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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Properties and Ufes .—The Californian fettlers find the timber ferviceable for houfe purpofes ; but our 
knowledge of it is very limited, and no information has been obtained concerning its durability. 
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Culture. —A.good many plants are now to be found in this country, but none of any great fize. A 
fpecimen in Mr Gambier Parry’s Pinetum, at Highnam Court, Gloucefterfhire, was feventeen feet high in 
1859. It was killed by the feverity of the cold in i860. About a third of the plants of this fpecies re¬ 
ported on by Mr Palmer fuccumbed to that winter. His tables drew its effects on trees at nineteen 
places in England, at nine of which trees were killed, at two much injured, at three flightly injured, and 
at five uninjured. In Scotland, he reports from only three places : at one, plants were killed ; at another, 
injured; and at a third they were uninjured. In the only place noted in Ireland, they were not injured. 
His report on Mid-Lothian mentions that all the plants fent by Jeffrey were quite fafe, while thofe fent home 
by another collector had all died; a refult, no doubt, to be afcribed to J effrey having gathered the feeds 
which he fent, at the northern limits of the fpecies (Shafta); while the others were probably collected from 
its (more acceffible) fouthern limits, near Monterey. 
Commercial Statijlics .—Price of feedlings in 1851, 63s. each in pots. In 1852, 6 to 9 inches, 21s. 
each. In 1865, 12 to 18 inches, 3s. 6d. each ; 18 to 24 inches, 5s. 
