10 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



grandts (great); 170 feet; May; New California; 1831. A. 

 heterophylla (various-leaved) ; 180 feet ; Oregon. A. homolepis 

 (equal-scaled); 25 feet; mountains of Japan. A.JezoensisQezo; 

 spruce-fir); 55 feet; Japan. A. KJmtrow (Khutrow) ; 50 feet; 

 Himalayas. A. lasiocarpa (woolly-coned) ; North-west America ; 

 A. Menziesii (Menzies') ; 60 feet; May; North-west America ; 

 1831. A. Mertensiana (Merten's) ; Island of Sitcha. A.micro- 

 phylla (small-leaved); 180 feet; Oregon. A. Morinda (Morin- 

 da); 40 feet; North India. A. mucronata (sharp-pointed); 180 

 feet; Oregon. A. nigra (black-spruce) ; 60 feet ; May; North 

 America; 1700. A. nobilis (noble); 65 feet; North America; 

 1831. A. Nordmanniana (Nordmann's) ; 80 feet; Crimea. A. 

 obovata (reversed-egg-coned) ; Siberia. A. orientalis (eastern) ; 

 30 feet ; May; Levant ; 1825. A. picea (pitchy) ; 160 feet ; May ; 

 Germany; 1603. A. picea Apollinis (Apollini) ; Greece. A. 

 picea leioclada (smooth-branched) ; Levant. A. pichta (pitch) ; 

 50 feet; May; Siberia; 1820. A. Pindrow (Pindrow) ; 100 

 feet ; May ; Himalayas ; 1837. A. Pinsapo (Pinsapo) ; 65 feet ; 

 Spain; 1838. A. polita (neat); 50 feet; mountains of Japan. 

 A. religiosa (sacred) ; 150 feet ; Mexico. A. rubra (red-spruce) ; 

 50 feet ; May; North America ; 1755. A. rubra violacea (vio- 

 let). A. rubra arctica (arctic). A. Schrenkiana (Schrenk's) ; 

 Siberia. A. Sitchensis (Sitchan) ; Island of Sitcha. A. trigona 

 (three-angled) ; 300 feet ; Oregon. A. Tsuga (Tsugan) ; North 

 of Japan. A. Tsuga nana (dwarf). A. Webbiana (Webb's) ; 90 

 feet; Himalayas; 1822. 



These are all now classed under PINUS. 



ABOBRA. [Cucurbitaceae.] A very ornamental climber, 

 nearly allied to the ornamental gourds which have of late 

 become so popular. The flowers are greenish and incon- 

 spicuous ; the foliage finely cut, dark-green, and very orna- 

 mental ; the fruit, which is the chief beauty, small, glossy 

 scarlet, freely produced. The plant is dioecious. 



Raised from seeds, in hot-bed, in pots, and turned out in 

 a rich sunny border, the plants grow rapidly, and before 

 autumn are very showy. It also strikes freely from cuttings. 



