THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 509 
Carriere nor Gordon seem to place it anywhere else ; 
though we have trees sent to us from Vermont, by President 
Wheeler, of Burlington, which he thinks identical with the 
southern variety ; and we must confess we quite coincide with 
him, though they may prove some sport of our ordinary double 
spruce. At any rate, both varieties are as hardy as possible. 
j P. Fraseri Hudsonica (Hudson Bay Silver fir). — A pretty, 
flattish Dwarf variety of P. Fraseri , forming a dense close 
bush, never over three or four feet high, and, of course, a per- 
fectly hardy tree, coming, as it does, from the Hudson Bay 
Company’s territories. 
P. nobilis (Noble Silver fir). — -This superb variety well de- 
g yU ' serves its name, reaching as it does an altitude of two 
Pinus nobUis. hundred feet, with regularly horizontal and spreading 
branches, and cinnamon-colored bark, forming im- 
mense forests upon the mountains of California. It was a dis- 
covery of Mr. Jeffrey, and proves unquestionably hardy wher- 
ever it has been tried. We have had it five or six years ; but 
our trees being raised from seed, instead of being grafted, were 
very small (three inches only) when planted, and are not over 
two to three feet high now ; and though fine in color and habit, 
do not yet show that grand characteristic which induced 
Mr. Downing, when in England, to describe it as the most ma- 
jestic of evergreens. At Elvastan Castle, there are speci- 
mens, says Mr. Buist (in his account of his visit to that 
remarkable place), finer than the Araucaria excelsa (the Nor- 
folk Island pine). It is perfectly hardy near Boston, at Flushing, 
New York, Baltimore, &c. ; and will prove equally so in all 
the middle portions, at least, of the United States. 
P. Nordmanniana (Nordmann’s Silver fir). — Another superb 
Sy U ' Silver fir, quite as hardy as the preceding, 
Abies Nordmanniana. an d as fi ne ; indeed, we think even finer, 
when young. We have had it at Woden- 
ethe four or five years, and it has never suffered in our severest 
winters. It comes from the mountains of the Crimea, and 
reaches a growth of one hundred feet. 
P. pectinata (Common Silver fir). — A lofty tree, growing 
one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high, found all over 
the Alps, and also on the Apennines and Pyrenees ; and yet, 
