ARBORETUM NOTES. 145 
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branches, so that it is not easy even to see them 
distinctly, and there is no chance of examining 
them. They appear however to be very like 
those of the Silver Fir, and they certainly agree 
with the character of that tree, and of the sub- 
genus Picea in shedding their scales. 
In other words the cone falls away piece-meal, 
scale by scale, from its axis, instead of itself falling 
off entire, as is the case with all the Spruce Firs 
as well as the Pines. 
Of younger trees of this kind, purchased and 
planted since 1850, we have many here, and they 
all grow vigorously, and appear perfectly hardy. 
Their growth is rapid. One in the Vicarage 
Grove, planted, 1857, grew 2% feet in the two 
years, 1861 and 1862. Another (‘‘Sarah Napier’s* 
tree’’), planted, 1860, has for the last three years 
made leading shoots of about one foot in the 
year. 
(February, 1868). The large Abies cephalonica 
in the arboretum was measured last year, Sep- 
tember 16th, and found to be 58 feet high; the 
circumference of the trunk, at three feet from the 
ground, seven feet. 
Several young plants have been raised here 
from the seeds of this tree. The leaves of the 
young seedlings are exactly like those of the 
adults. 
* Now Lady Albert Seymour 
Abies 
cephalonica 
