Show u i r C irai WE V A FINE EVERGREEN A beautiful fir worthy of tile dIt attention or Lauds calto Gatt leners on the grounds of the rural kural nev yorker a specimen of is gr fir has stood uninjured by heat or fro trust st for some borne fourteen years af Z aj r tg 10 v lempp W 4 t ww 1 I y rp 4 af rill FIR the journal mentioned says IV we tylre know however of a tree of about th ahr same sam e age and size being killed loomand I 1 coot and branch less than two miles from tho the i rural grounds during a bevere winter winte rJ an ali unusually illy dry fall preceding ma amny have caused its death rather than mhd severe winter ns its other conifers regarded as perfectly hardy were also killed thu beautiful fir is said sai 1 I to be hardy in ill roch t 4 est ester erand and inay stand stanl still till colder climates was waa first covered discovered dis di by pi ro upon the adsuar mountains it in ill elevation of feet sume some of thu the trees were feet in height it is found also on oil the crimean mountains the leaves are a full i rich inch in length of a I 1 d dirk ark very glossy green on tile upper tipper surface sui face and of a glan color underneath making a 1 pleasing contrast conti ast not unlike that been in alcocks spruce pruce A it is certainly ceita a fino icena and iid worth worthy y of a 1 place in every collection the cut here reproduced is from a photograph of the specimen alluded to |