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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXIII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1915. No. 5. 
PINUS EXCELSA. 
A MONG all the pines, Pinus ex- 
celsa, Himalayan or Bhotan 
Pine stands out as the best to 
grow as a lawn specimen. There is 
something about it that makes it very 
distinct and refined, even in pinecoun- 
tries where they are the commonest 
tree it is sufficiently different to at¬ 
tract attention and earn for itself pride 
of position on the lawn. 
Botanically it comes very close to 
our own native Pinus strobus being 
one of the five-leaved group. It is also 
somewhat similar in appearance to 
that beautiful but common kind. The 
main difference being in the long, slen¬ 
der leaves which gives it a graceful, 
pendulous appearance. The upper 
branches as shown in the accompany¬ 
ing illustration have an upward ten¬ 
dency, while the lower ones are droop¬ 
ing, this is characteristic. 
In its native habitat in northern 
India, it attains the height of 150 feet 
and doubtless forms a clean trunk 
being an important timber tree. Every 
specimen the writer has seen in this 
country and Europe up to 50 feet was 
clothed with branches to the ground, 
which makes them especially desir¬ 
able as solitaires on a large lawn. 
It is very fast growing, faster if 
anything than the white pine and for 
•this reason the young plants in the 
nursery are apt to look very thin, the 
internodes between the whirls of 
branches are apt to be as much as two 
feet. Frequent transplanting and 
judicious pruning will correct this ten¬ 
dency while in the nursery rows when 
they are planted in the position where 
they are to stay they are best left to 
their own natural development, for 
barring accidents such as a broken 
leader, its growth is beautifully sym¬ 
metrical. 
Although so closely allied to the 
Pinus excelsa 
