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l)rought from Colorado, it is hard}-, but if seed is brought from 

 California tlie plants prove too tender for this region. There is 

 a ver}' beautiful false hemlock — a new form of Pseudotsuga taxi- 

 Jolia, introduced by Robert Douglas, of AVaukegau, 111., which 

 is a perfect weeping tree, and seems to be a most desirable acqui- 

 sition. Abies sub-alpina, a species brought from Mount Shasta, is 

 perfectly hard3% but is not a strong growing tree in Massachusetts. 

 Abies Eiigdtnanni is a promising but rather slow growing tree. It 

 is more compact and more conical than A. alba^ and a specimen in 

 the Arnold Arboretum, now seventeen or more years old, has 

 never shown sunburn or scald. A. concolor from Colorado and 

 Utah stands our climate well and is one of our best evergreens — 

 ^rel•y beautiful and valuable. Mr. Dawson fears that Ficea 

 puiigens will not realize all that was hoped for it, as a fungus 

 has attacked the leaves of several trees ; but they Avere growing 

 upon rather poor soil, and the fungus may not become general 

 under more favorable conditions. 



Jacob ^Y. Manning said that in 1872 ten Rock}' Mountain 

 evergreen conifers were added to his collection, including Finns 

 Jlexilis, F. ponderosa, F. coutorta, F. Murrayana, Abies Donglasii, 

 A. pungeiis^ Ficea concolor, and some others. J. T. Allan, of 

 Omaha, then Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of 

 Nebraska, collected in that season about 50,000 of these trees, in 

 the Colorado spurs of the Rocky Mountains ; and exhibited ten 

 of them, in tubs, in Boston, in September of 1873, at one of the 

 most successful meetings ever held bj' the American Pomological 

 ♦Society. These trees were presented to Mr. Manning b}' the 

 ■owner at that time, and they were planted in the Reading nurseries. 

 Abies puiigens, A. Doughisii, and Ficea cmcolor were successful, 

 iind were subsequentl}' sent out to some customer who could not l)e 

 identified afterwards. The speaker has ever since regretti'd their 

 sale, as the}- were about the first trees of the kinds that were 

 planted in New England. Mr. Manning next l)ecame interested in 

 sixty-two Abies pangens which Avere growing in the Botanic Gar- 

 den at Cambridge. It was in the year Professor Charles S. 

 Sargent became Director tiiere. The gardener in charge notified 

 Mr. Manning, that autunni, that it was proposed to sell those 

 trees, and he then thought one hundred dollars a fair valuation for 

 the lot. At that time they had no reputation here for excellence in 



