84 ABIES, OR SILVERJFIRS 
excelleth darkness,” so does the Webbiana rise su- 
perior to the Pindrow in the vivid underneath of the 
leaf. 
The light-coloured branchlets of the Pindrow 
gleam at you between the leaves as they do in the 
Webbiana, but on close inspection they will be found 
to be composed of a softer and different surface than 
that of the corrugated Webbiana, but we have 
pointed out some differences, which in this case call 
for less mental confusion than such subjects often 
present. 
A. PECTINATA, OR COMMON SILVER Fir.— 
You may tire of mountains and rivers, you may tire of the sea, but 
you can never tire of trees. 
Lorp BEACONSFIELD, 
So spoke the departed statesman (more familiarly 
known as “ Dizzy ’’) of the Victorian era. 
There are some of us old enough to recall a cartoon 
in Punch that depicted the eminent statesman swung 
in a hammock under a tree in his garden, and mur- 
muring self-complacently a measure of an Ariel’s 
spirit song : 
Dizzily, dizzily let me drowse 
Under the shadow of Hughenden boughs, 
Though he, Lord Beaconsfield and ex-Prime: Minis- 
ter of a Victorian age, was probably reposing in 
Virgilian attitude, after the manner of Tityrus, under 
the covering of a spreading beech on this particular 
occasion, we take it that the quoted expression of his 
untiring admiration for trees referred rather to the 
trees of landscapes generally than to any tree in 
particular. Be that as it may, it was a high compli- 
ment he paid to them; and if any Conifer deserves 
its share of the praise bestowed more than other, it 
