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28 ft.’j at Grimston, 13 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In Ireland, at Dublin , in the GlasnevinBotanic Garden, 35 years planted, it is 35 ft. high. In France, in the Park of Clervaux , 28 yearsplanted, it is 39 ft. high. In Bavaria, in the English Garden at Munich , 18 years planted, it is14ft. high.

1 5. A. Smith ia'na Wall. Smith’s, or the Himalayan, Spruce Fir.

Synonymes. Plnus Smithidmi Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 24. t, 346., Cat., No. 6063., Lamb . Pin., S._ t. 88. j P • Khitirow Royle Ill., t. 84. f. 1 .; A. Morinda Hort j Raga, or Raggoe, in the Parbuteelanguage.

Engravings. Wall. PI. As. Rar., t. 246.; Royle III., t. 84. f. 4. j Lamb . Pin., 3. t. 88.; and our fig. 2229.from Royle.

Spec. Char., Src. Leaves compressed, tetragonal, straight, awl-shaped, sharp-pointed. Cones ovate-oblong; scales obovate-roundish, coriaceous, rigid,smooth on the margin. Crest of the anthers roundish, irregularly cre-nated. (D. Don. in Lamb . Pin.) Leaves, in Royle’s specimen, and in theHorticultural Society’s Garden, from 1 in. to 1^ in. in length. Cone , inRoyle’s figure, 6 in. long, and 2|in. broad; scale If in. in length, and thesame in breadth at the widest part. Seeds about the size of those of thecommon spruce; with the wing, f in. long, and fin. broad. A pyramidaldrooping-branched tree; growing, in the Himalayas , to the height of 50 ft.Introduced in 1818.

Varieties. Dr. Royle observes that the leaves of A. Smithidwa, in Wallich’sfigure, are much broader than those in his figure; and that they may pro-bably be different species or varieties. Judging from the leaves, the treein the Horticultural Society’s Garden appears to be Dr. Royle’s variety.

Description, Src. A pyramidal tree, 50 ft.or more in height, with a light grey bark.

Branchlets remotely verticillate, spreading,somewhat pendulous. Unexpanded budscopper-coloured. Leaves turned in everydirection; from 1 in. to 1J in. long; erectand spreading, fine, compressed-tetragonal,straight, awl-shaped, stiff and mucronate,rigid; pale green, and somewhat glaucous,arising from a very faintly marked silvery linein the grooves between the angles. Malecatkins solitary, thick, oval-oblong, obtuse;scarcely 1 in. long; yellow, with numerousoblong-obtuse, revolute, brown scales, tornon the margin. Anthers linear-wedge-shaped ; 2-celled, opening beneath longitudi-nally by two fissures ; 3 lines long; crownedwith a roundish, slightly crenulated, carti-laginous, rather rigid, convex crest. Cones terminal, solitary, pendulous, ovate-oblong,cylindrical, 4—7 in. long, swelled in themiddle; scales obovate-roundish, coriace-ous, rigid, quite entire, rarely cracked ;brown, convex, smooth, loosely imbricated.

Seeds wedge-shaped, angled; brown, with a crustaceous testa ; wing unequallysided, obovate, thinly membranaceous, dark yellow, truncate at the apex, obso-letely crenulated. {Lamb., Laws. , and obs.) According to Royle, a very fineresin is secreted on the cones, which would yield a superior kind of turpentine.The rate of growth of this tree in British gardens is almost as rapid as that°f the common spruce, perhaps equally so. A tree at Hopetoun House,raised from seed m 1818, was, in June, 1837, 17ft. Gin. high; though theearly growth of the plant had been checked by its having been kept fortwo years in a pot. The tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden liasbeen 8 years planted, and is 12 ft. high. The Himalaya spruce is a native°f Kamaon and Sirmore; and, according to Professor Don, it is chiefly