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170 SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE
Pinus Fraseri, Pursli.
Double Balsam-Fir. On high mountains of Carolina and
Pennsylvania. This tree, which gets about twenty feet high,
yields with P. balsamea Canada-Balsam.
Pinus Gerardiana, Wallich.
Nepal Nut-Pine. In the north-eastern parts of the Himalaya
at an elevation of 1 0 ,0 0 0 to 1 2 ,0 0 0 feet, forming extensive
forests. The tree gets fifty feet high, with a comparatively
short stem, and produces very sweet edible seeds, also turpentine.
In reference to the nut-like seeds, the proverb prevails
at Kunawar—“ One tree a man’s life in winter.”
Pinus glabra, Walter.
Carolina. Allied to P. mitis. I t attains, according to
Chapman, a height of sixty feet. Porcher compares the
wood to that of P. Strobus.
Pinus grandis, Douglas.
Great Silver-Fir of North California. A splendid Fir, 200
feet high and upwards, p ’owing best in moist valleys of high
ranges; the wood is white and soft.
Pinus Griffitbii, Parlatore. (Larix GriffitJiii, J . Hooker and
Thomson).
The Himalayan Larch. Descends to 8000 feet and ascends
to 12,000 feet. Timber pale, soft, without distinct heartwood,
one of the most durable of all Fine-timbers (Stewart and
Brandis). P. Ledebourii, Endlicher, is tbe Siberian Larch,
Pinus Haleppensis, Miller.
Aleppo-Pine. South Europe and North Africa. This well-
known Pine attains a height of eighty feet, with a stem of
from four to five feet in diameter. The timber of young trees
is white, of older trees of a dark colour; it is principally
esteemed for ship-building, but also used for furniture. The
tree yields a kind of Venetian turpentine, as well as a valuable
tar. Although ascending mountains in South Europe to
the height of 4000 feet, it thrives best in loose coast-sands,
where in ten years it will attain to twenty-five feet, and
finally will become a larger tree than onfirm lands. We find the
Haleppo-Eir one of our best avenue-trees, as here first proved
by the writer. P. maritima is a variety of tbis species. Content
with the poorest and driest localities and rapid of
growth.
Pinus Hartwegii, Lindley.
Mexico, 9000 to 13,000 feet above sea-level. A Pm e ttty
feet in height, with a very durable wood of a reddish colour;
it yields a large quantity of resin.
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Pinus Hudsonica, Poiret. (P. Banksiana, Lamb.)
Grey Pine. North America, np to 64° N. latitude. Height
of tree forty feet, in the cold north only a shrub. The wood
is light, tough, and easily worked.
A noble Pine, 150
Pinus Jeffreyi, Murray.
North California, on a sterile sandy soil,
feet high; stem four feet thick.
Pinus xlezoensis, Antoine and Endlicher.
Japan. A large tree, with light, soft, smooth timber, used
principally for household utensils.
Pinus Kaempferi, Lambert.
Chinese Larch; also called Golden Pine. China. Tbis is
the handsomest of all the Larches. I t is of quick growth,
and attains a height of 150 feet. The leaves, which are of a
vivid green during spring and summer, turn to a golden
yellow in autumn. The wood is very hard and durable.
Pinus Koraiensis, Siebold and Zuccarini.
China and Japan. A handsome tree, thirty to forty feet high,
producing edible seeds.
Pinus Lambertiana, Douglas.*
Giant or Sugar Pine. North-West coast of America, mostly
in great altitudes. A lofty tree, of rapid growth, upwards of
300 feet high, with a straight naked stem of from twenty to
sixty feet in circumference. I t thrives best in sandy soil,
and produces a soft, white, straight-grained wood, which for
inside work is esteemed above any other Pine in California,
and furnished in large quantities. The tree yields an abundance
of remarkably clear and pure resin, of sweet taste,
used instead of sugar by tbe natives. Tbe cones are eighteen
inches long; the seeds are edible, and used as food by the
natives. Would come best to perfection in the humid regions
of our higher mountains. Tbe timber serves also for fiooring.
Pinus Laricio, Poiret.*
Corsican Pine., South Europe. I t attains a height of 120
feet. The wood is white, towards the centre dark, very
resinous, coarse-grained, elastic and durable, and much esteemed
for building, especially for waterworks. There are
three main varieties of this Pine, viz.;—P. L. Poiretiana, in
Italy; P. L. Austriaca, in Austria; P. L. Pallasiana, on the
borders of the Black Sea. The tree grows best in calcareous
soil, but also in poor sandy soil, where, however, the timber
is not so large nor so good. I t yields all the products of P.
silvestris, bnt in greater quantities, being perhaps the most
resinous of all Pines.
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