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and fifty feet, with a naked stem of sixty feet. It was discov- 
ered by Mr. Jeffrey. 
P. balsamea (the Balm of Gilead fir), has already been des- 
cribed in the early edition of this work, and is too well known 
as the common Balsam fir of the country to require further 
remarks. 
P. balsamea longifolia , is a much finer and equally hardy 
variety, with longer leaves, introduced from Booth’s nursery, at 
Hamburgh. 
P. balsamea variegata — A variegated variety of our Com- 
mon balsam — pretty and hardy — the new growth being yellow ; 
though attractive in the spring, yet when the new shoots become 
ripened, the bright yellow becomes a little dingy, and we should 
hardly give it a prominent place in plantations. We have also 
a variety with a silvery instead of a golden variegation. 
P. Bracteata (Leafy-bracted Silver fir). — This is a very rare 
variety as yet in this country, and will probably 
^Abies Bracteata. P rove as hard y as P - Webbiana, and, like it, be 
apt to lose its leader. It was discovered by 
Douglas on the mountains of Columbia river, and afterwards 
in Upper California. It is a tall, slender- growing tree, one 
hundred and twenty feet high, straight as an arrow, and only 
two or three feet in diameter ; sometimes only the upper third 
of the tree is clothed with branches. 
P. Cephalonica (Mount Enos fir). — This is perhaps one of 
the finest and most reliable of the new Silver firs. We have 
specimens eight and ten feet high, perfectly untouched by the 
remarkable winters of 1855-6, and without any advantages 
of position or protection. 
It is called the Wild cedar by the Greeks, and was first sent 
home by General Napier, when Governor of Cephalonia. It 
has since been discovered on the different mountains of Greece, 
on the Sacred Apollo, on Mount Parnassus, on Mount JEtna, and 
also on Mount Olympus ; it has, consequently, among its other 
merits, at least that of having early classical associations. A 
full grown tree is about sixty feet high. 
P . Fraseri (Fraser’s Silver fir) — A variety probably of our 
Syn common Balsam fir, a little lighter, we think, in 
Pinns Fraseri. color ; supposed to have originated in the moun- 
Abies do. tains of Carolina and Pennsylvania. Neither 
