530 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
of the larger forms of mugho pine, but is entered on their catalogue 
simply as Finns uncinata erecta. It has the deepest pure green 
color we have ever seen in an evergreen, and as there grown, in 
rich, cultivated ground, there is a velvety depth in the shadings of 
its foliage that we have never seen surpassed. May this not be the 
Fig. 169. 
P\ m. uliginosa of Gordon ? The specimen which is given in the 
engraving is about eighteen feet high, and bids fair to greatly 
exceed this height at maturity. How much of the beauty of this 
specimen depends on the unusual fertility of the soil in which it 
grows, and how much on the innate character of the species, we 
cannot tell. Possibly in a common soil, the richness of its dark 
verdure might change to sombreness. 
The Mountain Pine. Pinus pumilio .—Described by Gordon 
as follows: “ Leaves in two’s, curved, short, stiff, thickly set on the 
branches, from two to two-and-a-half inches long, etc. Branches 
turned upwards and very numerous, forming a dense bush, with the 
