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A. e. Clanbrasiliana (Lord Clanbrasil’s variety). — Exceed- 
ingly dwarf and perfectly hardy ; leaves, only half an inch long, 
and the mature plant not over three feet. 
A. e. elegans. — A pretty Dwarf har,dy variety, with slender 
gray foliage reaching the height of four or five feet. 
A. e. diffusa , A. e. compacta , A. e. pumila, A. e. attenuata 
— are four Dwarf varieties of the Norway spruce, similar 
in growth and general appearance to those mentioned above, 
and very hardy. In fact, wherever the Norway spruce 
can be grown, these eight or ten dwarf varieties can, and 
when grouped with the dwarf pine, P. strobus pumilis, and 
the Dwarf Scotch fir, P. sylvestris pumilis , neither, of which 
ever exceed four or five feet, they make a very interesting and 
striking plantation. 
A. Menziesii — (Menzies’ fir) known also A. Sitcliensis — is a 
tall tree, with light glaucous- colored foliage, growing sixty to 
seventy feet high ; a native of northern California and the island 
of Sitcha; quite hardy here. Our specimens, which have been 
out some five or six years, occasionally get scorched by the 
summer ; in the latitude of Philadelphia it does, likewise, very 
well, as also at Cincinnati, Newport, Washington, Boston, 
Flushing, in New Jersey, and even at Clinton, N. Y., when in 
shade. 
A. obovata (Obovate-coned spruce), known and imported by 
us as A. Wittmanniana , is as yet com- 
paratively new. Judging from the appear- 
ance of our specimens now, we should sup- 
pose it would prove hardy, which is most likely to be the case 
with firs coming from so high an altitude as the Altai moun- 
tains. It is also found in Siberia. It resembles the common 
spruce. It is quite hardy at Flushing, which is the only place 
we can discover where it has been tried. 
A. orientalis (Eastern spruce). — A peculiar tree, with dense 
short foliage covering the branches on all sides, growing 
seventy to eighty feet high, and forming a conical-shaped head. 
A native of the Black Sea, on the loftiest mountains of 
Imeretia, in Upper Mongrelia ; perfectly hardy here, and at 
Washington ; comparatively well at Newport, our youngest spe- 
cimens here, were untouched even by the winters of 1856-7. 
Syn. 
A. Schrenkiana. 
A. Ajanensis. 
