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our pleasure to test, not one excels this in our estimalion. We have grown it in 

 the opan air for ten years, and entirel}' uniirotected, it has withstood the most 

 severe cold and iatense heat with ec^ual unvarying success. 



"Our oldest tpeciinen is the admiration of everyone who sees it, and is a living 

 proof of its avaihbility to our cultivators in the Middle States. As to protection 

 during the winter it has not needed the slightest." (Hoop's Book of Evergreens.) 



For stately grandeur and form of growth the Abies Grandis, as we see it in its 

 Sub-Alpine to Alpine home on the great Contiuental Divide of the Ilocky Moun- 

 tains, is the true ornamental type of a perfect tree. Erect, straight and smooth as 

 an arrow; leaves silvery green; branches fan-shaped, spreading in regular folds or 

 layers one above the other; the lower branches pendulant the upper ones ascend- 

 ing, the wood soft and white and free from resin. 



The appearance of the Great Silver Fir, with its flexible branches gracefully 

 waving in the breeze, forms a marked contrast with its rigid, natural neighbor. 

 Pious Pondurosa. 



This species of evergreen seems to thrive best in a cool, moist, rich, porous 

 soil. 



In many iostances we observed, where the lower branches had been pressed to 

 the ground by the heavy weight of snow, they had taken root and formed new 

 trees, a la Bunyan. From this we infer that propagation from liyers and cuttings 

 would be easy. 



Although Nuttall, Douglas and other celebrated botanists, have located this ex- 

 ceedingly lovely tree on the Pacific coast, from Northern California to British 

 Ameiica, and we too have seen Urge forests of it, on Mount Ranier near Puget 

 Sound. We have also found it growing on the head waters of Boulder Creek, 

 near Cariboo and even up to timber line, at 12,000 feet above the sea— an aliitude 

 higher than most of the clouds that float over the Eastern States. 



PINES. 



Piaus Contort! — Twisted branched Pine. 



Contrary to what the name would seem to imply the Contort! is a slender, 

 straight, rnpid growing tree. The branches are numerous, slender, twisted, thickly 

 covered with leaves, two inches long and two in a sheath. The color of the leaves 

 is a pjle green, rather pleasing to the eye. 



As an ornamental tree it is quite pretty when small, but in its natural element, 

 inclined to grow tall and slender. The wood is white, light and strong. 



The first settlers of Colorado fenced their farms with the poles and built their 

 cabins from the larger trees. They are found growing thickly on northern expos- 

 ures al)ng the mountain slopes and extending up to the highest elevations. 



While this species of pine is of but little value for lumber, it is valuable for 

 railroad ties, telegraph poles and mining timbers. 



Pinus Pondurosa — heavy wooded pine. 



The leaves of this Pine are a very dark green, nine to ten inches in length; three 

 in a sheath. 



The branches of P. Pondurosa are more open and scattering than the P. Contort!, 

 yet as an ornamental tree, especially in a collection where the brightest and deepest 

 jshades of color are artistically arranged in landscape architecture this tree would 



