THE SPRUCE FIK. 



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but is found at a great elevation on the Alps, Pyrenees, 

 and other mountains of central Europe, flourishing in 

 situations which are too cold and wet for the Scotch Pine. 



In Lapland it grows at an elevation of a thousand feet, in 

 Korway and Sweden at an elevation of from two to three 

 thousand, and among the Alps of Switzerland it attains 

 perfection at a much greater height. 



