HYEEID CONIFERS. 



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M. DE Vilmorin's Hybrid Abies. 



Doubts as to the hybrid character of some of the Conifers before 

 mentioned may be entertained. In the trees raised by M. Croux and by 

 M. Moser conjecture gives place to certainty. We have also the direct 



Fig. 29. — Picea Moseei x , Shoot and Leaves, showing both Surfaces and Section. 



evidence of our late friend Henry de Yilmorin as to the tree raised by him. 

 This tree exists in his garden at Verrieres, where it has been seen by 

 numerous botanists, and where I also saw it in 1895. And now thanks 



