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IX. OF TREES INDiyiDUALLY. 



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

 ;noeeia, Honadelphia, Linn. Cones mostly 

 pendant, seldom clustering, cylindrically 

 conical; scales not thickened at the top. 

 Leaves solitary, somewhat scattered, and 

 arranged more or less in two rows. 



1. A. CANADENSIS, Micliaux. 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 Pinaceae; nor of that consumptive- 



