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The branches are remarkable for their dense foliage, 

 and perfectly flat surface. They spread horizontally 

 from the trunk, and have the branchlets and leaves so 

 thickly and uniformly placed as to present a surface 

 almost as level as the pile of a Turkey carpet. It 

 succeeds best in a rich deep loam, but suffers in some 

 localities from late spring frosts, the remedy for which 

 we have pointed out. 



ABIES OBOVATA. London. 



STN. Picea obovata. Ledebour. 

 Pinus obovata. Ledebour. 



A tall handsome tree, with the habit of the silver 

 fir. A native of Siberia. 



ABIES ORIENTALIS. Poiret. 



(Oriental Spruce Fir.) 

 STN. Pinus orientalis. Linnaeus. 



A tall tree, indigenous to the shores of the Black 

 Sea. It resembles the common spruce fir, but has 

 paler and shorter leaves. 



ABIES PINSAPO. Boissier. 

 (Pinsapo Silver Fir.) 



STN. Pinus Pinsapo. Boissier. 

 Picea Pinsapo. Loudon. 



A very beautiful tree perhaps the most beautiful of 

 the genus indigenous to the mountains of Grenada, 

 where it grows sixty or seventy feet high. The stem 

 is clothed with very stiff branches from the base, 



