Archive image from page 399 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam01bail Year: 1900 360 CONIFERS which they soon become spindly, they thrive best on loose, sandy soils, and can endure dry soils, the White Pine adapting itself perhaps best to the clay soils with- out detriment to its development.
Archive image from page 399 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam01bail Year: 1900 360 CONIFERS which they soon become spindly, they thrive best on loose, sandy soils, and can endure dry soils, the White Pine adapting itself perhaps best to the clay soils with- out detriment to its development. On wet soils pines are, as a rule, docidodlv out of place, although the Red Pine IP. r â â¢...â ',1, r,f Hie north, and the Loblolly {P. Ttedi:). :â - '. ' In r southern species are capable of suppiniii htions. For such situations here, howevn. I 11 itir furnishes better material, âthe Cham:i_-v;, I'.ir I-, 1 iiii\:is and Taxodium. These trees of the bog and swamp are, howeverâit should not be over- lookedâcapable of thriving even better on drier soils. They are merely indifferent to moisture conditions at the foot. The shallow-rooted spruces are trees of the higher mountain ranges, and are, therefore, more adapted to field pine moist and cool situations, although some of them, the Norway Spruce, the Blue Spruce of Colorado and the northern White Spruce willâthe former, at least, during its juvenile periodâendure more droughty situations. The firs, too, are rather more species of northern climates and high altitudes, the Red Fir, so-called {Pseuclotsuga tuj:ifoUa), which is not a fir proper, be- ing, perhaps, best capable of supporting drier and hot- ter situations. Tlin most ornamental, and, in many re- spects, most sprvi.( ..I' i|]i- lirs, Abies iVordmanni- ana, from the (_':in.:isii-., ,i|is its magnificent dense and dark green l'Ii;i-i n, ii,, warm but moist climate of Washington, while our must ornamental AMes concolor CONIFERS from Colorado will
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