1.   For the third year, the Boy Scouts are selling Italian stone pines and coastal redwoods for Christmas.

2.   Nurseries in your area are more likely to offer assorted cultivars of the much hardier Swiss stone pine, P. cembra.

3.   The mourners, it seemed, had filled the incense burners with the sweet-smelling cones of the stone pine, a conifer native to Italy.

4.   The stone pine was not native to Britain.

5.   The stone pines were fascinating.

6.   Through the tall French windows, we looked over a lawn and gardens bordered by colossal stone pines, evenly spaced like sentries.