Thiselton-Dyer —Morphological Notes. 
one of my keepers a day I was out shooting. The young tree was 
then about six inches long. The woodmen of this country say they 
never saw anything like it. 
I took the cone home and left it alone on a table, about the middle 
of February. It went on growing for a month, made a stem more 
than a foot long with three branches, and even threw out new shoots. 
About the end of March, although it was watered, it ceased to grow 
and dried, although the needles did not fall and preserve their colour. 
Will you kindly send your answer to Stowe House, Buckingham, 
where I shall be in a few weeks, as a letter sent to Spain would be too 
late to reach me. 
Believe me, &c., 
PHILIPPE COMTE DE PARIS. 
Stowe House, Buckingham, 
May 19, 1894. 
Dear Sir, 
I have just received your letter of yesterday, and I hasten to 
thank you for it. 
I send you at once the curious growth out of the cone of Pinus 
Pinea which I mentioned to you in my first letter. If it can be of 
any interest I shall be glad to present it to the Kew Museum. 
As I wrote to you, this cone was found on the ground in the Pinar 
de los Lobos on my estate of the Coto del Rey near Seville, by one of 
my keepers a day I was out shooting in February, 1894. The growth 
then was only six inches long and single, and quite fresh. I took it 
home and put it on a shelf in my study where it went on growing and 
dividing in branches for about a month. Then it suddenly stopped, 
dried up, and nothing could induce it to start again : very likely the 
stock of sap which the cone contained was exhausted. 
Believe me, &c., 
PHILIPPE COMTE DE PARIS. 
Stowe House, Buckingham, 
June 11, 1894. 
Dear Sir, 
I learn from your letter, with the greatest pleasure, that the 
botanical specimen which I had sent you a fortnight ago has 
been most fortunately discovered, and the foolish idea of the 
