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frosts, in warmer localities. But the certainty that 

 every shoot will be preserved will more than com- 

 pensate for the very feeble chances of a more rapid 

 progress. We may here observe, that many of the 

 spring-tender Pines are not so except when young. 

 Specimens which suffer much then will struggle on 

 from year to year, occasionally in favourable seasons 

 adding an inch or two to their height, till they ulti- 

 mately escape altogether and push into vigorous and 

 handsome growth. 



Abies cephalonica, a well-known spring- tender 

 species, is a remarkable instance of this progressively 

 acquired hardiness. At R. Mangles', Esq., Sunning 

 Hill, Berks., is a fine specimen, some fifteen feet high, 

 being one of the first plants of the kind raised in this 

 country, which is never damaged from frost now, 

 but in its early state frequently suffered much. 

 In the same neighbourhood, are other specimens of 

 this fir, of the same age with the one just men- 

 tioned, and which, like that, suffered much and from 

 the same cause when young, but which have long since 

 ceased to evince any tendency to early growth, and, 

 of course, escape the attendant consequences. It 

 may be worth while to mention, .as a strong exem- 

 plification of the principles we have endeavoured to 

 establish, that the first-named specimen occupies an 

 elevated and an open situation ; the latter very shel- 

 tered ones ; but the former is double the size, and of 

 much greater beauty than either of the others. The 

 cause, of course, is to be accounted for by the fact 

 that, favoured by its position, it never suffered so 



