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Arbor {cultural Notices, supplementary to 



is a sprig to our usual scale of 1 in. to 4 ft. Fig. 47. shows the scales,^. 45. 

 the seeds, and Jig. 46. one of the young plants just come through the soil ; all 

 these figures being of the natural size. A great many plants have been raised 

 from the seeds distributed by the Horticultural Society. 



Vtcea cephalonica, 

 ^ v bies cephalonica,;4?'£. 

 Brit., p. 2326. — Since 

 our last observations 

 on this subject in p. 

 126., H. L. Long, Esq., 

 of Hampton Lodge, 

 nearFarnham,to whom 

 the seeds of the Cepha- 

 lonian fir were first sent 

 by Colonel, now Sir C. 

 J. Napier, has received 

 from a friend at Cor- 

 fu a box enclosing 

 branches of the fir, 

 with cones and leaves 

 attached, and contain- 

 ing abundance of per- 

 fect seeds. Fig. 49. is 

 a portrait of one of the 

 branches, kindly given 

 us by Mr. Long, to our 

 usual scale of 1 in. to 

 4 ft. Fig. 50. is a cone 

 of the natural size ; 

 Jig. 53. a, b, c, scales 

 and seeds of the natural size ; Jig. 52., terminal buds of the natural size ; and 

 Jig. 51., a seedling plant, just emerged from the soil, of the natural size. 



These figures place it beyond all doubt that the Cephalonian fir is a Picea ; 

 but whether only a variety of the silver fir, or a distinct species, may be 

 doubtful. From the bristle-pointed leaves and their dilated petioles, we are 

 strongly inclined to be of the latter opinion j but, should this fir not be 

 a distinct species, it is, at all events, so marked and so beautiful a variety, 





