FOREST TREES. 187 
6. Abies Fraseri—Fraser’s Fir, Double Balsam Fir. 
Cones, small, oblong-ovate; the bracts oblong, 
wedge-shaped, short pointed, the upper part much 
projecting and reflexed. 
Fraser's Fir is found from the western part of 
New England southward on the highest parts of the 
Alleghany Mountains. It much resembles the com- 
mon kind, but isa much smaller tree with shorter 
and more numerous leaves, and smaller cones. It is 
perfectly hardy, but has no advantages over the 
preceding species, and is by many considered 
inferior. 
Abies pectinata (European Silver Fir), was intro- . 
duced a number of years since, and widely dis- 
tributed; but as far as my experience and observation 
have extended, its cultivation has in most cases been 
quite unsatisfactory. 
A. Nordmanniana (Nordmann’s Fir), and A. 
pichta (Siberian Silver Fir), are said to be quite 
hardy, but are not yet common. Some of the Cali- 
fornia trees are the largest of this genus, and some 
of them the most beautiful, but they are not hardy 
in most of the Northern States. 
LARIX—LARCH. 
Catkins, lateral and scattered, bud-like; sterile 
flowers, consisting of numerous stamens, inserted on 
the axis, the pollen of simple spherical grains; cones, 
ovoid, erect, the bracts and scales persistent; leaves, 
deciduous, soft, all foliaceous, the primary ones scat- 
