very various, as may he fuppofed from the great range of its habitat ; but good rich loam, fucli as
is found well adapted for the Ro/acete, will, in general, be found to anfwer for it.
It has been widely although not very largely introduced into Europe. In the mufeum-collection
of the Royal Horticultural Societ>-, a mature cone of this tree is prcferved, which was obtained, by
Licut.-Col. Wright Hudfon, from a tree at Simpferopol in the Crimea during the Crimean war,
and prefented by him to the Society, If grown from the feeds introduced by Douglas, the climate
of the Crimea muft be more favourable to its growth than that of Britain, as none of the trees grown
in this country liave yet produced fruit, M. Carrière, in his Tmife General des Coniferes, fays that
the trees which grow in the Jardin des Plantes, and which are the largeft that he knew of, have produced
male catkins, but no cones. The height of the trees of which he fpeaks was, in 1858, about
rS feet, and they were about thirteen years old. The tree above noticed, which was raifed at Chifwick
from the feeds fent by Douglas, is now 40 feet high ; one at Rollefton I lall, Stafford (hi re, which was
46 feet high, is mentioned by Mr Palmer as having been killed in i860.
CemimercialStatijlics.—Price of feeds in iSjg.per 100,40s.; i2S- to 25s. per I
plants, in 1852, 6 to 12 inches, 7s. 6d- each; 12 to 18 inches, lOS. 6d,; 4 to 5 feet, 21s,
I year feedlings, is. 6d, each; 2 years, 2s, 6d,; fpecimen plants, 4 to 5 feet, los, to 15s, each,
1 year feedlings, 2s. 6d, each; 6 to 9 inchcs, 3s. 6d-; 18 inches to 2 feet, 7s, 6d, to los, 6d,
young plants, 6 to 12 inchcs, is. 6d, each ; 12 to 18 inches, 2S. 6d. each.
Young
In ,857.