486 iANDSOAPE GAEDENING. 



A. e. Clanbrasiliana (Lord Clanbrasil's variety). — Exceed- 

 ingly dwarf and perfectly hardy ; leaves, only half an inch long, 

 and the mature plant not over three feet. 



A. e. elegans. — A pretty Dwarf hardy variety, with slender 

 gray foliage reaching the height of four or five feet. 



A. e. diffusa, A. e. compacta, A. e. pumila, A. e. attenuata 

 — are four Dwarf varieties of the Norway spruce, similar 

 in growth and general appearance to those mentioned above, 

 and very hardy. In fact, wherever the Norway spruce 

 can be grown, these eight or ten dwarf varieties can, and 

 when grouped with the dwarf pine, P. strobus pumilis, and 

 the Dwarf Scotch fir, P. sylvestris pumilis, neither, of which 

 ever exceed four or five feet, they make a very interesting and 

 striking plantation. 



A. Menziesii — (Menzies' fir) known also A, Sitchensis — is a 

 tall tree, with light glaucous-colored foliage, growing sixty to 

 seventy feet high ; a native of northern California and the island 

 of Sitcha ; quite hardy here. Our specimens, which have been 

 out. some five or six years, occasionally get scorched by the 

 summer ; in the latitude of Philadelphia it does, likewise, very 

 well, as also at Cincinnati, Newport, Washington, Boston, 

 Flushing, in New Jersey, and even at Clinton, N. Y., when in 

 shade. 



A. obovata (Obovate-coned spruce), known and imported by 

 a^^^ US as A. Wiitmanniana, is as yet com- 



A. Schrentiana. paratively new. Judging from the appear- 

 janens . ^^cq of our Specimens now, we should sup- 

 pose it would prove hardy, which is most likely to be the case 

 with firs coming from so high an altitude as the Altai moun- 

 tains. It is also found in Siberia. It resembles the common 

 spruce. It is quite hardy at Flushing, which is the only place 

 we can discover where it has been tried. 



A. orientalis (Eastern spruce). — A peculiar tree, with dense 

 short foliage covering the branches on all sides, growing 

 seventy to eighty feet high, and forming a conical-shaped head. 

 A native of the Black Sea, on the loftiest mountains of 

 Imeretia, in Upper Mongrelia ; perfectly hardy here, and at 

 Washington ; comparatively well at Newport, our youngest spe- 

 cimens here, were untouched even by the winters of 1856-7. 



