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indeed, tliey must needs have more variety. There is of this again an 

 altered form called Magnifica or Rohusta. 



Pick A ApOLLINIS : The Silver Fir of Apollo. 



This is a sportive-foliaged, smooth-barked, small-sized, quasi form 

 of the beautiful Pinsapo ; hardy and useful enough for adding 

 variety to a pinetum. 



PiGEA BalSAME A The Balm of Gilead Fir. 



This is a Xorth American, and the prototype of the Dwarf Silver 

 Firs; attaining heights of from twenty-five to thirty feet, with leaves 

 from half to one inch long, entire, spreading, solitary, scattered on the 

 leading shoots, and more or less irregularly two-rowed on the laterals, 

 green above and silvery below. The cones are from three to four inches 

 long, and from one to two inches broad, greenish purple when young, 

 when matured violet jDurple ; the seeds are very small and large winged. 



This is a useful little tree, hardy, compact-growing, and well adapted 

 for planting where small sized ornamental trees are desired. There 

 are the following varieties of it: — ^rei;^/oZ^ a, (short-leaved,) Longifolia, 

 (long-leaved,) Nana or Fraseri, (the Dwarf, and of this there is again 

 a sub- variety, Hudsonica, scarcely ever growing more than a yard 

 high,) and Variegata, (the variegated.) 



Pice A Bragteata: Leafy-Bracted Silver Fir. 



This is another Calif ornian, partaking somewhat of the nature of its 

 congener Nobilis, (though a much less beautiful tree,) and of that of the 

 common kind Pecthiata; it attains heights of from eighty to one hundred 

 and twenty feet with a straight slender trunk ; with leaves from two 

 to three inches long, and cones from three to four inches long, and two 

 inches broad ; generally in clusters. It is tolerably hardy, but particular 

 as to soil and situation, and predisposed to start growing early, conse- 

 quently frequently injured from spring frost. Wherever it is desired 

 to plant it in a pinetum in this country, it should have a northern 

 rather than a southern aspect assigned to it. 



PiGEA CepHALONIGA: Mount Enos Fir. 



This is the Greek form of the Pinsapo Silver Fir ; an alter ego ; — 

 having larger leaves and more conspicuous silvery bands on their under 

 face ; more prominent buds, with the branches less liberally clothed with 

 foliage, and more fastidious as to soil and situation, early in its growth, and 

 consequent injury in our climate ; and whoever may have Ficea Finsapo, 

 requires not Ficea Ceplialonica^ unless indeed for variety, for it is but 

 a quasi- species of that most distinct and lovely Silver Fir. 



PiGEA CiligICA: The Cilician Silver Fir. 



