546 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUB S. 
created great enthusiasm among tree-growers. But out of tens of 
thousands which have been imported and planted, there are pro- 
bably not a hundred fine specimens in the country. Some are 
scorched by the summer sun, and others cut down by the cold 
of winter. Sargent thinks it may be acclimated in well- 
drained, gravelly soils, and partial shade. We do not believe in 
the shade, except for the soil in which it grows. Ellwanger & 
Barry, at Rochester, many years since, imported thousands of 
plants, and out of all, but one proved hardy. That one is now 
twelve or fourteen feet high, feathered beautifully to the ground, 
and grows in a deep, warm loam, exposed on all sides to the sun 
and wind, though in a kind of shallow valley. They inform us diat 
all the trees grafted fro77t this stock 07i the roots of the Norway spruce^ 
have proved hardy. We have faith to believe, that if care is used 
to get seed from the hardiest specimens growing in the most ex- 
posed localities where they are indigenous, and grafted if necessary 
on our native spruces, we may yet grow large trees of them. It is 
not improbable that the seed usually obtained in India is from the 
most beautiful specimens growing in favored locations nearest to 
the English settlements, rather than from the more rugged and ex- 
posed trees. However this may be, whoever plants it in the 
northern States, must do so with the hope of growing it to large 
size, qualified by the risk of losing it at any time. 
In its native country, the Himalayan spruce attains great size. 
A specimen has been measured one hundred and sixty-five feet in 
height, and another twenty feet in the circumference of the trunk. 
These are the maximum measurements. It grows on the spurs of 
the Himalaya mountains, on elevations from seven thousand to 
eleven thousand feet above the sea, and is said to be found usually 
higher up than the Deodar cedar. It might be supposed that it 
would suffer more from the density of the air on the low levels of 
our own great American plain than from the cold alone, though 
this theory is contradicted by its success in England ! 
The Japanese have named this tree the Tiger’s-tail fir, on ac- 
count of the long pendulous branchlets on old trees resembling the 
tail of a tiger. 
Douglass’ Spruce Fir. Abies Douglassi. — This is one of the 
