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PART III.

beyond Chambersburg , near the Juniata, and on the scrubby ridges beyondBedford, at the distance of about 200 miles from Philadelphia . In this partof Pennsylvania , it is called the scrub pine; and it is seen wherever the soil iscomposed of argillaceous schistus, and is consequently poor. The poornessof the soil on which it grows is attested by the decrepid appearance of thescarlet, red, black, white, and rock-chestnut oaks, among which it grows.Michaux never saw it northward of the river Hudson; and neither in the Caro-linas, nor in Georgia. According to the Hortus Kewensii, it was cultivated in1739, by Miller; but, though it is a singular-looking, and in our opinion mostinteresting, tree, it is not common in British collections. The finest trees otit which we have seen are at Pain’s Hill, where it is 40 ft. high, with a trunKlft. 6in. in diameter; and at Hropmore and White Knights, at both whichplaces, it bears abundance of cones. Fig. 2071. is a portrait of one of thethree Dropmore trees, which, after being 17 years planted, was, in 1831)25 ft. high, with a head covering a space 24 ft. in diameter. There are threefine trees at White Knights, from 25 ft. to 30 ft. high, which have retainedtheir cones ten or twelve years ; and many of the shoots of which appear to beas amply furnished with cones as leaves. A tree at Syon is 14 ft. high. Thereis a low, crooked, pendulous-branched tree of this species in the arboretum atKew, about 10 ft. high; one at Messrs. Loddiges’s 5 ft. high; and one of thesame height, which has been 7 years planted, in the Horticultural Society sGarden. In France , according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, there is a tree 20 ft-high in the gardens of the Trianon; and M. Hericaut de Thury has severstrees which produced cones at the age of 20 years, and have since continueto do so every year.

Projicrties and Uses. The wood of the Jersey pine, according to Michaus,is of little use, except for fuel, on account of its small dimensions, ana t elarge proportion of sap wood which it contains; but, as it abounds in resm>tar is obtained from it. Kalm mentions, in his Travels in North JmencOtthat, in the heat of summer, cattle resort for shade to this tree, in preferenceto any other, even though their foliage were much thicker. He saw cat

studiously singling out P. inops in order to get under its branches ; prol

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