135 FAMILY HERBAL. 



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of Europe^but with us only kept in gardens. We 

 have no kWd of the fir native: what is called the 

 Scotch fir^ is not a fir but a piue. 



The fir-tree grows to a considerable height, and 

 with great regularity. The trunk is covered with 

 a rough and cracked bark, of a resinous smeJI ; the 

 leaves are numerous, and stand very beautifully on 

 the branches. They stand iu two rows, one oppo- 

 site to the other, and are oblong, but somewhat 

 broad and flat. They are of a pale green, and of 

 a whitish hue underneath. The tree is hence called 

 the silver fir, and from the disposition of the leaves, 

 the yew-leaved fir, for they grow as in the yew- 

 tree. The fruit or cones stand upright ; in this kind, 

 ttey are long, thick, and brown. 



The tops of tliis kind are ffreat sweelener.s of the 



blood, and 



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The Red Fir Tree, or Pitch Tree. Pieeal 



, A TALL tree, but not so regular in its growth^ 

 rr in the disposilion of its leaves as the other* Th? 

 trunk is thick, the bark reddish, and the wooa soffl 

 The brandies are numerous^ and they stand if- 

 rc2;u!arlv. The leaves are oblonic, narrow, arki 

 sharp-pointed, and they do not grow m t^^o even 

 rows, .as is in the other, hut stand irrcgnlarlv oct 

 the twigs. The cones are long, slender, and hai\^ 

 downwards. The whole tree has a strong rei-it>bu» 

 smeli. 



The tops of tills are boiled in ilift drinks aeau;^! 

 the scurvy as the other, hut they in^^e the liq^uor 

 much more nauseous ; and not at all bctli^r for the 

 intended purposes. 



Pitch and tar are the produce of the £r Uqc, a& 



