Items related to Practical Hints on Planting Ornamental Trees
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...six inches long. It was introduced in 1839, and has proved tolerably hardy, but is sometimes damaged by spring frosts; and during very severe frosts in winter its foliage becomes slightly brown. A very handsome species. PINUS HALEPENSIS--Miller. (Aleppo Pine.) Stn.--Pinus gennensis.--Cook. Pinus cair"ica.--Don. Indigenous to the coasts of the Mediterranean, in dry sandy or rocky soils. Though sometimes growing thirty or forty feet high, it is often much less, with the character of a shrub rather than a tree. Branches very slender and numerous. Leaves two or three inches long, of a deep green, remaining only two years upon the branches, from which circumstance the tree has generally a thin straggling appearance. Succeeds well amongst rocks, where the soil is scanty. PINUS INOPS.--Solander. (Jersey Pine.) Sttj.--Finns virginiana.--Miller. This tree, besides being very ornamental, is well adapted for planting in dry sandy soils, upon elevated inland districts. It is a native of the interior of N. W. America. Height about forty feet, with a clean stem, when full grown, of fifteen or twenty feet. Leaves about three inches long, of a dark green colour. PINUS INSIGNIS.--Douglas. (Remarkable Pine.) Sin.--Pinus californica.--Loieeleur Deslongchamps. Pinus adunca.--Boac. As a very distinct and beautiful tree, this species yields to no other Pine. It is universally admired, and is always conspicuous in the Pinetum, no matter how select the collection of which it forms a part. Colour a very rich vivid green. Leaves five or six inches long. A native of California, perfectly hardy, and grows very rapidly; in confirmation of which we may state, that a specimen at Osborne made shoots six feet six inches long last season; but the situation was well...
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