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coni'fer/e. pi'nus.

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Royle makes a similar remarkas to the resemblance of thistree to P. Ntrbbus, and adds“ that it is remarkable for its idrooping branches, whence it Iis frequently called the “ weep- Iing fir,” by travellers in the 1Himalayas . 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 .{Boyle lllust.') The rate ofgrowth of this tree, in the cli-mate of London , appears to benearly the same as that of P.Strobus. A plant in the Hor-ticultural Society’s Garden, ofwhich Jig. 2202. is a portrait,

8 years planted, was, in 1837,

12 ft. high; one at Dropmore,of which Jig. 2201. is a portrait,the same age and 10ft. 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 a

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’sLarden, in that year. Some appear, according to Mr. Lawson, to have beenraised, also, in the, Glasgow Botanic Garden . Plants, which are rather rare*n the London nurseries, are 21s. each.

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