2192

ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

viously to 1735 (see p. 70.). Mr. Lambert, writing in 1804, says that he thenonly knew of three trees of P. Banksidrca in England that; were of any size;viz., the one at Pain ’s Hill we have just mentioned, one sit Kew, and anotherat Croome. The first is probably no longer in existence, because a partyof four, of which we were one, searched a whole day for it in vain, in thegrounds at Pain’s Hill, on July 22. 1837; that at Kew is no more ; and that atCroome, if it still exists, is not known to the gardener there. The handsomesttree that we know of P. Banksiona in England is that at Dropmore, of whichfig. 2067. is a portrait to a scale of 1 in. to 8 ft.; and which was, in August,1837, 27 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 18 in., and that of the spacecovered by the branches 24 ft. It is a most elegant tree, well characterisedby Dr. Richardson as having long, spreading, flexible branches. It bearsabundance of cones, which remain on the trees for several years, and give thebranches a singular appearance. There is a tree of this species 30 ft. high atWhite Knights, but it has not assumed so elegant a shape as that at Drop-more. There is a plant of it at Messrs. Loddiges’s, 3 ft. 6 in. high; and onein the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 3 ft. high. The only one that we haveheard of in France is in the Jardin des Plantes , where, in 1837, it was 4 ft.high. The species is rather scarce in British nurseries.

Properties and Uses. Dr. Richardson mentions that the Canada porcu-pine feeds on the bark of this tree, and that the wood, from its lightness, andthe straightness and toughness of its fibres, is much prized for canoe timbers.Titus Smith says that, on the shallow soils in the neighbourhood of Halifax,if not consumed by fires, it produces timber of a useful size. Michauxinforms us that the Canadians find a speedy cure for obstinate colds, from adiet drink made by boiling the cones of P. BanksiaM in water; and this is all,he says, that the tree is good for. As an ornamental tree, we think it oneof the most interesting of the genus, from the graceful manner in which itthrows about its long, flexible, twisted branches, which are generally coveredthroughout their whole length with twisted glaucous green leaves, with hereand there a whorl of curiously hooked horn-like cones. It is one of thehardiest of the Abietinae; enduring, in the Floetbeck Nurseries, 12° of Reau-mur (5° Fahr.); and, therefore, it may be safely planted in pinetums in theextreme north, not only of Britain, but of Europe .

Soil, Propagation, Culture, Sfc. (See p. 2127.) Plants are raised fromimported seeds, when these can be procured; but the species may beinarched, or grafted in the herbaceous manner, on P. sylvestris . (S eep. 2129.) In the herbarium of the Horticultural Society, there are speciiM nsof P. Banksidara sent home by Douglas, infested with a parasitic plant, re-sembling, in its ramifications, foliage, and colour, a mistletoe in miniature. R ISthe Arceuthobium Oxycedri Hook., and will be found figured in a future page-

Commercial Statistics. Price, in the London nurseries, 7s. 6d. each; s*Bollwyller, 2 francs.

B. Cones large, having the Scales furnished with Prickles.

4. P. i'nops Ait. The Jersey, or poor, Pine.

Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 367., ed. 2., 5. p. 316.; Smith in Rees’s Cycio., No. ^Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 496. ; Baumz., 208.; Mart. Mill., No. 3.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1 .12.;Ham., t. 5.p. 236.; Michx. N. Amer. Svl., 3. p. 129.; Hayne Dend., No. 4.; Lodd. Cat. , ed.

Bon Jard., 1837, p. 976.; Lawson’s Manual, p. 346. n.:/

Synonymes. P. virginiiina Du Roi Harbk., ed. Pott., 2. p. 47., Mill. Diet, No. 9., Wangk.

p. 74.; Pin chetif, Fr. _

Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t 12.; N. Du Ham., t. 69. f. 1.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl-, .t. 137.; our Jig. 2070., to our usual scale; and jigs. 2068. and 2U69., of the natural size; a* 1 jfrom Dropmore specimens.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in pairs. Cones drooping oblong-conical, longer,than the leaves. The scales awl-shaped, with prominent prickles. Crestof the anthers short, broad, jagged. (Smith.) Bud ( fig. 2068.) fromf in. to J in. long, and f in. broad; cylindrical, blunt at the point, re-sinous, brown, and surrounded by three small buds. Cone ( fig. 2069.)from 2Jin. to 3| in. long, and from 1 in. to If in. broad. Some ofthose at Dropmore are of the last dimensions. Scales of a hard woodytexture, of a yellowish brown colour, with a sharp woody prickle pro-