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{Cal. Mem., i. p. 125.) This variety abounds in the counties ofAberdeen, Moray, and Inverness , more especially in the Highlanddistricts of Abernethy and Strathspey; and in the forests of Mar,Invercauld, and Glentanner, along with the white-wooded pine, andalways on a light hazelly loam. The first individuals who collectedseeds and raised plants for sale of this variety were Messrs. A.and J. Grigor, nurserymen at Elgin and Torres; for whose exer-tions the Highland Society awarded them a premium in 1830.This variety appears to be that alluded to by Sir Walter Scott inthe Quarterly Review for October 1828, in which he recommendsprocuring the seeds of red pine from the Highlands of Scotland , jalleging that the ordinary, or white-wooded, “Scotch fir” is “an !inferior variety, brought from Canada not more than half a centurysince.” This Canadian variety he describes “ as a mean-looking tree,but very prolific of seed; on which account the nursery gardenersare enabled to raise it in vast quantities.” (See Gard. Mag., vol. iii.p. 3,51.) Every botanist knows that the Scotch pine is not indi-genous to America ; and every nurseryman, that seeds of pines ofany kind are received from that country only in very small quan-tities. It is certain, however, that the commonest description ofScotch pine is much more prolific of seed than the P. s. horizon-tabs; and this circumstance may have led Sir Walter Scott intothe above-mentioned error. We may also add that at StrattonStrawles, in the neighbourhood of Norwich, there are two kinds ofpines in the woods of Robert Marsham , Esq., of both of whichthat gentleman has sent us specimens. One of them is called theScotch pine, and the other the American pine; but both are ob-viously P. sylvestris : the so called American variety has longerleaves and a redder bark than the other; and, when cut down, thewood is found white throughout, while the heart wood of the other jis red. There are young plants of P. s. horizontalis in the Horti-cultural Society’s Garden; and both plants and seeds of it may beobtained in large quantities from Messrs. Grigor of Elgin andForres, Mr. Lawson of Edinburgh, Mr. Charlwood of London , andM. Yilmorin of Paris . There is a tree at Syon, which, in 1837,was named P. rubra, and which answers to the description of Donsvariety. It is 25 ft. high, and was planted about 1825. The branchesare depressed towards the stem ; and the leaves are short, and of abeautiful glaucous hue.

1 P. s. 3 uncindta, the hooked- coned wild Pine ; Mar Forest wild Pine,Hort. Soc. Garden ; is another of Don of Forfar’s varieties, which isdescribed by him, in the article before quoted, as a remarkablevariety, quite distinct both from P. s. vulgaris and P. s. horizon- ;tAlis. Its leaves are of a still lighter colour than those of the last, jinsomuch that they appear of a truly light glaucous hue, approach- !ing to a silvery tint. Its branches form, like P. s. vulgaris, a py ra 'midal head; but it differs remarkably in its cones from both the ,former varieties ; the cones in this variety having the appearance otbeing beset with blunt prickles bent backwards. The leaves areserrulated; a character which at once distinguishes it from P. f-vulgaris, with which the tree agrees in having a pyramidal head. Thisvariety is more common than P. s. horizontalis, and it also pr°‘duces good timber. There are young plants of this variety in the jHorticultural Society’s Garden, and it may be obtained, also, 0 *Mr. Lawson, Edinburgh . Fig. 2047. is a cone of the P. s. uncinataof M. Yilmorin, taken from a cone received from that gentlemanand which we concludeto be the same variety as, or at all events nearlyrelated to, that described by Don of Forfar. It will be observed th*this hooked cone is quite different, both in its general form, and the