Abies Numidica 
Native of Algiers. 
Nat. Order : ConIFERA. Tribe: ABIETINEA. 
Abtes numidica, De Lannoy, ex Carriére, in Rev. Hort. 1866, p. 106 ; 
Veitch, Manual, ed. ii. 529 (1900) ; 
A. baborensis, McNab in Proceed. R. Irish Acad. ii. ser. 2, p. 697 
(1877); Picea numidica, Gordon “ Pinet,” ed. ii. 220, 
Although introduced more than forty years ago from the 
Algerian mountains, where it occurs at an altitude of from 
four to six thousand feet over the sea level, and even there is 
not at all common, this handsome tree is seldom to be met 
with in this country. It is said to be a slow grower, but it is 
planted here in well-drained loamy soil, fully exposed to the 
sun, and makes a foot of top growth yearly, the branches 
spreading well out on all sides and furnished to the ground. 
This specimen was planted in 1881, and has now reached 
a height of twenty-two feet, with a circumference of sixty-one 
feet. It is said not to exceed sixty feet in Algeria, a height 
which, from its present rate of growth, I should think it 
will eventually reach in this country. Needless to say, it is 
quite hardy. 
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