The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . nt to California by the London HorticulturalSociety. In July of that year, he sent home seeds of this pine and severalothers. In his journal, which was published by the London Society in 1847 and1848, frequent allusions were made to the P. Benthamiana. He says inone place, Some trees of this noble pine attain an enormous size : thelargest I measured was twenty-eight feet in circumference, and two hundredand twenty feet high. Pimis Pondcrosa and P. Benthamiana. -59 In the year 1849, J^I- Gordon (author of the Pinetum ), who thenhad
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . nt to California by the London HorticulturalSociety. In July of that year, he sent home seeds of this pine and severalothers. In his journal, which was published by the London Society in 1847 and1848, frequent allusions were made to the P. Benthamiana. He says inone place, Some trees of this noble pine attain an enormous size : thelargest I measured was twenty-eight feet in circumference, and two hundredand twenty feet high. Pimis Pondcrosa and P. Benthamiana. -59 In the year 1849, J^I- Gordon (author of the Pinetum ), who thenhad charge of the London Horticultural Societys garden, described theBenthamiana in the journal of that society, and gave a drawing of the coneand leaves. Again we find it enumerated in A Catalogue of ConiferousPlants, with their Synonymes, prepared by Mr. Gordon and Dr. Lindley,and published in the journal of the London Horticultural Society in 1850. In that list, the synonymes given to P. Benthamiana are /-. brachyptera() and /. Sinchii ii iY\.ooV^x).. PiNus Benthamiana (one-fourth natural size) In Carrieres Traitu general des Conifers, published in 1855, and inGordons Pinetum, published in 1858, it is described fully, and no doubtexpressed as to its distinctness. It is to be found in all the principal collections of conifers in Europe,and enumerated distinctly in the leading nursery-mens catalogues. I remember having seen, not long ago, a notice of one at Dropmore, Eng-land, twenty-seven feet eight inches in height, and two feet four inches must be others larger than this. 26o Foreign Varieties of the Potato. I presume that Mr. Sargent must have fine specimens of both thesepines in his grounds at Fishkill, on the Hudson. We sent him plants in1857. I send you a small branch of each to show the differences of char-acter to which I have alluded. FOREIGN VARIETIES OF THE POTATO. It is somewhat remarkable, that, of the great number of foreign varietiesof the pota
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