THE SILVER FIR. 205 
siderable vigour. Plants one foot high are sold at one 
shilling each. 
P. Nordmanniana (Loudon): Nordmann’s Silver Fir.—This 
tree was discovered by Professor Nordmann, of Odessa, on the 
Crimean mountains, at an elevation of about 6000 feet, where 
it attains the height of nearly 100 feet. The timber in its 
native country has a high reputation; and in this country the 
young plant is Jate in expanding its leaves in spring, where- 
by it is generally exempt from injury. It is reckoned the 
hardiest silver fir yet introduced, but it does not attain to 
the size of the common tree of the genus. 
