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Abies tmga is quite hardy in England. It is a beautiful tree for 

 small lawns, where the larger Coniferas would be inappropriate. Tsuga 

 is the Japanese name of the tree. 



Abies Bnmoniana.— The Himalayan Hemlock Fir is " a beautiful 

 species, which forms a stately blunt pyramid, with branches spreading 

 like the Cedar but not stiff, and drooping gracefully on all sides. It 

 is iinknown on the outer ranges of Sikkim, but in the interior it 

 occupies a belt about 1,000 feet lower than the Silver Fir, A. Web- 

 bio na. It here attains a height of 120 feet, with a girth of 20 feet.* 

 A. Bnmoniana has longer leaves than any of the Hemlock Firs ; they 

 are disposed in irregular double lateral rows, those in the lower row 

 being about an inch long, those above one-third shorter, and all very 

 glaucous on the under side. Although found at elevations of 8,000 

 and 9,000 feet, this beautiful Fir has proved rather tender in this 

 country." 



Abies Douglasii " is one of the grandest of the group of giants 

 which combine to form the forests of the West. It attains a height 

 of 200 and even 300 feet, with a diameter of 10 feet at 4 feet 

 above the ground. In its most favoured habitat, about the mouth of 

 the Willamette, it forms forests of which the density can hardly be 

 appreciated without being seen. The trees stand relatively as near 

 each other, and the trunks are as tall and as slender as the 

 canes in a cane brake. In this case the foliage is confined to 

 a tuft at the top of the tree, the trunk forming a cylindrical 

 column as straight as an arrow, and almost without branches for 

 200 feet." \ Such is the Douglas Fir as seen in its native home. 

 In Great Britain some of the older specimens are also rapidly 

 growing into dimensions that will, in a short time, surpass every 

 native tree, and the Douglas Fir may even rival the Wellingtonia 

 in height in this country. As a landscape and park tree A. 

 Douglasii is decidedly handsome ; its tall straight trunk, when the 

 tree is standing alone, is feathered from the base to the top with 

 branches gradually decreasing in length, and thus producing an 

 elongated pyramidal or spiry outline. The foliage is of a deep 

 but cheerful green; the leaves are about an inch long, two rowed 



* Sir J. D. Hooker's Himalayan Journals, vol. i., p. 209. 



t Dr. Newberry, Pacific Railway Report, p. 55. A horizontal section of the trunk of a 

 Douglas Fir 6 feet in diameter was exhibited in the British Columbian Court of the London 

 International Exhibition of 1862. The height of the tree from which it was taken was 

 B09 feet, and its age, according to the rings, 354 years. 



