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foliage and tufted moss appear to advantage. I 

 may add, tliat tlie Silver Fir is perliaps tlie hardiest 

 of its tribe. It will out-face tlie soutli-west vyind ; 

 it will bear witliout shrinking even tlie sea-air ; so 

 that one advantage, at least, attends a plantation of 

 Silver Mrs ; you may have it, where you can have 

 no other, and a plantation of Silver Firs may be 

 better than no plantation at all. At the same 

 time I have heard that it is nice in its soil, and that 

 an improver may be liable to disappointment who 

 plants it in ground where the Oak will not thrive. 

 I know of no other species of Fir in England 

 that is Avorth mentioning. The Hemlock Spruce 

 is a beautiful loose plant, but it never, I believe, 

 attains any size ; and the Newfoundland, or Black 

 Spruce, is another dwarfish tree. In that cha- 

 racter, however, it is often beautiful, and its small 

 red cones are an ornament to it. In the vast 

 Pine forests of North America, and in those which 

 hang beetling over the cliffs of the Baltic, the 

 picturesque eye might probably see many a grand 

 production of the Fir kind which is hitherto little 

 known, or, if known, would appear there in so 

 improved a character, as to seem wholly new. In 



