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IX. OF TREES INDIVIDUALLY. 



ABIES, Tournefort.Nat. Ord. Pinaceae. Mo- 

 noecia, Monadelphia, Linn. Cones mostly 

 pendant, seldom clustering, cylindrical!/ 

 conical; scales not thickened at the top. 

 Leaves solitary, somewhat scattered, and 

 arranged more or less in two rows. 



1. A. CANADENSIS, Michaux. Leaves soli 

 tary, flat, toothed near the point, disposed 

 irregularly in two ranks, each about half an 

 inch long. Cones oval, terminal, scarcely 

 longer than the leaves. Hemlock spruce. 

 Native of the Northern States. 



It would not be exaggeration to pro 

 nounce this the most beautiful evergreen in 

 cultivation. Beautiful as many of the new 

 pines are, few approach this. It has regu 

 larity without formality; and, in any point 

 of view, elegance and gracefulness. Its habit 

 is frequently so erect as to approach the fas- 

 tigiate; yet the ends of its branches are as 

 pendulous as a Babylonian willow. Its co 

 lor is not of that mournful cast so common 

 to other Pinacese; nor of that consumptive- 



