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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Cultivation .—Although a native of a warmer clime, the Pinus Tczda does not refufe to grow, 
and even to thrive, in fome places in the fouth of England and north of France; but its fuccefs is excep¬ 
tional, a circumftance which, doubtlefs, is in part to be afcribed to improper foil and expofure—the barren 
fandy foil in which it abounds in its native country being comparatively rare in England. It is alfo no 
doubt due to this that it does well at Berlin, which is, generally fpeaking, from that very caufe, one of the 
molt unfavourable countries for coniferous plants. 
Loudon mentions the dimenfions of fpecimens at Syon House, Pains Hill, Whitton, Kew, and Drop- 
more, which, when he wrote (in 1837), were refpedtively 75 feet, 60 to 70 feet, 60 feet, 40 to 50 feet, and 
38 feet high. We give below a copy of Loudon’s figure of one of the Syon Houfe fpecimens. 
Mr Palmer’s tables {hew only one place where this fpecies was killed in the fevere winter of 1860-61, 
viz., at Highnam Court, in Gloucefterfhire; but as he had only reports from fix places, the ftatiftics are 
not of any great value. At the other five places mentioned, which were refpectively in Surrey, Bedford- 
fhire, Yorkfhire, and Fife, none of the plants of this fpecies were injured. 
Commercial Stati/lics .—Loudon mentions that as feeds are eafily procured from New York, the fpecies 
was not uncommon in London nurferies; and that it was more frequent in collections than moft other 
American plants. Whatever it may have been in his time, it is not fo now. Whether from frequent 
failure or want of appreciation of it, and a confequent bad market, it is by no means common in nurferies 
or collections; fo much fo that, as we have juft feen, there were only fix places in all Britain where Mr 
Palmer has obtained reports upon it. The present price of young plants under 18 inches high is from 
is. to is. 6d. each. 
Fig. 9. Pinus Tasda at Syon House, 75 feet high. Scale, 1 inch to 12 feet. 
