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Carriere nor Gordon seem to place it anywhere else; 

 though we have trees sent to us from Vermont, by r'resident 

 Wheeler, of Burlington, which he thinks identical with the 

 southern variety ; and we must confess we quite coincide with 

 him, though they may prove some sport of our ordinary double 

 spruce. At any rate, both varieties are as hardy as possible. 



P. Fraseri Hudsonica (Hudson Bay Silver fir). — ^A pretty, 

 flattish Dwarf variety of P. Fraseri, forming a dense close 

 bush, never over three or four feet high, and, of course, a per- 

 fectly hardy tree, coming, as it does, from the Hudson Bay 

 Company's territories. 



P. noUlis (Noble Silver fir). — This superb variety well de- 

 Syn. serves its name, reaching as it doe§ an altitude of two 



Finns noMiifl. hundred feet, with regularly horizontal and spreading 

 branches, and cinnamon-colored bark, forming im- 

 mense forests upon the mountains of California. It was a dis- 

 covery of Mr. Jeffrey, and proves unquestionably hardy wher- 

 ever it has been tried. We have had it five or six years ; but 

 our trees being raised from seed, instead of being grafted, were 

 very small (three inches only) when planted, and are not over 

 two to three feet high now ; and though fine in color and habit, 

 do not yet show that grand characteristic which induced 

 Mr. Downing, when in England, to describe it as the most ma- 

 jestic of evergreens. At Elvaston Castle, there are speci- 

 mens, says Mr. Buist (in his account of his visit to that 

 remarkable place), finer than the Araucaria exoelsa (the Nor- 

 folk Island pine). It is perfectly hardy near Boston, at Flushing, 

 New York, Baltimore, &c. ; and will prove equally so in all 

 the middle portions, at least, of the United States. 



P. Nordmanniana (Nordmann's Silver fir). — Another superb 

 ^„. Silver fir, quite as hardy as the preceding, 



Abies Nordmanniana. and as fine; indeed, we think even finer, 

 when young. We have had it at Woden- 

 ethe four or five years, and it has never sufiered in our severest ^ 

 winters. It comes from the mountains of the Crimea, and 

 reaches a growth of one hundred feet. 



P. pectinatu (Common Silver fir). — A lofty tree, growing 

 one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high, found all over 

 the Alps, and also on the Apennines and Pyrenees ; and yet, 



