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426 One of these trees, planted out in a bed near the pagoda, is barely 3 feet high at present. Another which was sent to Colesborne was planted in a high exposed situation in my park, where it grows very vigorously on oolite soil.

When in Bosnia, on my way to collect seeds, I was obliged to return home suddenly, but my companion, Mrs. Nicholl, who visited the Prenj mountain, procured a quantity of seeds which I sowed in 1902, and which have grown as fast as either the Corsican or Austrian pines, and look more healthy and vigorous on my soil than any other pine I have raised. They form a much better root-system when young than either the Austrian or Corsican pine, and in consequence are much more easy to transplant. I moved a number in September last just before a period of drought, and they have passed through a severe winter with very few deaths; I therefore believe that the tree will be a good one for planting in dry limestone soils, and may have a greater ornamental if not economic value than the Austrian pine.