THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— Octoiseh 7, IsOO. 
PINUS GORDON IAN A. 
11 
(Mr, Gordon’s Tine.) 
Received from Mr. Hortweg, who found it 
on tlio Cerro de San Juan, or Saddle Moun¬ 
tain, near Tepic, in Mexico, attaining a 
height of sixty 01 ; eighty feet. 
Leaves in fives, sixteen inches in length on 
the wild specimens, rather slender, trique¬ 
trous, very dense, light green, and longer than 
any of the other kinds; sheaths persistent, 
about one inch and a quarter in length, rather 
rough and scaly; seed-leaves on the young 
plants mostly seven in number, and rather 
short; branches rather numerous, regular, 
slightly elevated at the points, and not very 
robust; buds very scaly, non-resinous, and of 
a moderate size ; male flowers rather large, in 
dense clusters, and very numerous; cones 
pendulous, mostly solitary, slightly curved, 
and tapering regularly from near the base to 
the point, from four to five inches in length, 
and one and a half broad near the base, with 
fourteen or fifteen rows of scales ; scales half 
an inch broad, slightly elevated, particularly 
those about the middle and towards the 
points, while those next the base are nearly 
Hat and much smaller; the cones are quite 
destitute of resin, and on footstalks about 
half an inch in length; seeds small, angular, 
with rather narrow wings, about one inch 
and a quarter in length. 
This handsome Tine has the longest and 
finest foliage of any kind yet introduced, and 
is called by the natives “ Ocote liembra," or 
female Pine. Mr. llartweg, who discovered 
and named it in honour of Mr. Gordon, super¬ 
intendent of the Horticultural Society’s Gar¬ 
den, states that it is not frequently met with 
on the colder parts of the Cerro de San -Juan, 
and is likely to be hardy.— (Horticultural So¬ 
ciety's Journal.) 
NOTES FROM PARTS. 
Ax the Versailles Exhibition there was 
almost nothing in the way of what we call 
stove and greenhouse plants. Some fine 
young fruit-trees in pots were shown by M. 
Deseine, of Bougival. Many of these were 
loaded with fruit, but M. Deseine’s object 
was evidently to show the manner of training 
the branches. The trees were chiefly Pears, 
and measured from six to ten feet high. 
Pine-apples were shown by several persons. 
The sorts were Smooth - leaved Cayenne, 
Mont Serrat, and Trinity. M. Lebroy had a 
variety called Comte de Paris, not unlike the 
Queen. M. Boyer showed a good mixed col¬ 
lection, comprising Peaches, Grapes, Nec¬ 
tarines, Pears, and Apples. On the whole, I never saw so 
many Pine-apples at any Exhibition here; but those which 
I have noticed were of moderate weight, and only a limited 
number of them were quite ripe. In addition to the 
flowers and fruit there were two or three collections of 
vegetables, including Melons and Gourds. The Exhibition 
was also set off with a considerable number of the large 
Orange-trees belonging to the place, and with these were 
several standards of Viburnum tinus, having heads fully 
five feet through. 
I noticed, in a former communication, that the white 
Poplar was rare among the trees growing within the limits 
of the French capital, but I ought to observe that it is 
plentiful enough in the environs. 
The island of St. Ouen, for instance, about a mile beyond 
the fortifications, is full of it; and, in addition to those 
which I cited as growing in Paris, there is one in a small 
private garden in the Rue St. Lazare, which attracts the 
Pinus Gordoniaua. 
notice and admiration of everybody for its great height and 
breadth. It is, indeed, a magnificent tree. 
Within the last eight or ten days several articles by M. 
Alfred Delvau on the Trees of Paris have appeared in one 
of the daily papers. 
M. Delvau is somewhat abstruse and even rambling in his 
style; but'tho object of his observations appears to be to 
increase the number of trees and gardens in the capital, not 
only for embellishing the streets and houses, but, by purify¬ 
ing the atmosphere, to promote the health of the people. 
He states that the climate of Paris has been unfavourably 
modified since the destruction of the woods and forests 
which in former times surrounded the capital, forming, as it 
were, a ceinlure sanituire, by stopping the winds and ab¬ 
sorbing the mists. He believes that the present inhabitants 
are thus deprived of the advantages which their ancestors 
enjoyed in this respect, and that, therefore, they are less 
energetic and robust than their fathers. But it is more than 
