76 ABIES, OR SILVER FIRS 
The ideally pectinate arrangement of its long 
grass-green shiny leaves, which span from tip to tip 
a good 3 inches, its upper rank leaves half the length 
of the lower, its notched apex and clearly-showing 
white stomata bands, all conspire to help identifica- 
tion. 
Again, its olive-green and sometimes orange-brown 
tinted branchlets, with what is generally described 
as reddish, but sometimes appears as almost white, 
pubescence; are also characteristic. Its grey bark, 
with here and there the appearance of faint orange 
tints, is smooth but for being plentifully covered 
with blisters, which when broken emit a most fragrant 
flow of turpentine, of a most gratifying nature to the 
scent-sense of man and woman. 
There are other lesser aids to the recognition of a 
tree that future generations may have more to say 
about than we have, at such a comparatively early 
stage of its existence with us. 
A. Low1ana.— 
At every impulse of the moving breeze 
The fir grove murmurs with a sea-like sound. 
: WorDSWORTR. 
Sometimes we have heard the A. Lowiana compared 
with the A. Grandis. But the A. Lowiana has its 
white stomatic bands on both surfaces of its leaves, 
while the A. Grandis has stomata only upon the 
lower surface. This should at once in theory—if 
theory goes for anything—dispose of any suspicion 
of their connection. If another proof were wanted, 
there exists the fact that the leaves in the upper 
rank of the Lowiana are nearly as long as those in 
the lower rank, while in the A. Grandis they are 
only a little more than half the length. Most of us 
have been taught that if we wish to accumulate a 
little mental confusion between any two trees, 
