. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . ish domination, a d. 1520. Although the leaves of Pinux MontezuiiKi. are in brmdlcs of five,the species is not include(l in either of the sections Strohi or Cciuhnein consequence of the .scales of the cone having a apophysiswith a central umbo, and the leaves not being slender and flaccidl»ut Iigid and spreading. Jt thence comes under Kudliche lingering onin sheltered s
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . ish domination, a d. 1520. Although the leaves of Pinux MontezuiiKi. are in brmdlcs of five,the species is not include(l in either of the sections Strohi or Cciuhnein consequence of the .scales of the cone having a apophysiswith a central umbo, and the leaves not being slender and flaccidl»ut Iigid and spreading. Jt thence comes under Kudliche lingering onin sheltered s))ots in Devon and (ornwall. * Several trees of Finns Monte-xtmo; in a more or less tlniviiig condition arc standing intlic rinetuni of the Hon. Mark Rolle at Bicton in south Devon (under dillerent names).TIkic are others at Menaliilly, Cornwall; Htrete Ralegli, near Exeter; Kitlcy, nearriymoutli : Eastnor Castle, Ledhury ; Highnain Couit, Gloucester: Essendon, Hatfield,i\w\ |iiiibaMy otlier -J IJ < ?J 348 riNUS IIAIITWEGII. Pinus Hartwegii. Liudley in Bot. Re^ (1839) misc. 63. Eudliclicr. SviKips. Ooiiif. , Traite Couif. od. II. 410. Gordon, Piiu-t. ud. 11. 304. Masters R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 230. (IcscrilxMl as a luedimu-sizod tree 40—.)0 feet high with stoutspreading l)ranches and brauchlets, the latter clothed with dark , 7—9 inches long, that are frequently in bundles of four; thecones are of ovoid shape, 4—5 inches long, the apophysis of the scaleswith a transverse keel and depressed umbo. It is a native of themountains of Orizaba in rcutral Mexico at a considerable elevation,whence it was introduced by the Horticultural Society of London inl<S3y. The species, if separable from Pinus oocarpa, commemorates itsdiscoverer Theodor Hartweg, one of the most successful of the Societyscollectors and the introducer of several Mexican and Californian Conifers,including Pinus pafula, P. murirata, Cupressus Bentliamii an
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