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qualities of His Royal Highness. Beauty and elegance, combined with 
usefulness, are its special characteristics. "The long weeping boughs 
which hang gracefully down, may in like manner be thought fittingly 
emblematical of the grief felt by the Society for His Royal Highness's 
untimely death. 
The following is the description of this species :— 
ABIES (Tsuca) ALBERTIANA, 
Tsuga foliis subdistichis planis acutiusculis margine minutissime 
serrulato subtus glaucis, strobilis parvis quinque seriebus squamarum, 
bracteis linearibus obtusis, squamis elongato-ovatis ; bracteis linearibus. 
Habitat in Oregon et California Superiori. 
А tree of 100 to 150 feet in height. Branches flexible and weeping. 
Branchlets slender, with a dirty-brown bark, pubescent. Pulvini slightly 
angularly decurrent, thickened at the apex, wholly adpressed to the 
branchlet; phyllule semi-orbicular. Buds small, surrounded at the 
base by pulvini, and enclosed by one row of about five scales. Leaves 
from three to seven lines long, perennial, subdistichous, petiolate, linear, 
somewhat pointed, entire, above glabrous and without stomata, below 
with a midrib, on each side of which are about nine or ten irregular 
Agassiz, in his “ Lake Superior,” says, “ There are in all continents 
remarkable differences between the vegetation of the shores of a con- 
tinent east and west within the same limit, or the same isothermal 
line.” We may add that it seems that the western coasts of continents 
under such conditions are wore likely to have similar conditions of 
climate than an opposed east and west coast, even although they be 
nearer in position, Hence that we may & priori expect, under the 
me isothermal lines, to find the plants of the western coast of America 
more likely to thrive in this country than those of the eastern coast, and 
at we may reasonably anticipate that the Abies Albertiana will thrive 
better than the common Abies Canadensis, a supposition which is con- 
firmed by the more rapid growth and greater hardiness of the young 
plants of Abies Albertiana already tried. 
with this we give a figure of the tree itself, copied from a 
photograph of a specimen growing оп Mr. George Patton's property of 
the Cairnies, in Perthshire. This was raised from the first consigu- 
