climcnCons of a few of tlicfc trees in different parts of the eountiy. One at Walcot, in Shroplhire (the
Earl of Powifs), is 55 feet high and 60 or 70 years old, and the circumference of the trunk at four
feet from the ground is 7 feet 2 inchcs ; one at O.sbcrton 1 lall, Nottinghamlliire, was 50 feet in 1860 ;
at Caltlc Alhby, Northamptonlliivc, 40 feet; at Linton Park, Kent, upwards of 40 feet m 1862; at
Cultoquhcy, near Crieff, Peithfliire, 35 feet in 1S63, and 40 years old ; at Powis Cattle, in Wales, 31 feet,
and 40 years old ; at Sudburj- Hall, Derbylliirc, 22 feet, and 30 years old ; at Kinlet Bcwdley, 27 feet,
althnu.rh only about 20 years old (an exceptionally rapid growth) ; at Bloxliolm llali, Sleaford, 30 feet, and
30 yea's okl ; at Sudbrooke Holm, Lincoln, 23 fa, and 30 years. There are three fine fpecimens at
Balliarrow, near Coupar-Angus. ,
As already mentioned, there are varieties in the habit of this tree. M. Carrière mentions m lus
Treatife four horticultural varieties-one with «„1er fpread branches and more open foliage ; another, which
he calls Pi,,:, Cemém f,g„„ia of horticulturifts, and not the ff^s'i^a of Fifcher, which ,s the Mm,dJJ,„nc«
above mentioned. It is charaflerifed by very firort, fiender, irregtilar, fpreading, or bent branches, and
Ihort fiender leaves of unec,ual length. He fays that he faw a fpecimen at Dropmoie m 1853, a plant
more than twenty years old, which had only grown 35 centimetres in height. This was doubtlcfs the
fame plant which is mentioned by Loudon in 1837 as growing at Dropmore, and having then been
planted upwards of 20 years, and yet had not reached 6 inches in height Loudon prcfumed it to be
this variety. Carriiïre thinks not, and fays its origin is unknown. From perfonal examination we can
fay that the fpecimen in quellion is not a variet)- of this fpecies, but the true P. Ma„djh„r,ca. It is
ftill (in April 1866) only about s; inches in hei.ght, anil ]Mr Frolt, the garden fupermtcndent there.
Informs us that he has remembered it over forty years, and he docs not fee much difference in its fize
now from what it was at the time he firft faw it
Loudon fpcaks of another fpecimen in llopetoun G.artlens, near Edinburgh, faid to be upwards of
100 years old, and which in 1S36 mcafured ; feet 6 inchcs high. This may bc the variety m qucflion.
We have been favoured with fpecimens believed to be of this tree, and can fay that certainly none of them
belong to the P. Mandpnrica.
In a third • iety, \w hich Carrière calls Pim,s Ce,„bra ,„o„ophylla. the five leaves ftick together
eadily. It is faid to be delicate. Laitly,
iwing kind, which we have above referrcil
for the greater part of their length, or at le;ift do not feparate r
there is the flraight-gro
to at Mr Maxtone Graham's, which has the habit of a bufiiy
Irifii Yew. M- Carrière fpeaks of having feen a fpecimen 30
feet in height which mi,ght compare with the Lombardy Poplar
from its elongated form.
The feeds of this fpecies Ihould be fown as foon as poffible
after being gathered, or they will not come up until the following
IV ,6 year. When not obtained until they have become dry by
keeping, it is bettor to cover them with damp fand to remain over fummer, by which they efeape the
ravages of mice, birds, Sc. They fiiould be fown the following winter, or at leaft not later than March.
Fig. 15 IS a young plant in the feed-leaf, and fig 16 a diagram or plan of fame.
Co,„m,rcial Stafe/lics.—l'ncc of young plants in 1S38, 6 inches high, 5<l. each ; in 1840, feed fold at
,s. 6d per lb.; in 1850, the price of i-year fecdlings was 12s. per 1000, and 2-ye.irs 20s.; in 1860. i-year
feedlings 10s. 6d., imd 2-years 155. per 1000 ; the colt of feed at the latter date being 70s. per cwt
PINUS COULÏERI
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1 U S SABI.NA t-OULTKRI. Loudon, ^-«j.rf o/Tr.,,, p. 985 (,845).
-C,,«. A,,., t. 80; Lo.idan, Arior., U cit. fig
' ; Forbes, Piiel. H'eSura..
t. 25, =6; Acioine, Con.f. ,«. ul., L ,3 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, fig. >83^.84..
Specific foliis temis quat.mis vel elongatis sat fortibus (4-15 pollicares long);
vagmis (1 polhcare long.) laceris, ramulis crassis; pulvinis adpressis; strobilis oblongo-conicis (i pollicarc
long.) squamis cuneatis apophysi ancipiti m umbonem longissium (i pollicares long.), subulatum validum
uncmato-incurvum contmuo; seminibus ala quadruple brevioribus.
Habitat in California in montibus St, Lucia; (hit. 36° N,), altit. 3000-4000 pedes.
A large robust tree, reaching 80 or 100 feet in height, with wide-spreading branches open at the top,
Branchlets reach an inch thick; pulvini short, dccurrcnt, adprcssed. Leaves in threes, occasionally in
fours or fives, long, stout, coniprcissed, rounded on the outer side, flat on the inner side with a raised midrib,
sharp pointed, with the mucro a little to one side, with about eight stomata on the outer side of thu
leaf, and eight on the inner, disposed four on cach side of the midrib; the edges and the midrib finely
serrulated (fig. 1, a. b). The section is transversely oval with very thick hypoderm, resin canals numerous,
parenchymatous surrounded by strengthening cells; bundlc-shcaths of two rows of lignified cells; the
sheaths (fig. 2, a, b) as thick as a crow's quill, and i or i j inch in length at first; afterwards they be-
Q Q^
come corrugated .and short (the figure of them given by Loudon is wholly erroneous); the base is turned,
and h.as three stiff cartilaginous glabrous lanceolate sc.ales, one short one on cach side, and a long one more
than half an inch in length on the outside, all with fimbriated or lanceolate scales, which soon bre.ak off
and leave the impressioni, which become the phyllut and pulvini. Douglas says the scales are white, but
In those we have seen they were brown, darkest towards the apex of the branch. Buds rather short, pointed,
enclosed with adprcssed scalcs covered with gum Male c.atkins (fig 3) numerous, in clusters, surrounding
the