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(which in its Rocky Mountain forms often thrives on 
the prairies), with its variety violacea, balsamea vars., 
brachvphylla, Veitchii and some others are hardy. 
Nordmanniana, nobilis and others were, however, 
cut off above the snow line. In New England and 
through much of the middle states concolor and its 
varieties prove quite satisfactory. They probably 
merge in grandis on the bottom lands of the Pacific 
coast? Nordmanniana is the best and most commonly 
planted of the European silver firs. There are two 
badly crowded and crippled trees about 70 feet high 
near Trenton, N. J., planted by Charles Downing a 
short time before he died. They were left to the care 
of lunatics, however, or they might have been the best 
in the States. Of other species from the compara- 
tively dry regions of Southern Europe Cephalonica is 
often met with in handsome specimens of 30 feet and 
more. The smaller growing variety, C. Apollinis, 
is found in Greece at elevations of 1,500 feet; but 
there is some fear that all varieties of Cephalonica are 
too early in growth for the South. They are liable 
Gardener' s Chronicle. 
ABIES RELIGIOSA IN CORNWALL, ENG. 
to injury by spring frosts. The common European 
silver fir, A. pectinata, in several varieties is some- 
times seen in good size. Abies Pinsapo, from the 
mountains of Southern Spain especially, and those of 
Morocco maybe, cannot be trusted north of Baltimore, 
although it exists as a protected starveling north to 
New York. Of the magnificent Pacific coast species 
Gardener's Chronicle. 
BRANCH AND CONE OF ABIES RELIGIOSA. 
it is best to be shv on all the Atlantic slope, but if seed 
can be had from the higher altitudes young plants of 
such as lasiocarpa. Hook, (sold as sub-alpina) ,- brac- 
teata, magnifica and nobilis may sometimes be kept a 
few years. 
Abies Cilicica is found from Afghanistan north to 
Mount Taurus at elevations of 4,000 or 5,000 feet. A. 
numidica is found on the Algerian mountains some- 
times with Cedrus Atlantica. It has been kept for a 
few years as far north as New York. Webbiana and 
its variety Pindrow (the latter growing up to 10,000 
feet of elevation in the dark, gloomy forests of the 
N. W. Himalayas), cannot be depended upon as hardy 
at the north. The beautiful A. religiosa grows on the 
mountains of Mexico 1 and Central America up to the 
timber limit where it stunts. Lower down in shel- 
tered canyons is is grand in symmetrical cones of ver- 
dure 150 feet in height. 
Keteleeria has 1 or 2 species natives of the moun- 
tains of China. K. Fortunei was highly spoken of by 
Robert Fortune, who described the only tree he found 
as growing in the grounds of a temple, being in habit 
like a Lebanon cedar, and bearing handsome, erect 
purple cones. It was scarce for many years, then 
cones were produced in Northern Italy, and now it 
has been found growing abundantly along with other 
conifers on the Chinese mountains. A second species 
or form is called K. Davidiana. K. Fortunei has 2 
cotyledons confined in the epiderm as in some Cvcaclae. 
The leaves are light green, obtuse and rigid, but not 
silvery beneath. Neither kind seems to be in the 
States, probably because the English have given them 
a poor character. They might do better here than 
with them. James MacPherson. 
