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and are about 5000 feet above the level of the sea. ‘This is 
an elevation considerably greater than any of the hill-tops of 
Britain, but it is only about one-third of the height of some 
parts of the Sierra Nevada or snowy range of Upper California. 
So far as I can yet judge of this tree, it is superior to most of 
those recently introduced, and is destined to occupy a con- 
spicuous place among the hardy trees of this country. Ihave 
grown it from seed sown in the open ground, and find that 
the young seedling plants stand during the severest winter. 
At one year old the young plant is sometimes as small as 
a one year Scotch fir, The two-year-old seedling is as tall 
as that plant at that age, and more broadly ramified. It 
should be transplanted from the seed-bed when one year old, 
to give it sufficient room and to increase its root fibres, which 
are naturally long and bare. Transplanting has the effect of 
retarding its upward growth. The plant is remarkable in 
early life for acquiring breadth in the spread of its branches 
and the thickness of its stem. 
In the nursery it requires frequent transplanting: or pot 
culture to keep it in a safe state for removal. A plant on 
my lawn furnishes a good idea of the progress of the tree. 
It was sown in the open ground in April 1860. It stood 
the severe winter of 1860-61, when a one-year seedling, one 
inch, having a cover of about two inches of snow. It was 
transplanted in the nursery in April 1862. In the spring of 
1864 it was placed into its present situation; it has now finished 
the growth of seven years, and stands 73 inches high; 32 
inches of which were the measure of last summer’s growth 
(1865) ; the spread of its branches, or diameter, is 52 inches. 
The plant would have been much taller had it not been dis- 
turbed by being twice transplanted, which has had the effect 
’ of considerably retarding its progress, as will be seen from the 
following figures, recording its progress in inches during the 
seven summers respectively :—1, 4, 4, 9, 8, 15, 32=73 inches. 
It will be observed that its growth last summer was six inches 
greater than that of its first five yearsfrom seed. A vigorous 
plant has the propensity of continuing its growth late in the 
