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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

eased in its appearance, nor does itexhibit any peculiarities of constitu-tion, to which other pines are not \jjjsubject. Occasionally, like the pinas-ter and Scotch pines, it kills itself byan exuberant bearing of cones; and itthen assumes a very extraordinaryaspect, reminding one, Sir CharlesLemon observes, of the groups oflittle wooden birds, or popinjays,perched on the ends of sticks, at whichthe people of Holland and Belgiumshoot for prizes with bows and ar-rows. The foliage, when this takes

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to a collection of dry sticks, eachterminated by a cone. The largest

tree that Sir Charles Lemon had seen, measured, in 1833, 44 in.in girt at 4 ft. from the ground, after being planted 35 years. Mr.Booth, in 1837, informed us that the two largest trees of thisvariety that he knew of, grew in rather an exposed situ-ation between Carclew and Mylor Bridge, and that theywere about 30 ft. high, diameter of the trunk about 15 in.,and of the head from 15 ft. to 18 ft. When of this size,

Mr. Booth considers this variety to be a very graceful tree“ the head being round, compact and bushy, and pre-senting an agreeable contrast to the pyramidal head of theScotch pine, or the pinaster.” Thereare many smaller trees at Carclew,

Sir Charles Lemon’s ’seat in Corn-wall, which, at 8 or 9 years’ growth,assume all the characters that be-long to the variety ; and even seed-lings of 3 years’ old show symp-toms of the same peculiarities. Itis not uncommon in the woods ofCarclew, and those of Lady Bassetadjoining. Mr. Booth has also ob-served it in other parts of the county,but not out of it. There is a plantin the pinetum at Carclew which,in 1837, after being 6 years planted,was 6 ft. Gin. high.

1 P. P. 4 minor; P. maritima minorN. Du Ham., v. p. 242 t. 72. bis,f. 1., and our Jig. 2104.; Pin Pinsot,

Pin de Mans, Pin a Trochet.—

This variety, which is chiefly distin-guished by the somewhat smaller size of its cones, beingfrom 3iin. to 4in. long, and If in. broad, is said by Boseto be produced by a colder climate, and to abound on thewest coast of France, especially on the barren sands in theneighbourhood of Mans; and to be hardier than the species.

It is found in the Landes of Bordeaux, growing along with P. Pi-naster. There is a specimen of this variety in the Jardin des Plantes,as well as of P. Pinaster, known there as P. maritima major; and aconsiderable quantity of P. maritima minor has been sown in theForest of Fontainebleau. Judging from the specimens with coneswhich have been sent us from different parts of the country, this

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