Description | Botanical study of a specimen of American pine. This painting is reproduced, in mirror image, in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 16, left figure, engraved by Elisha Kirkall).
Plant with scaly brown bark, showing a large bunch of brown pine cones, and long sprays of green needle-like leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Pinus Americana foliis praelongis subinde ternis conis plurimis confertim nascentibus'. Not signed. |