SPRUCE FIRS. 3 



Abies alba glauca, Plumblyy Mr. Dimsdale*s Silver Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies alba argentea, Hort. 

 This most distinct and striking variety has very white silvery 

 leaves, and attains to about the same size as the common White 

 Spruce. It was first brought into notice by Mr. Plumbly, in 

 the excellent collection of Conifers, belonging to Charles 

 Dimsdale, Esq., at Essenden, near Hatfield, in Hertfordshire. 



Abies alba minima, Knight. 

 This very minute little "White Spruce is the dwarfest of all 

 Spruces, and a singular object of what a timber-tree may become. 

 It is in the rich collection of Mr. Gambler Parry, near Glou- 

 cester. 



No. 2. Abies excelsa, D. C, the Common Norway Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies Picea, Miller. 



„ Abies communis, Hort. 



„ Picea excelsa, Lhik. 



„ „ Latinorum, JBauhin. 



„ „ major prima, Bauhin. 



,, „ vulgaris. Link. 



„ Pinus cinerea, Reeling. 



„ „ excelsa, Lamarck. 



„ „ Picea, Du Roi. 



„ „ Abies, Linn. 



„ Abies Carpatica, Hort. 



„ „ rugosa, Hort. 



Leaves, scattered, solitary, four-sided, deep sombre green, 

 curved, stiff, sharp-pointed, and more crowded together laterally 

 than on the upper and under sides, and nearly one inch in 

 length ; branches on young trees nearly horizontal and disposed 

 in regular whorls from the base to the summit ; but in old trees 

 the bottom branches drop off", and the others become rather 

 pendulous. Cones, produced on the points of the upper branches, 

 and when full grown become pendant ; from 5 to 7 inches long, 

 and 1^ to 2 inches in breadth; scales, irregularly, four-sided, or 



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