. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. PINASTER, OR CLUSTER PINE. 437. Pinus pinaster. , or CLUSTER PINE. Pinus pinaster Pinus maritima Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. p. Pin. i. t. Man. p. Arb. Brit, ch cxiii. p. du Hamel v. p. 240. The introduction of the Pinaster into England by Ge-rard so early as 1596, the extent to which it has been 438 CONIFERS. cultivated in many districts, as well as its ornamental qua-lities, entitle it to some notice in a work like the present,though it cannot be recommended as a species valuab
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. PINASTER, OR CLUSTER PINE. 437. Pinus pinaster. , or CLUSTER PINE. Pinus pinaster Pinus maritima Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. p. Pin. i. t. Man. p. Arb. Brit, ch cxiii. p. du Hamel v. p. 240. The introduction of the Pinaster into England by Ge-rard so early as 1596, the extent to which it has been 438 CONIFERS. cultivated in many districts, as well as its ornamental qua-lities, entitle it to some notice in a work like the present,though it cannot be recommended as a species valuablefor its timber, or calculated to repay the planter for itsoccupancy, in soils capable of producing wood of moregeneral utility. In the quality and texture of its woodit is greatly inferior to the Common Pine, as well as tothe other species whose cultivation we have already recom-mended, and, even in its ornamental properties, it doesnot, we think, surpass the Pinus laricio, Pinus palla-siana, or the Pinus Austriaca, all of which occupy a higherzone, that is, grow in a colder climate, and
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