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very various, as may be fuppofed from the great range of its habitat; but good rich loam, fuch as 
is found well adapted for the Rofacece , will, in general, be found to anfwer for it. 
It has been widely although not very largely introduced into Europe. In the mufeum-colledtion 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, a mature cone of this tree is preferved, which was obtained, by 
Lieut.-Col. Wright Hudfon, from a tree at Simpferopol in the Crimea during the Crimean war, 
and prefented by him to the Society. If grown from the feeds introduced by Douglas, the climate 
of the Crimea mull be more favourable to its growth than that of Britain, as none of the trees grown 
in this country have yet produced fruit. M. Carriere, in his Traite General des Coniferes , fays that 
the trees which grow in the Jardin des Plantes, and which are the largefl; that he knew of, have pro¬ 
duced male catkins, but no cones. The height of the trees of which he fpeaks was, in 1858, about 
18 feet, and they were about thirteen years old. The tree above noticed, which was raifed at Chifwick 
from the feeds fent by Douglas, is now 40 feet high; one at Rollefton Hall, Staffordfhire, which was 
46 feet high, is mentioned by Mr Palmer as having been killed in i860. 
CommercialStatijlics .—Price of feeds in 1859, P er IOO > 4 os - » I ^65, 12s. to 25s. per 100. Young 
plants, in 1852, 6 to 12 inches, 7s. 6d. each; 12 to 18 inches, 10s. 6d.; 4 to 5 feet, 21s. In 1857, 
1 year feedlings, is. 6d. each; 2 years, 2s. 6d. ; fpecimen plants, 4 to 5 feet, 10s. to 15s. each. In 1861, 
1 year feedlings, 2s. 6d. each ; 6 to 9 inches, 3s. 6d. ; 18 inches to 2 feet, 7s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. In 1865, 
young plants, 6 to 12 inches, is. 6d. each ; 12 to 18 inches, 2s. 6d. each. 
