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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
habit as it grows, but makes a conical and very graceful tree. 
The foliage is short, light yellowish green, and so unlike any 
other variety that it is extremely valuable even in grounds of 
quite limited extent. It is perfectly hardy. 
The Scotch Pine. Pinus sylvestris . — The Scotch Pine is 
perhaps one of the most rapid growers among pines, and is also 
very easy of management, transplanting with rarely a failure, 
and growing freely in almost any soil or situation. While 
young, it forms a pretty compact tree ; but as it acquires age, 
the lower limbs sway toward the ground, giving it rather a 
picturesque than beautiful appearance. The low price at which 
trees of it have been sold, together with its easy and rapid 
growth, have induced its planting, until we confess to its 
having become to us wearisome. It may be sparingly intro- 
duced in the formation of groups or masses ; and for picturesque 
distant views, and for belts or masses for breaking the force of 
storms and wind, it is very desirable ; but as a single tree, or for 
groups in small grounds, we prefer to leave it out. 
The Corsican Pine. Pinus larico . — The Corsican Pine is a 
variety between the Scotch and Austrian — with the general 
habit of growth of the Scotch, perhaps not as much sway to its 
branches as it grows old — leaves somewhat longer than the 
Scotch, but not as long or as dark a green as the Austrian, more 
yellowish. It transplants and grows with the same facility as 
the Scotch, and is desirable as a variety and to form groups or 
masses with that or other varieties. 
The Bentham Pine. Pinus Benthamiana. — The Bentham 
Pine is comparatively of recent introduction, and where spread- 
ing stateliness of character is wanted, either in a single tree or 
group, that or the Heavy Wooded Pine — Pinus ponderosa — pro- 
mise to supply the object. It is of rapid growth, with dark 
green foliage, long leaves in tufts, but instead of being com- 
pact, it is open, and stately and majestic in form. We should 
