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Royle makes a similar remarkas to the resemblance of thistree to P. Ntrobus, and adds“ that it is remarkable for itsdrooping branches, whence itis frequently called the “ weep-ing fir,” by travellers in theHimalayas. It is found incompany with the deodar ce-dar at Narainhetty, in Nepal,and at Simla, Theog, &c., andin the Bhotea Pergunnahs ofKamaon. Dr. Wallich men-tions a variety, if not a species,still nearer to P. Ntrobus, atBainpa and Toka, in Nepal.(Royle Must.) The rate ofgrovvth of this tree, in the cli-mate of London, appears to benearly the same as that of P.Ntrobus. A plant in the Hor-ticultural Society’s Garden, ofwhich jig. 2202. is a portrait,8 years planted, was, in 1837,12ft. high; one at Dropmore,of which jig. 2201. is a portrait,the same age and 10 ft. high,has produced a cone; and onein the Kinnoul Nursery, in theneighbourhood of Perth, was,in 1836,15 ft. high. P. excelsais frequent both in UpperNepal and Bothsam. In thelatter country, its timber ispreferred by the inhabitantsto that of every other pine. Ityields in great quantities a2201

pure and limpid turpentine, by the slightest incision. The scales of the conealso exhibit turpentine, see jig. 2200. to the natural size. The species wasintroduced into England by Dr. Wallich about 1827; and several plantswere raised by Mr. Lambert at Boyton, and in the Horticultural Society’sGarden, in that year. Some appear, according to Mr. Lawson, to have beenraised, also, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Plants, which are rather rarein the London nurseries, are 2D. each.

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