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  • The Pinetum is the name given to a pine-shaded avenue that leads from the Pier to the Arcade Gate.

    Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch Sidney Heath 1907

  • Gerald Barry Macintosh Williams, chm, Friends of Bedgebury Pinetum, for serv the environment.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

  • Vegetation zones, covering 17,000 ha, include deciduous forest, coniferous forest, sub-alpine zones of Fagetum subalpinum and Pinetum mughi and Alpine meadows.

    Durmitor National Park, Montenegro 2008

  • Living in the Pinetum, they had never been hunted or even heard a gunshot.

    IN FIDELITY M.J.ROSE 2001

  • Living in the Pinetum, they had never been hunted or even heard a gunshot.

    IN FIDELITY M.J.ROSE 2001

  • At Dropmore, the gardener told us he had a cat that kept the Pinetum quite clear of squirrels.

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

  • After a fortnight Lord Surbiton got bored with Venice and determined to run down the coast to Ravenna, as he heard that there was some capital cock-shooting in the Pinetum.

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 1909

  • After a fortnight Lord Surbiton got bored with Venice, and determined to run down the coast to Ravenna, as he heard that there was some capital cock-shooting in the Pinetum.

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 1877

  • This Pinetum stretches along the shore of the Adriatic for about forty miles, forming a belt of variable width between the great marsh and the tumbling sea.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • With the Pinetum the name of Byron will be for ever associated.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

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