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- THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
(Pinus halepenfu) Aleppo-Pine, grow¬ 
ing thirty or forty feet high—the 
leaves longer, narrow, darker-green; 
and very fmall cones.—Native of 
Afia. (Dry foil.) 
(Pifius tatarica) Tartarian Pine, grow¬ 
ing fifty feet high—the leaves fhort, 
broader, lighter-green; and fmall 
cones.—Native of Tartary. ( Dry or 
any common foil.) 
(Pima rubra) Red or Common Scotch 
Pine, growing fixty feet high, or 
more—the leaves Ihorter, greyifh- 
green ; and fmallifh cones.—Native 
of Scotland, &c. (Dry or any com¬ 
mon foil, and rocky, gravelly, or any 
dry, barren grounds .) 
2. Pin us Pinea —(Pinea fativa) Cultivated, or 
Italian Stone Pine. 
A middling, erver-green tree, growing thirty or 
forty feet high—the leaves (long, bright-green) placed 
by pairs; the primordial, or fir|l leaves, fmgly, and 
ciliated on the edges; and large, turbinate or top- 
Ihape, clofe, hard cones, containing large, eatable 
feeds.—Native-of Italy, Spain, and fouth of France. 
( Any common foil.) 
With leaves by threes. 
3. Pin us Tee da —(Tasda) Torch, or Frankincenfe 
Pine of America. 
A large, ever-green tree, growing fixty orfeventy 
feet high — the leaves (long, narrow, light-green) 
placed by three together from the fame fheath; .and 
large, loofe cones.—Native of Virginia and Canada, 
in lwampy places. ( Moif or any common foil.) 
Varieties. — (Pinusrigida ) Rigid-coned Virginia Pine 
growing fixty or feventy feet high— 
the leaves long, fler.der, placed by 
threes; and ftiff, hard cones.—Na¬ 
tive of Virginia, &C. (Moif or any 
common foil.) 
(Pinus echinata) Echinated, or Prickly- 
coned American Pine, growing forty 
or fifty feet high—the leaves long, 
flender, placed by twos and threes 
together; and prickly feed-cones.— 
Native of North America. (Any 
V common foil, lAc.) 
(Pinuspalufris) Marfh, or Swamp Ame¬ 
rican Pine, growing-fifty feet high— 
the leaves long, deeper-green, placed 
by threes.—Native of North Ameri¬ 
ca. (Moif ftualion, or any common 
foil.) 
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With leaves by fares. 
4. PinCg Strobits —(Strobus) New England, or 
Weymouth Pine. 
A moft lofty, ever-green tree, growing feventy or 
eighty, to an hundred feet high—the item having 
a fmooth bark; leaves (longefi, fender, light -green) 
placed by fives from the fame point or fheath, the 
margins rough; and long, flender, loofe, pendulous 
cones.—Native of Virginia and Canada; firft culti¬ 
vated in England, by Lord Weymouth, hence com¬ 
monly called the Weymouth Pine, a moll beautiful 
•tree. ( Any common foil and ft nation.) 
5. Pinus Cemir a —(Cembra) or Mountain Siberian 
Stone Pine. 
A large, ever-.green tree, growing thirty, to forty 
or fifty feet high—the leaves (fmall, ft of or br if ly, 
deeper-green) placed by fives, very fmooth ; and with 
largilh, erett cones, the feeds or nuts thereof eata¬ 
ble and falutary.—Native of the mountains of Siberia, 
Switzerland, Valefia, Baldi, &c. (Dry, or any com¬ 
mon foil, l 3 c.) .-j 
2. Fir Kinds (ABIES.) 
Diftinguifhable from the Pine Trees, by the leaves 
growing fingly, and thickly placed, but all diflinft 
at the bafe; and with feed-cones, from an inch or 
two, to fix or eight inches long. 
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Leaves placedfngly. 
6. Pinus Abies —(Abies) Common Spruce or Nor¬ 
way Fir. 
A large, ever-green tree, growing fixty or feventy 
feet high, or more—the leaves (fmall, dark-green) 
awl-fhape, pointed, ranged two ways, fmooth, and 
placed fingly; and long, pendulous cones,-— Native 
of Norway, other northern parts of Europe, and of 
Afia. (Any common foil.) 
Varieties .—Red Norway Fir. 
White Norway Fir. 
Long-coned Cornifli Fir. 
7. Pisu? 
