Abies Pinsapo 
Native of Spain. 
Nat. Order : ConIFER&. Tribe: ABIETINEA. 
Abies Pinsapo, Boissier in ‘“ Biblioth. Univ. Geneva” (1838) ; 
Veitch, Manual, ed. ii. 534 (1900) ; 
Picea Pinsapo, Loudon, “ Encycl. Trees,” 1041 (1842). 
The Spanish silver fir was introduced to this country in 
1839. It is found in abundance on the higher mountains in 
Spain, often up to the snow-line, and grows there to a height 
of seventy feet. It is of slow growth, and should be planted 
by itself, giving it plenty of room to develop the branches, 
which are divided into numerous ramifications from the 
ground upwards, so as completely to hide the main stem. 
The leaves are very short, not quite half an inch in length, 
regularly and thickly placed round the branches and of a 
greyish-green colour. The plant figured is thirty feet in 
height, and has a circumference of eighty-one feet. It is 
perfectly hardy, and will do well in any reasonably good soil. 
Abies Pinsapo is especially suitable for chalk and lime- 
stone soils, in which it grows into a fine landscape tree ; it is 
rarely, if ever, subject to injury by spring frosts owing to its 
being late in starting into growth. 
