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Abies pecthiata (the European, or Common Silver Fir) is not 

 geuerall}'^ recommended for cultivation. 



Abies Veitcliii. — From Mount Fusi-Yama, on the Island of 

 Hondo, Japan. The mountain is 12,440 feet high — the highest in 

 Japan. This beautiful and interesting tree attains the height of 

 one hundred feet (some say one hundred and forty feet), thickly 

 furnished with whorls of slightly ascending branches. Its leaves 

 are but one inch, or less, in length, thickly set all around the 

 branch. The cones are the smallest of all the varieties ; the scales 

 very closely packed. 



Abies Webbicma. — A noble silver fir, from the Himalayas. A 

 pyramidal tree with broad, spreading branches. 



Pinus Austriaca. — A spreading tree of rapid growth; foliage 

 dark and handsome. It is very valuable for many purposes, 

 ■especially for wind-breaks, or single specimens. 



Pinus Bungeana. — The character and habit of this tree is 

 marked and peculiar. It is a beautiful, distinct, and hard}' Chinese 

 species, rare in cultivation. 



Pinus Cembra (Swiss Stone Pine). — A hardy species, forming a 

 ■handsome regular cone, clothed with branches to the ground ; 

 very dense in its growth, and should be in everj^ collection. 



Pinus excelsa. — A fine, spreading tree, with drooping, bluish- 

 green leaves. It is very desirable for parks and lawns, as from its 

 remarkably graceful, drooping habit, it is peculiarly appropriate 

 for single specimens. 



Pinus insignis (the Monterey Pine) . — A most beautiful species, 

 with rich, glossy, deep green foliage. 



Pinus Jejfreyi (Jeffrey's Pine). — A noble tree, in general 

 appearance resembling P. Benthamiana, yet very different from 

 that species, having more slender branchlets, and foliage of a deep 

 bluish green. 



Pinus Lambertiana (Lambert's Pine). — Scott says : "It resem- 

 bles our "White Pine so much that common observers would 

 suppose it the same. We have seen no quality that should cause 

 it to be recommended for planting, our white pine being its equal 

 or superior in all respects." 



Pinus Laricio (the Corsican Pine). — Henry W. Sargent says of 

 it: "It is quite as hardy as the Austrian Pine all over the 

 «ounti'y, having somewhat the same robust habit, only a less vivid 

 green." Its growth is rather more loose and open than that of the 



