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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
cloth, wholly clifappeared on the way, leaving the cloth faturated and {tiff with the melted refin. Its odour 
is pleafantly terebinthine. 
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Culture .—Mr Beardfley’s account of the native habitat of the tree gives a ufeful hint to cultivators 
in this country. If he is correct in hating it to occupy exclufively the calcareous dihrichs, we have an 
indication of the kind of foil moh adapted to it. No doubt Mr Lobb fays that it grows in haty rubbifh, 
but he does not tell us whether it is calcareous hate or not. Beardfley’s pohtive declaration on the fubjedt, 
coupled with what we know, aliunde , of the geological charadter of the dihridl, juhify us in hating that 
it does grow on the limehone formation, and hence the moh favourable dihridts for it in this country will 
probably be the chalk and lias. From its locality being fo far fouth as 36° N. lat., and Dr Coulter’s 
remark that it grows 1000 feet lower on the mountains than Pinus Coulteri , it is probably lefs hardy than 
the general run of Californian Pines. Still the fadts, that Hartweg found the cones froh-bitten, and that 
Beardfley nearly got froh-bitten himfelf, fufficiently fhew that it grows in a climate not free from a 
conhderable degree of cold. It has not yet been fairly tried in this country—only young and tender infant 
plants having been expofed to the rigour of our climate; and it would be as unreafonable to expedt them 
to have as great power of refilling fevere weather as full-grown trees have, as it would be for ourfelves to 
expedl as much endurance from an infant as a grown man. Rather expedting, therefore, to find the young 
plants deficient in hardinefs, we have been agreeably furprifecl to find that they have in fome places hood 
the fevere frohs of the winter of 1860-61 uninjured. Mr Palmer’s tables give, out of thirteen localities in 
England, three killed, two injured, and feven uninjured ; three in Scotland all uninjured, and two in Ire¬ 
land uninjured. At Borthwick Hall, hxteen miles fouth of Edinburgh, this was the cafe, although the 
ground is high (800 feet above the fea-level) and expofed. The fpring frohs are what are chiefly to be 
dreaded. It feems to hand any amount of cold when dormant, but, being an early grower, is liable to be 
injured by fpring frohs. Knowing this, precautions can be taken accordingly; at all events until the tree 
is well ehablifhed. 
It is, however, fo beautiful and interehing a Conifer, that we may reh affured that a fair trial will be 
given to it. Arboriculturists will not readily defpair of naturalihng fuch a gem; and at the very worh, 
fhould our climate prove too fevere for it, that of the fouth of France and the Pyrenees will furnifh 
conditions fuitable to its growth. 
It fhould be fown in a cold frame, and the young plants muh receive fome protection in the winter. 
Commercial Slati/lics .—Price in 1854, 6 inches high, 60s. each; in i860, 2-years’ feedlings, 15s. each; 
in 1862, 4-years’ feedlings, 15s. each; in 1864, plants from 6 to 12 inches, 15s. each. 
