50 CONIFEILE. 



ABIES RELIGIOSA. Lindley. 

 (Mexican Silver Fir.) 



SYN. Piniis religiqsa. Humboldt. 

 Picea religiosa. Loudon. 



Although this handsome species is not perhaps 

 thoroughly hardy in the northern parts of the country, 

 we believe it to be more so than is generally supposed. 

 Naturally it is of a very luxurious habit, and if planted 

 in rich warm soils, has a strong tendency to grow 

 early in the spring, as well as to continue to do so 

 late in the autumn. The consequences of this in 

 our climate are obvious. It should be planted in a 

 somewhat poor dry soil, in a situation by no means 

 favoured with shelter, to induce it to remain inert in 

 the early spring, as well as to hasten the maturation of 

 its wood as the summer advances, and to get it perfectly 

 ripened before the damp short days of autumn arrive. 

 The situations where it will be advisable to plant it 

 are of course limited. It is a native of the mountains 

 of Mexico, at an elevation of about 9000 feet, where 

 it grows one hundred and fifty feet high. 



ABIES WEBBIANA. Lindley. 

 (Webb's Purple-coned Silver Fir.) 



SYN. Pinus spectabilis. Lambert. 

 P. tinctoria. Wallich. 

 P. Webbiana. Wallich. 

 Abies spectabilis. Spach. 

 Picea Webbiana. Loudon. 

 Abies densa. Griffith. 



A tree eighty or ninety feet high, inhabitii)g the 



