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one hundred and thirty feet. Indigenous to the 



mountain ranges of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees 



to the Caucasus. Its deep green foliage, pyramidal 



shape, and rapid growth, are points which highly 



recommend it. It often suffers from spring frosts. 



ABIES PINDROW. Spach. 



(Tooth-leaved Silver Fir.) 



STN. Picea Pindrow. Loudon. 

 Pinus Pindrow. Royle. 



A large tree, eighty to one hundred feet high, 

 inhabiting the Himalayas at elevations from 8000 to 

 10,000 feet. It bears a strong resemblance to A. Web- 

 biana, with which species it is often confounded. Its 

 foliage is however larger, and the cones more ovate ; 

 but like those of Webbiana in colour, being of the 

 richest purple. The leaves, too, are narrower, and 

 scarcely glaucous in Pindrow , but very much so in 

 Webbiana. As both species are spring tender, they 

 should be planted on dry elevated situations, and the 

 precautions recommended in the treatise for obviating 

 the effects of frost adopted. 



ABIES RUBRA. Point. 

 (Red Spruce.) 



SYN. Pinus rubra. Lambert. 

 Picea, rubra. Link. 



A low tree, indigenous to Nova Scotia and New- 

 foundland. Height about thirty feet. It does not 

 differ materially from A. nigra, being considered by 

 some as a dwarf variety of it. In rich soils it 

 approaches the latter in size. 



