524 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
dark green ” (Gordon). Found in Mexico at elevations nine thou¬ 
sand feet above the sea. Half-hardy, perhaps hardy. 
Pinon, or Nut Pine. P. edulis .—A small-sized, short-leaved 
mountain pine of California, which promises to be hardy, and may 
prove interesting. Height twenty-five to forty feet. 
The Heavy Wooded Pine. P. ponderosa. — A California 
tree of great size, and coarse, rapid growth. Branches in regular 
whorls, but twisted and tortuous, rising from the trunk at an angle 
less than a right angle, drooping towards the middle and rising at 
the ends. They are quite large and rope-like, and not being well 
concealed by leaves, except near the extremities, give the tree the 
appearance of a very bony frame illy clothed. It proves perfectly 
hardy at Rochester, where Ellwanger & Barry have a fine specimen 
thirty feet high and twenty feet in diameter across the branches. 
It is a curious, but far from a handsome tree. 
Jeffrey’s Pine. P. Jeffreyana .—One of the lofty pines of 
northern California, where it attains a height of one hundred and 
fifty feet. Not yet thoroughly tested on the Atlantic slope. Young 
specimens look like a cross between the Austrian and Pyrenean 
pines. The leaves are longer and warmer toned than those of the 
Austrian pine. 
Lambert’s Pine. P. Lambertiana .—This is another of the 
lofty trees of California. It resembles our white pine so much 
that common observers would suppose it the same. We have 
seen no quality that should cause it to be recommended for plant¬ 
ing ; our white pine being its equal or superior in all respects. 
The Mexican Fountain Pine. Pinus patula. —H. W. Sar¬ 
gent says of this: “ Of all the pines which we have seen, this is 
beyond measure the most graceful and charming, not only in its 
growth and habit, but in the nature, softness, and color of its 
leaves. It resembles a beautiful, delicate green fountain of spun 
glass, and has a parti-color like shot silk, which catches the sun- 
