THE FLORAL WORLD AND GURDEN GUIDE. 



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ABIES K.EMPFEEI. 



This beautiful spruce is oie of the struck with its beauty, tliat we had it 

 most desirable of the recently intro- sketeliecl in ortler to present^ts portrait 



duced conifers for ornamental planting 

 Whea visiting the nursery of Mr. Glen- 

 dinning, at Chiswick, we were so much 



to our readers. In Gordon's " Pinetum" it 

 is described as one of the noblest trees 

 found by Fortune in the Northern, East- 



