[The title of the first Lord Weymouth, by whom the tree was extensively planted after its introduction into England in 1705.] Weymouth Pine, the American white pine, Pinus Strobus.
[1731. P. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Pinus, Pinus Americana,… Lord Weymouth’s Pine.]
1766. Complete Farmer, s.v. Aphernousli, The white Canada-pine, which is better known in England by the name of Weymouth-pine.
1781. Westminster Mag., IX. 133. The Weymouth-pine has been long naturalized here; the patriarch plant still existing at Longleat.
1791. W. Gilpin, Forest Scenery, I. 82. The Weymouth-pine has very little picturesque beauty to recommend it.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. xxi. (ed. 2), 496. The Weymouth pine, the stone pine,… and the larch, are all occasionally seen.
1882. Garden, 16 Sept., 251/2. Weymouth Pine, Scotch Spruce, and Silver Fir timber sold at a low figure.
