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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
done; and it is on the clay-date and old red fanddone that the plants of this tree have made the molt rapid 
progrefs. Loudon mentions that almod all the plants diftributed by the Society from the feed fent by 
Douglas died at about five or fix years old. Young plants of this, and fome others of Douglaf’s pines, 
were fupplied by the Horticultural Society to the King of Pruffia, but we have not heard how they 
profpered. Perhaps .the mention of the circumftance may induce fome one, who has the opportunity, to 
make inquiries after them, and let the public know their fate. The fandy foil of Pruffia, we imagine, 
would be very unpropitious to this tree, as it is to mod: Coniferae. 
With the view of affifting in the identidcation of the young plant, we give figures, full dze, of a 
feeding. Fig. 5 fhews the general appearance, and dg. 6 a plan. We alfo append a drawing, on a fcale 
Fig. 6. 
Fig. 7. 
of one inch to the foot, of a fpecimen [dg. 7] growing in our nurfery grounds near Edinburgh. It was 
fown in 1854, an d is now (1862) 6 feet high. 
The feed fprings readily in this country, and may be fown at once in the open border, requiring no 
protection. It has proved to be perfectly hardy. It paffed the ted of the fevere winter of 1853-54 unhurt; 
and even the winter of 1860-61, which is the fevered which has occurred dnce it was introduced, and 
probably as fevere as any it is ever likely to encounter in this country, has done it no harm. 
No particular directions are required for its planting or treatment. 
Commercial Statijlics .—The price in 1840-42 was 50s. for plants 1 foot high; in 1850, for grafted 
plants, 7s. 6d. ; and in i860, for feedlings one year old, 2s. 6d.—two years old, and one and two years 
tranfplanted, 5s. to 7s. 6d. each. It is not to be found in great dock in the nurferies. 
