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AYood very light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact ; bands 

 of small summer cells rather broad, light-coloured, not conspicuous ; 

 medullary rays numerous, thin ; colour light brown, the sapwood 

 lighter, nearly white ; specific gravity, 0"35G5 ; ash, 0"5-i(C. S. Sargent). 



A. Fraseri has in Denmark, in some gardens, as at Hossede, 

 Enium, &c., attained a height of about 30 feet. It has also pro- 

 duced cones. A. halsamea is often wrongly called "Fraseri" in 

 nurseries. 



Prof. F. C. Schiibeler says, in his "' Yiridarium," that he has 

 not seen this species elsewhere in Norway than at Molde (62^ 44') and 

 at the Botanic Gardens at Christiania, where formerly two plants were 

 to be found. The tallest of these died in the summer of 1881, 

 on account of the roots having got into a wet subsoil ; it had several 

 times given good germinating seeds. It was then 45 feet (14 "1 m.) high, 

 with a diameter at the base of 13 inches (31 cm.), and was forty years 

 old. 



In Sweden it does well at Stockholm, and also seems inclined to 

 succeed at St. Petersburg. 



A. grandis, Lindl. in Penny Cyclop, n. 3 ; Engelm. in Bot. 

 Calif, ii. 118. Finus grandis, Dougl. in Bot. Mag. Comp. ii. 147. 

 Ficea grandis, Loud. Arb. iv. 2344, f, 2245-46. Abies Gordoniana, 

 Carr. Conif. ed. 2, 298. A. amahilis, Murr. A. oregona, hort. 



Habitat. — Vancouver's Island ; south of Mendocino County, 

 California, near the coast ; interior valleys of Western Washington 

 Territory and Oregon ; south of the Umpqua River ; Cascade Mountains, 

 below 4,000 feet elevation ; through the Blue Mountains of Oregon 

 (Cusick) to the eastern slope of the Coeur d'Allene Mountains (Cooper) ; 

 the Bitter Boot Mountains, Idaho (Watson), and the vrestern slopes 

 of the Bocky Mountams of JSTorthern Montana, Flatliead region 

 (Canby and Sargent). 



A large tree, 200-300 feet in height, with a trunk 3-5 feet in 

 diameter ; most common, and reaching its greatest development, in the 

 bottom-lands of Western Washington Territory and Oregon, in rich, 

 moist soil ; or moist mountain slopes, then much smaller, rarely 

 exceeding 100 feet in height. 



Wood very light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact ; bands 

 of small summer cells broader than in other American species, dark- 

 coloured, resinous, conspicuous ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; 

 colour light brown, the sapvrood rather lighter ; specific gravity, 0 "3545 ; 

 ash, 0*49 ; in Western Oregon maimfactured into lumber and used for 

 interior finish, packing-cases, cooperage, &c. (C. S. Sargent). 



It was the first new tree to confront the great explorer, Douglas, 

 on Cape Disappointment (the heavily wooded point south of the mouth 

 of the Columbia Biver), where his vessel touched the coast (April 1S25), 

 after having been kept by the severe winter weather outside the bar 

 for six weeks. Of the weather he declares: "The hurricanes of 



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