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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

bat it will succeed in any soil, provided it is loose; and it even loves amoist soil, if not too wet. It thrives best in situations having a southernaspect. This pine was first introduced into Britain by Mr. Lawson ofEdinburgh, in 183.5. The seeds were sown in that year, on light sandysoil; and, at the end of the first season, the plants were twice as largeas those of P. sylvestris sown at the same time in the same soil; andthey had remarkably large deep-penetrating roots. ( Man ., p. 339.)

Properties and Uses. The sap wood of P. austriaca is said by Hoss tobe of a whitish yellow, and the heart wood of a rusty yellow; the latterbeing very resinous, strong, and tough. It is much valued in Austria, whenkept dry; and is said to surpass even the larch in resisting the injuriouseffects of water, or of alternate moisture and dryness. It is used by joiners,coopers, &c., and makes excellent fuel. When burned, the flames, on accountof the resin contained in the wood, produce a very dense black smoke ; and,where lampblack is the object, it is very productive of that substance.The wood is preferred to that of the beech for charcoal ; and the roots affordsplinters for torches. Among all the native pines of Austria, this one is saidto afford the greatest quantity of turpentine.

Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in Lawson’s Nursery, Edinburgh,

1 Os. a thousand for one-year’s seedlings, and 20.s. for two-years’ seedlings.

i 9. P. (L.) PAi.LAS/.-f'.V/f Lamb. Pallas’s, or the Tartarian , Pine.Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1.1. 5.; Lawson’s Manual, p. 339.

Synonymes. P. taurica Hort.; P. tatarica'in the Hammersmith Nursery in 1797; P. maritima Pall.Ind. Taur. (according to a specimen in Mr. Lambert’s herbarium) j P. Pinea Habl. Taur., p. 97. ;P. halepensis Bicb. Fl. Taur. Cauc., 2. p. 408. (exclusive of the synonymes, except those of Pall,and Habl.); P. Laricio Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. Suppl., 3. p. 623. (exclusive of the synonymes, exceptthose of Pall, and Habl.); Tzaam in the Tartar language.

Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 5. ; our .figs. 2087. and 2089., to our usual scale; figs. 2086. and2088., of the natural size, from living specimens received from A. Lambert, Esq., taken from histrees at Boyton ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in pairs, very long, erect, rigid, channeled ; sheathst 2086 very short. Crest of the

anthers roundish, convexrepand. Cone ovate-oblongoften curved. Scales slightly tuberculate, and termi-nated by a very small,prickle. {Lamb.) Bud {Jig.2086.) fin. to If in. long,and from Jin to 1 in. broad;ovate, and pointed, withthesides concave,like those

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of P. Laricio, but muchlarger. Leaves (see Jig.

2088.) from 4 in. to 7 in. or 8 in. inlength; sheath from \ in. to fin. inlength.Cones from 4 in. to 5 in. in length, andfrom If in. to If in. in breadth at thewidest part; ovate-oval, acuminate, hori-zontal in their direction, and slightly in-curved at the extremities, which pointdownwards. Scales as in those of P. La-

ricio, but larger. (From specimens re- " - _

ceived from Mr. Lambert, White Knights, -■—

and the Glasnevin Garden, in August, 1837.)

Varieties. We can readily conceive that P. L. Pallasiarca, like every other va-riety of P. Laricio, is liable to sport; and, accordingly, of the trees pos-sessed by Mr. Lambert, one has the cones straight and short, and anotherlong and crooked. In the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, there are twotrees of P. Pallastdna, which were planted in the year 1797, and are now