THE BALSAM FIR - A FRASERI POIR.
This balsam fir, much more luxuriant in foliage, and worthier of cultivation as an ornamental tree, is native to the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. The purple cones are ornamented by pale yellow cut-toothed bracts that turn back over the edge of the plain scale. Limited in range,
but forming forests between the limits of four and six thousand feet in altitude, this tree is confined to local uses as lumber and fuel.
All the other firs of America are Western, and among these are some of the tree giants of the world.