"W. U. K.," Abingdcn, Va., writes: "I send you by mail to-day a box containing cones and branches of an evergreen I find growing on the top of White Top Mountain, 5700 feet above sea-level; also a balsam-nut, 300 or 400 feet higher. I send it to know what it is; it is known here by the name of Lashorn, rather Lash-horn. The whole southern and southwestern face of the mountain has no timber, except here and there clumps of dwarfed birch and beech-grass growing. This evergreen Lash-horn grows upon the summit - some splendid trees growing out where not crowded. I cut the branches I send from some seedling I brought out nine to twelve inches high; the cones I gathered from an old tree. I think they are last year cones. I had supposed heretofore it was the American white spruce, but do not know."

[ Our correspondent's determination is correct. It is the true white spruce - Abies alba. The Editor has found it as far south as Roan Mountain, in North Carolina, where it is in comparative abundance and makes a good timber tree. It does not do so well at low elevations. - Ed. G. M.]