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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
in fpread of branches. At Fenedon Hall, in Northamptonfhire, there was one 35 feet high, which was 
injured, but fubfequently recovered. In Scotland there is a tree at Keir, which was 30 feet in height 
in i860, and efcaped with flight injury. 
It would thus appear that it is reaching in this country a height greater, on the average, than its ordi¬ 
nary dimenfions in its native country. When fairly ftarted it grows faff. The tree at Nettlecombe, 
mentioned above, grew 7 feet in 1861 and 1862, and that at Osborne no lefs than 6 \ feet in 1851. 
A few inftances taken indifcriminately, where both the height and the age are noted, will give a fairer 
idea of its rate of growth, viz.:— 
Trees at 
Age. 
Height. 
Trees at 
Age. 
Height. 
Osborne, Ifle of Wight, 
20 
50 
Watcombe, Devonfhire, 
12 ? 
45 
Halfton Hall, Shropfhire, . 
25 
24 
Penrofe, Cornwall, 
17 
28 
Eaftnor Caftle, Herefordfhire, 
30 
46 
Roffdhu, Dumbartonfhire, 
18 
1 7 
Bi6lon, Devonfhire, .... 
30 
65 
Mount Shannon, Limerick, 
30 
65 
Madresfield Court, Worcefterfhire, 
O 
0 
4 
Cecil, Tyrone, .... 
7 
13 
Longleat, Wiltfhire, .... 
II ? 
12 
Glafflough, Monaghan, 
21 
43 
Redleaf, Kent, ..... 
21 
40 
Coote Park, Galway, 
14 
20 
Longwood, Hampfhire, 
24 
46 
Charlesfort, Meath, 
9 
22 
It feems to thrive in no place fo well as Cornwall. Mr Rogers of Penrofe, near Helfton in that 
county, reports of it to the Arboricultural Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, that it is exceed¬ 
ingly hardy there; refills wind and fevere temperatures, having never failed except in the winter of i860 ; 
bears the greateft expofure to which any plantation is fubjedted much better than any of the ufual fheltering 
Pines, as P. Auflriaca and P. Pinafter. He confders “ P. infignis to rank far above all other tried 
varieties as a nurfe in expofed kites near the fea in the fouth of England. It will not thrive in towns; 
likes pure country air, and prefers Cornwall even to Devonfhire. Specimens in the Royal Gardens 
at Kew fcarcely feem the fame variety, poffeffng very little of the frefh vigour of Cornifh fpecimens.” 
It has one difadvantage for diflridts which are not fo mild as Cornwall, and that is, that the buds pufh out 
exceedingly early in fpring. Mr Rogers has feen it with young fhoots 8 inches in length as early as 31st 
January (1858). It luxuriates in the moift air of that county, and appears almoft to keep growing during 
the whole year. 
Several of the larger trees have already produced cones in this country and in Ireland, fuch as thofe 
at Dropmore, and fome places in the vicinity, where it has fruited for feveral years; at Bicfon, at Glaff- 
lough, &c. At Porthquedden and Penrofe it has for the laft nine or ten years produced plenty of cones, 
from which many beds of feedlings have been raifed and planted out; fome of the young plants being now 
upwards of 12 feet high. In France, Carriere mentions that a fpecimen in the Jardin des Plantes pro¬ 
duced cones fo long ago as 1852, but the feeds were fferile. The male catkins which we have figured 
are drawn from a fpecimen taken from one of the trees flowering at Dropmore in 1865. 
It fuffers greatly from the Pine beetle, Hylurgus piniperda, fcarcely a tree of any fize in any dif- 
tricl efcaping from it; but although the Hylurgus feems to prefer it to all other trees, this is fomewhat 
compenfated by the fact that rabbits only attack it when they have not their greater favourites, P. A ujlriaca 
or P. Pinafter , to feed upon. 
Commercial Statiflics. —Price of feedlings in 1850, from 12 to 15 inches, 10s. 6d. each. In 1855, 
12 inches, 3s. 6d. each; and 7s. 6d., 15 to 18 inches; and well-grown plants 3 to 4 feet, 15s. to 25s. In 
i860, 1-year feedlings, 15s. per 100, and plants 15 to 18 inches, 2s. 6d. each. In 1866, feedlings 6 to 12 
inches, is. 6d. each; feeds, 5s. per 100. 
