EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 553 
The Pyramidal Silver Fir. F. p. pyramidata . — Another 
German variety, a little less fastigiate than the preceding, with a 
pendulous tendency in the smaller shoots. 
The Tortuous Silver Fir. P. p. tortuosa. — A German 
variety, with crooked and tortuous branches and branchlets. 
The Oblate Dwarf Silver Fir. F. 
p. compacta. ( P. p. nana ? ) — This is a 
charming, very low dwarf variety j so broad 
and low, that we have ventured to add to 
its title the word ohlate to make the name 
more characteristic of the form, which is in 
breadth nearly double its height. The color 
is a very warm, almost golden, green. Height from two to three 
feet. 
The Cilician Silver Fir. Picea cilicica ( PJeiodada). — This 
is a very distinct, and very beautiful species, from the mountains of 
Asia Minor. Gordon describes it as “ a handsome tree of a pyra- 
midal shape, thickly furnished with vertical branches to the ground, 
and growing fifty feet high, and three feet in diameter.” The 
branches are thickly set on the stems, and the branchlets are much 
more irregular and intermingled than those of the common silver 
fir. A fine specimen, growing in the grounds of Parsons & Co. at 
Flushing, L. I., has a form and expression such as one might 
imagine from a cross between the sturdy Cephalonian fir and the 
graceful Himalayan spruce. It seems to us that it will make a tree 
of more graceful outline and varied shadows than the old silver fir ; 
but its mature character, as an ornamental tree, and its hardiness, 
cannot yet be determined. 
The Cephalonian Fir. Picea Cephalonica. — 'This hardy and 
sturdy-looking evergreen takes a somewhat similar rank among the 
Piceas that our native black spruce does among the Abies. Its 
leaves stand at right angles and rigidly all around the branches, 
instead of being disposed in lines on the sides of the twigs only ; 
and the branches, though numerous, and in tiers, on the main 
stem, have branchlets in every direction, instead of being in level 
Fig, 176. 
