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of which have a decided upright incHnation, with 

 the branchlets, particularly the tips, falling back- 

 wards. It varies a good deal, however, and 

 specimens quite unworthy of the name, though 

 departing considerably from the normal form, 

 are in cultivation. In the best fastigiate variety 

 the leaves differ considerably from the species, 

 being smaller, more slender, and slightly up- 

 curved. The largest tree I have seen is grow- 

 ing at Emmetts, near Sevenoaks, and is fully 

 45 feet high. 



A. PECTINATA PENDULA. The Weeping Silver 

 Fir. — This rare variety of the Common Silver 

 Fir is at once the most remarkable of the several 

 forms of this well-known tree. Neither in the 

 Kew Hand -list of Conifers nor in the Pinetum 

 Danicum (where varieties have received special 

 attention) is the Weeping Silver Fir referred to. 

 (It is in Masters' List of Conifers, in Gordon s 

 Pinetum, and in Beissners Enumeration.) Gordon 

 says that P. pectinata pendula, Godefroy, is of 

 French origin, with the branches and twigs droop- 

 ing. Whether or not this is the particular variety 

 at present under notice, matters little ; one thing 

 is certain, that the specimen which furnished 

 material for this note is not only well worthy of 

 the name, but is, in all probability, the largest 

 tree of its kind (if, indeed, there be any others, 

 which I have not heard of) in the British Isles. 

 It is growing in rather an obscure position hard 

 by the lawn at Emmetts, a beautifully situated 

 property on Ide Hill, at Sevenoaks, and in com- 

 pany with giant specimens of Thuya plicata, 

 Abies nobilis, and hosts of other conifers. The 



