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dueive to their prosperity. The best and rarest are named in the list below, 

 those marked with a star being more or less general elsewhere. The oldest have 

 been planted about thirty years. 



Abietine^. 



* Scotch Fir — (Pinus sylvestris.) 



* Dwarf or Mountain Pine — {Pinus pumilio.) 



Smaller prickly-coned Pine — (Pinus muricata or Edgariana.) 



* Corsican Pine — {Pimis Laricio.) Distinguished by its candelabrum form of 



growth, long tapering buds, and long and intensely green leaves. 



* Black or Austrian Pine — {Pinus Austriaca.) Blooms freely. The nearly allied 



species called the Tartarian pine {Pinus Taurica or Pallasiana), though not 

 grown at Norcliffe, is tolerably frequent elsewhere. Both species grow well 

 in Mr. Ferris's choice and beautiful arboretum in Victoria Park, two miles 

 and a half from the Manchester Exchange, a fact worth noting by planters 

 of Conifers near the town. 



* Cluster Pine — (Pinus Pinaster.) A very handsome spreading tree, with long 



leaves and large cones in star-hke clusters. Kemarkable also for its fine 

 masses of clustered foliage, which are the more conspicuous from portions 

 of the branches being destitute of leaves. Blooms freely. 

 Eemarkable Pine — (Pinus insignis.) Leaves of an extremely rich and beautiful 

 grass-green, and three in a sheath. 

 » Cembran Pine — (Pinus Cemhra.) A tree of very pretty compact pyramidal 

 mode of growth, and exceedingly hardy. The leaves grow^re in a sheath, 

 as do those of the next species. 



* Weymouth Pine — (Pinus Strobus.) 



* Norway Spruce Fir — (Abies excelsa.) Sixty feet high, and the top covered with 



cones, which the squirrels are glad of, and entirely strip away by the spring. 

 (One of the finest trees of this species, near Manchester, is at Mr. Bull's, 

 Didsbmy, but not visible from the road.) 



* Black Spruce Fir — (Abies nigra.) A splendid tree, at Quan-y Bank, thirty feet 



high, with many pinnacles. 

 Warty Fir — (Abies Menziesii.) Leaves short and stiff, soon falling, and leaving 

 the branches warty. 



* Douglas Fir — (Abies Douglasii.) Very ornamental, and scents the air after 



rain. The leaves a deep green, like those of the yew. 



* Hemlock Spruce — (Abies Canadensis.) Twenty-four feet high, and ripening 



its little cones, which are scarcely an inch long. 

 Clanbrasil Spruce Fir — (Abies Clanbrasiliana.) 

 Cephalonian Silver-fir — (Picea Cephalonica.) Six feet high. 

 Nordmann's Silver-fir — (Picea Nordvianniana.) A most beautiful tree, espe- 

 cially in spring. 



* Pinsapo Silver-fir — (Picea Pinsapo.) Distinguished by the cyhndrical leaves, 



disposed all round the twigs, and the young topmost branches radiating like 

 a star-fish. This beautiful tree grows well at Mr. BuU's, and gives excellent 

 promise at Mr. Ferris's. 



* Larch — (Larix Europcza.) Several sixty feet high. 



