There are some splendid species that are confined to the southern states, where they grow in great luxuriance. Among the most interesting of these is the Long-leaved Pine (P. Australis), a tree of 70 feet elevation, with superb wandlike foliage, borne in threes, often nearly a foot in length. The cones are also seven or eight inches long, containing a kernel or seed of agreeable flavor. As this tree grows as far north as Norfolk in Virginia, we are strongly inclined to believe that it might be naturalized in the climate of the middle states, and think it would become one of the most valuable additions to our catalogue of evergreen trees. The Loblolly Pine (P. Tﾜda) of Virginia has also fine foliage, six inches or more in length, and grows to 80 feet in height. Besides these already named, the southern states produce the Pond Pine (P. Serotina), which resembles considerably the Pitch Pine, with, however, longer leaves, and the Table Mountain Pine (P. Pungens), which grows 40 or 50 feet high, and is found exclusively upon that part of the Alleghany range.
