Ill fprcad of brandies. At Penedon Hall, in Northamplonfliire, there was one 35 feet high, which was
injured, but fubfequently recovered. In Scotland there is a tree at Keir, which was 30 feet in height
in 1860, and cfcaj>ed with flight injur)'.
It would thus appear tliat it is reaching in this countrj' a height greater, on the average, than Its ordinary
dimenfions in its native country. \\'hen fairly ftarted it grows fafl. The tree at Nettlecombe,
mentioned above, grew 7 feet in 1861 and 1862, and that at Osborne no lefs than 61 feet in 1851.
A few inftanccs taken indifcriminately, where both the height and the age arc noted, will give a fairer
idea of its rate of growth, viz, :—
T1«MM AP LLDCLIT. I ACT. UNS"
Osbomc, Ifle of Wight: ao 50 I Watcora be, Devon (hire, . . . is ? 45
llaia^ii Hall. Shropfliire 25 24 ' Penrofe, Cornwall 17 28
Eaftnor Caaie, Herefordftire. , , . . 30 46 RolTdhu. Dumbartonlllire 18 17
Biclon, Devon/lliru , 30 65 Mount Shannon, Limerick 30 65
Madresfield Court, Worcelterfhire. . 3 4 Cecil, Tyrone . . 7 13
Longloat, Wiltfhire 11.' 12 Clafilough, Monaghan 21 43
Redleaf, Kent 21 40 Coote Part, Calway, . . 14 20
Longwood, Hamijlliire 24 45 . Charlesfort, Mcath, . . . . . g 22
It feems to thrive in no place fo well as Cornwall Mr Rogers of Penrofe, near Ilelflon in that
ct)unty, reports of it to the Arborlcultural Committee of the Royal I lorticultural Society-, that it is exceedingly
hardy there ; refifts wind and fevere temperatures, ha\'ing never failed exce[)t in the winter of 1860 ;
bears the greatefl expofure to which any plantation is fubjetted much better than any of the ufual fheltcrlng
Pines, as P. Anftr'uicu and P. Pimijier. He confiders " P. infignis to rank far above all other tried
varieties as a nurfe in expofed fîtes near tlic fea in the fouth of England. It will not thrive in towns;
likes pure country air, and prefers Cornw-all even to Devoniliirc, Specimens in the Royal Gardens
at Kew fcarcely feem the fame variety, poffeffing very little of the frclh vigour of Cornifli fpccimcns,"
It has one difadvantage for diftrii^s which are not fo miltl as Cornwall, and that is, that the buds puili out
exceedingly eady in fpring, Mr Rogers has feen it with young flioots 8 inches in length as early as 31st
January (1858). It luxuriates in the moifl air of that county, and appears almoil to keep growing during
the whole year.
Several of the larger trees have already produced cones in this countiy and in Ireland, fuch as thofe
at Dropmore, and fome places in the vicinity, where it has fruited for feveral years; at Biclon, at GlalTlough,
&C. At Porthtpiedden and Penrofe it has for the laft nine or ten years produced plenty of cones,
from which many beds of feedlings have been raifed and planted out ; fomc of the young plants being now
upwards of 12 feet high. In France, Carrière mentions that a fpecimen in the Jardin des Plantes produced
cones fo long ago as 1832, but the feeds were fterile. The male catkins which we have figured
are drawn from a fpecimen taken from one of the trees flowering at Dropmore in 1865,
It fulïers greatly from the Pine beetle, llylurgus piniperda, fcarcely a tree t)f any fize in any <liftrict
efcaping from it; but although the llylurgus feems to prefer it to all other trees, this is fomewhat
compenfated by the fact that rabbits only attack it when they have not their greater favourites, P. A ujlriaca
or /•". Pinaftcr, to feed upon.
Commercial Stalißics.—Price of feedlings in 1850. from 12 to 15 inche.s, los. 6d, each, In 1855,
12 inches, 3s, 6d, cach; and 7s- 6d,, 15 to 18 inches; and well-grown plants 3 to 4 feet, 15s, to 25s. In
i860. I-year feedlings, 15s, per 100, and plants 15 to 18 inches, 2S. 6d, cach. In 1866, feedlings 6 to 12
inches, is, 6d. each: feeds. 5s, per 100,