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Gartenfl. 18G0, 113, and 1861, 286 (cum ic). A. cephalonlca /3 

 arcadica, Henk. and Hochst. Syn. 182. A. pelopo7mesiaca, Haage. 

 Pinus peloponnesiaca, hort. Ahies pectinata /3 Beginae Amalise, Cat. 

 Sem. Hort. Vrastislav, 1863. Finus Ahies, Du Roi(6) Reginse Amalids, 

 Heldr. Christ. Europ. Abiet. 



This variety has been brought into notice by M. Heldreich, of 

 Athens, under the name of Abies Begins Amalix, or the New Arca- 

 dian Fir, and with a statement that it was first obtained in 1856 by 

 M. Schmidt, the Curator of the Royal Gardens at Athens, who at the 

 time considered it new, and distinct from the Grecian, or Apollo 

 Fir, and gave to it the name of Finus peloponnesiaca, which name 

 M. Heldreich afterwards changed to that of Ahies Beginse Amaliae, in 

 compliment to the Queen of Greece, a great patron of gardening. M. 

 Schmidt, however, had never seen the tree, nor was anyone aware of 

 its peculiarities, until Messrs. Balsamaki and Origoni, two inspectors 

 of the royal forests, reached Khrysovitsi, a village in Central Arcadia, 

 near Tripolitza, in the Morea, where, at an elevation of about 1,500 

 feet above the sea, they discovered a whole forest of this Fir, stretch- 

 ing in a north-westerly direction towards Alonistena, and covering 

 Mount Rhaudia and the adjacent valleys, thus having an extent of 

 above three leagues in length and one and a half broad. It is called 

 by the country people ' ' Hemeron Elaton " (Tame Fir), on account of 

 the lower situations of its forests on the mountains, and the ready 

 means for obtaining its timber for domestic purposes ; while, on the 

 other hand, they apply the term "Agrion Elaton" (Wild Fir) to 

 Ficea cephalonlca, because of the inaccessible and lofty places where it 

 in general grows. The inhabitants living near the large Fir forests 

 are in the habit of ringing the stems, or cutting off the heads of the 

 more vigorous trees at about two or three feet from the ground, for the 

 purpose of obtaining the resin which flows from the wounds and upper 

 part of the stumps, which stumps afterwards throw out a number 

 of symmetrically formed shoots, the principal ones of which eventually'-, 

 if undisturbed, become leaders, and form stems frequently 20 feet 

 high and a foot in diameter (G. Gordon, " The Pinetum," 1875). 



A. cilicica, Carr. Conif. ed. 2, 307. Finus cilicica, Ant. and 

 Kotschy, Oest. Bot. Wochenblatt, Dec. 1853, 409. P. Tschugatslcoi, 

 Fisch. Mss. Ahies Tschugatskoi, Laws, ex Gord. Pinet. Suppl. 50. 

 Ficea cilicica, Ranch ex Gord. Pinet. I.e. 



A tree from 40 to CO feet high, inhabiting Mount Taurus, in Cilicia, 

 in north-west Glillock, in company with the Cedar of Lebanon, at an 

 elevation of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, in Antitaurus and Afghanistan. 



Seems to be hardy in Denmark. 



A. concolor, Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 1850, 

 V. 210. Finus concolor, Engelm. ex Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 

 426. Ficea concolor, Gord. Pinet. ed. 2, 216. Ahies Loiviana, Murr 

 A. grandis. 



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