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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
dimenfions of a few of thefe trees in different parts of the country. One at Walcot, in Shropfhire (the 
Earl of Powif’s), is 55 feet high and 60 or 70 years old, and the circumference of the trunk at four 
feet from the ground is 7 feet 2 inches; one at Osberton Hall, Nottinghamfhire, was 50 feet in i860; 
at Caftle Afhby, Northamptonfhire, 40 feet; at Linton Park, Kent, upwards of 40 feet in 1862; at 
Cultoquhey, near Crieff, Perthfhire, 35 feet in 1863, and 40 years old ; at Powis Caftle, in Wales, 31 feet, 
and 40 years old; at Sudbury Hall, Derbyfhire, 22 feet, and 30 years old; at Kinlet Bewdley, 27 feet, 
although only about 20 years old (an exceptionally rapid growth); at Bloxholm Hall, Sleaford, 30 feet, and 
30 years old; at Sudbrooke Holm, Lincoln, 25 feet, and 30 years. There are three fine fpecimens at 
Balharrow, near Coupar-Angus. 
As already mentioned, there are varieties in the habit of this tree. M. Carriere mentions in his 
Treatife four horticultural varieties—one with wider fpread branches and more open foliage ; another, which 
he calls Pinns Cembrapygmcea of horticulturifts, and not the pygmcea of Lifcher, which is the Mandjhurica 
above mentioned. It is chara6lerifed by very fhort, flender, irregular, fpreading, or bent branches, and 
fhort flender leaves of unequal length. He fays that he faw a fpecimen at Dropmore in 1853, a plant 
more than twenty years old, which had only grown 35 centimetres in height. This was cloubtlefs the 
fame plant which is mentioned by Loudon in 1837 as growing at Dropmore, and having then been 
planted upwards of 20 years, and yet had not reached 6 inches in height. Loudon prefumed it to be 
this variety. Carriere thinks not, and fays its origin is unknown. Lrom perfonal examination we can 
fay that the fpecimen in queffion is not a variety of this fpecies, but the true P. Mandjhurica. It is 
ftill (in April 1866) only about 81 inches in height, and Mr Profi, the garden fuperintendent there, 
informs us that he has remembered it over forty years, and he does not fee much difference in its fize 
now from what it was at the time he firft faw it. 
Loudon fpeaks of another fpecimen in Hopetoun Gardens, near Edinburgh, faid to be upwards of 
100 years old, and which in 1836 meafured 5 feet 6 inches high. This may be the variety in queffion. 
We have been favoured with fpecimens believed to be of this tree, and can fay that certainly none of them 
belong to the P. Mandjhurica. 
In a third variety, which Carriere calls Pinns Cembra monophylla , the five leaves flick together 
for the greater part of their length, or at leaf! do not feparate readily. It is faid to be delicate. Laflly, 
there is the flraight-growing kind, which we have above referred 
to at Mr Maxtone Graham’s, which has the habit of a bufhy 
Irifh Yew. M. Carriere fpeaks of having feen a fpecimen 30 
feet in height which might compare with the Lombardy Poplar 
from its elongated form. 
The feeds of this fpecies fhould be fown as foon as poffible 
after being gathered, or they will not come up until the following 
year. When not obtained until they have become dry by 
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Fig. 16. 
keeping, it is better to cover them with damp fand to remain over fummer, by which they efcape the 
ravages of mice, birds, &c. They fhould be fown the following winter, or at leaf! not later than March. 
Pig. 15 is a young plant in the feed-leaf, and fig. 16 a diagram or plan of fame. 
Commercial Statijiics. —Price of young plants in 1838, 6 inches high, 9d. each; in 1840, feed fold at 
is. 6d. per lb.; in 1850, the price of i-year feedlings was 12s. per 1000, and 2-years 20s.; in 1866, i-year 
feedlings 10s. 6d., and 2-years 15s. per 1000 ; the coll of feed at the latter date being 70s. per cwt. 
