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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
defcriptions were made. Dr Newberry’s looks a trifle larger and more obefe, but that is all. On the 
other hand, Dr Newberry fays that the cones of his trees were purple and pendent, while Mr Murray’s 
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were pale-fawn coloured; and, from the fpecimens received, it was not poflible to fay whether they are 
pendent when growing or not. We reconcile the difference in colour by fuppofing them to be purple 
while immature, pale-fawn when ripe. The appearance of the tree, as figured by Dr Newberry in a plate 
accompanying his defcription, has given us more difficulty. It certainly appears to be fomething very 
different from Mr Murray’s tree, as fliewn in the drawing of it which we have received from him, and which 
is figured in the accompanying plate; but its refemblance to the Deodar, which entirely correfponds with 
Lobb’s independent ftatement that the tree he fpeaks of much refembled that fpecies, fufficiently indicates 
that Murray and Lobb have got hold of the fame tree; and the only reafon we can fee why Dr New¬ 
berry’s A. IVilliamfonii is not the fame, is, that the tree figured in his plate has not the molt diftant refem¬ 
blance to the Deodar. The light grace and fomewhat drooping elegance are wholly wanting. It is like a 
ftiff heavy Norway Spruce; and we are driven to adopt the opinion of Mr William Murray, who, when he 
faw Dr N ewberry’s plate, remarked that the tree was either very badly drawn, or was different from his A . 
Hookeriana. Looking to the clofe refemblance to each other of the figures of all the different kinds of 
Abies given in Dr Newberry’s plates {A . grandis, A. amabilis , A . Donglofii, and A. Williamfonii we 
incline to adopt the former view, and fuppofe that the fault lies in the drawing of Dr Newberry’s trees. 
Should that be the cafe, it would remove all embarraffment from the fubjedt, as the defcription and woodcuts 
are in other refpedts fo identical with thofe of A. Hookeriana , that we find the greateft difficulty in believing 
them to be diftindt. The points remaining for elucidation are, whether Mr Murray’s Abies Hookeriana 
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has (as we have affumed) its cones growing pendent, and purple in their earlier ftage. That they are not fo, 
but pale-fawn coloured in the dry ftate in which they reach us as fpecimens, ought not to weigh with us much. 
The tree was named by Mr Murray after Sir William Jackfon Hooker, a name too celebrated to 
require additional notice by way of information. 
Introduced in 1854. 
^ilture. Properties , &c. —The fhort time that this fpecies has been introduced into this country, and 
the little that is known about it in its native forefts, limits our obfervations under this head to the remark 
that it feems perfectly hardy; that the timber is hard, tough, and durable; and that, from its great beauty, 
the tree is likely to prove a valuable acquifition to our flock of ufeful and ornamental Coniferae. 
Commercial Stati/lics. —The firft lot of feeds brought to this country was fold by us in January 1855 
at the rate of £4, 4s. per 100, and cones with feeds at 10s. 6d. each. In 1856, one-year feedlings realifed 
5s. each, and two-year feedlings 2s. 6d. In i860, plants 4 to 9 inches high fold at 5s. to 7s. 6d. Prefent 
prices (1863) for plants 6 to 9 inches, is. 6d. ; 15 to 18 inches, 7s. 6d. each. 
