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BELE-trec. SeePopuLus. 



A B I E S ; the Fir-tree. 



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aheo^ to extend' or ' ad- 



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The male flowers are dif- 



^fidin a loofe hunch^ having 770 corolla, but many ft a- 



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■h have no corolla., a fmall germen with a fingle fiig- 

 Thefe are Jucce'eded by 'membranaceous winged feeds. 

 Dr. LinnjEiisjprofeffor of botany. at. Upfal, whofe 

 fydem is generally followed at prefent, ranges this 

 genus in the ninth feftion of his twenty-firft clafs of 

 plants, which includes fuch as have male ajid female 

 flowers, placed at diftances on the fame tree, whofe 

 ftamina are joined together in form of a column. 



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Newfoundland White 



• Abies foliis pice^ brevioribus^ conis paryis biunciali- 

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6. Abies (JmiricanayfoYns linearibiis obtufiufculis bi- 

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There is alfo another Tort of Fir, which has been of 

 late years introduced from North America, by the 

 title of Red Spruce Fir of Newfoundland ; but fo 

 far as we can judge by the y6ung trees now growing 



in the Engliih gardens", it appears to be only a va- 

 riety of the Black Newfoundland Spruce Fir. . .There 

 was alfo many years paft a tree of the China F''ir, 

 growing in the garden of. Mr. Morgan bf.Weftmin- 

 fter, which is mentioned by Dr. Pluknet, but being 

 in a badfituation.it made little progrefs, the fmoke 

 of London being very hurtful to all forts of ever- 



To this genus he joins the Pine, Cedar, andLarch- -green trees-,' but whether it was killed in that garden. 



genera. 



tree, fuppofmg them only different fpecies of one ge- 

 nus ; however, as there is great difference in the cul- 

 ture of thefe trees, we fiiall choofe to continue the 

 former method of arranging them under their different 



It may not be amifs however to obferve, that 



. in the, formeV editions of Linn^us's Genera Planta- 

 rvim, thefe plants were ranged under the article Abies, 



, but in the laft editibnrhe has thought proper to place 



. them under Pinus:--' -' '■ ' " 



TFie Species, which are at prefent to be found in 

 the Englifli gardens, are, 

 I. Abies (Jlba) foliis fubtus argenteis apice emargi- 



natis, conis ereftis. 



their nnder-fide, a 

 called Silver Fir, 



whofe 



Abies taxi folio, frudlu furfum 

 fpeftante. Tourn. Inft. R. H. „ -; - ; 



2. Abies {Picea) foliis iubulatis mucronatis Isevibus bi- 

 fariam verfis. The Norway Fir, or Pitch-tree. Abies 



tenuiore folio, fru6lu deorfum infiexo. Tourn. Inft, 



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or removed to any other, I do not know, for the 

 ground has been built upon many years. 

 The firft and fecond forts of Firs are very common in 

 gardens and plantations of evergreen trees. 

 The firft grows in great plenty about Strafburgh, and 

 other parts of Germany j from whence the turpentine 

 is brought to England. But it is fuppofed, that miOft, 

 if not all of thefe were originally planted ; however, 

 the moft beautiful of thefe trees are now o-rowino- up- 

 on mount Olympus, from whence I have received 

 cones, which were upwards of a foot in length. Thefe 

 are certainly natives 'of the place. Dr. Tourncfort, 

 in his travels, mentions the Firs of mount Olympus 

 as the moft beautiful trees in the Levant. 



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The fecond fort, which is very common, in the woods 

 of Norway, is* the tree that affords the white deals, 

 and grows in the vallfes where the foil is very deep. 

 There are two varieties of this fpecies, greatly differ- 

 ing in the length and colour of their leaves, as alfo 

 the fize of their cones ; one of which has been dif- 

 tinguiftied by nurfery-gardeners, under the title of 



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