. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. yrecognised by its light grey, feathery appearanceand smooth ashen grey bark. The leaves, arrangedfive in a sheath, are nearly 5 inches long, veryslender, and of a pleasing, soft, silvery green tint;while the cones are from 6 inches to fully 8 inchesin length, usually bent or curved, and when growingexude resin freely. In some of the woods atWoburn Abbey the Weymouth Pine has repro-duced itself from
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. yrecognised by its light grey, feathery appearanceand smooth ashen grey bark. The leaves, arrangedfive in a sheath, are nearly 5 inches long, veryslender, and of a pleasing, soft, silvery green tint;while the cones are from 6 inches to fully 8 inchesin length, usually bent or curved, and when growingexude resin freely. In some of the woods atWoburn Abbey the Weymouth Pine has repro-duced itself from seed in large numbers, and theseseedlings have been taken advantage of andutihsed as forest trees. For afforesting purposesthis is a valuable tree. P. Strobus nana grows to 5 feet in height, andis of dense globular habit when young, but apt tolose the lower branches with advancing years, andthen assumes a less compact and pleasing appear-ance. The branches and branchlets are short andslender, and the leaves 2 inches long, and producedthickly at the branch extremities. P. SYLVESTRis, LiuncBus. Scotch Pine. (Syn-onyms : P. rubra, Miller; P. rigensis, Desfontaines; ^^M#? 3 --^1^^^^^^ -?W^^^. Fac^ ^ap^ 1 = PIXU5 STROBUS. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 155 and many others.) Northern Europe and Asia,Britain.—A well-known species of very variablehabit. The young tree is usually formal, the stemstraight, and the branches regularly arranged ; butin old age, with the loss of the lower branches andincrease in size of those near the top, the tree oftenpresents a decidedly picturesque appearance, whichis still further enhanced by the warm cinnamonbrown of the bark. In the juvenile specimen theleaves are longer and more silvery in appearancethan when the tree becomes advanced in vary in length from 2 inches to 3 inches, andare arranged two in a sheath. The cones varygreatly in size and shape, but are usually from2 inches to 3 inches long, and i to ij inches atwidest part. Both as an or
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