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A MANUAL OP THE CONIPBlUE. 



Abies amabilis.— The beautiful Fir cultivated in Great Britain 

 under this name, presents the following characteristics. The trunk 

 is covered with smooth cinereous brown bark; the branches are 

 spreading, the lower ones gently inclined downwards, much ramified; 



Fig, 12, — Foliage of Abiea amabilis, Natural size. 



the branchlets rather rigid, their bark furrowed with elongated 

 rhomboidal pulvini, and thickly covered with small dark hairs. The 

 foliage is dense and clustered on the upper side of the branches 

 like that of A, Nordmanniana and A. nobilis. The leaves are longer 



