. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. he uh2 468 THE FOREST TREES OF BRITAIN. clever manner in which the reverend authorhas compressed so much information in sosmall a space. Our further extracts, however, with theillustrations, will sufficiently recommend thework, without any further panegyric from us. THE CHILI TINE. AliAUCARIA 1MBRICATA. When the numerous trees, which havebeen introduced into Great Britain duringthe last fifty or sixty years, have attained to perfection and in a measure altered the fea-tures of artificial landscape scenery, no tre
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. he uh2 468 THE FOREST TREES OF BRITAIN. clever manner in which the reverend authorhas compressed so much information in sosmall a space. Our further extracts, however, with theillustrations, will sufficiently recommend thework, without any further panegyric from us. THE CHILI TINE. AliAUCARIA 1MBRICATA. When the numerous trees, which havebeen introduced into Great Britain duringthe last fifty or sixty years, have attained to perfection and in a measure altered the fea-tures of artificial landscape scenery, no treewill contribute so much to produce this effectas the araucaria, or Chili pine. Seen from adistance, it has just enough of the characterof the fir trihe to point out its relationship,but is unlike them all; and when inspectedmore closely, it bears not the least resem-blance to any tree known in Britain, andeven, to any eye but that of a botauist, it nolonger has any affinity with the firs. In its native haunts, the Cordillera chainin Chili, it is a lofty tree, exceeding a hun-. dred feet in height, with a straight trunk,covered with a thick cork-like bark, whichabounds with resin. The branches are long-est and most numerous near the base; thusthe tree has a pyramidal form. The leavesare broad, rigid, tough, and sharp-pointed,remaining attached to the tree for many branches are cylindrical and thicklycovered by the clasping leaves, resembling, asLoudon happily remarks, in young trees,snakes partly coiled round the trunk, andstretching forth their long slender bodies inquest of prey. The araucaria, as wre areacquainted with it in England, is rather asingular than a beautiful tree, giving a foreignair to every place where it is planted, but not possessing elegance of form. On the steeprocky ridges of the South American moun-tains, it would seem to be no less majesticthan singular. When we arrived at the firstaraucarias, the sun had just set; still sometime remained for t
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