. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. iful hardy pine, that is well distinguishedby its narrow branch-spread and silvery greenfoliage. In a specimen of 80 feet in height thebranch-spread is only 18 feet, though ample spacehas been allowed for development. The leavesare about 3 inches long, arranged in fives, ratherrigid and rough on the margin. Cones are pro-duced plentifully all over the tree, and resemblegreatly those of P. Strobus, bu
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. iful hardy pine, that is well distinguishedby its narrow branch-spread and silvery greenfoliage. In a specimen of 80 feet in height thebranch-spread is only 18 feet, though ample spacehas been allowed for development. The leavesare about 3 inches long, arranged in fives, ratherrigid and rough on the margin. Cones are pro-duced plentifully all over the tree, and resemblegreatly those of P. Strobus, but they are smallergenerally, being 5 inches long, nearly 2 inches indiameter, and cylindrical. They are usually bentor curved. A peculiarity of the bark is that itsplits into square plates, but is never ragged oruntidy, and is of a pleasing ash grey colour onthe younger, and darker on the older portions. Itproduces timber rapidly, a specimen at Esher inSurrey having attained to fully 70 feet in heightin forty years, with a clean and well-rounded bolethat girths 7 feet at a yard from the ground. Indampish, loamy, or sandy soil it grows well. As a timber-producing tree P. monticola is likely. PIXUS MOXTICOLA AT MURTHLY , S5 feet. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 143 to attract attention, the quality of that producedin two widely different parts of this country beingsuch as to warrant us in speaking highly of tree is very hardy, several of the healthiestspecimens I have seen being in the environs ofEdinburgh. A variety with stouter and broaderleaves and having the young cones purple insteadof pale green as in the species, has been namedP, monticola porphyrocarpa, Murray. P. MURICATA, Don. (Synonym : P. Edgariana,Hartweg.) California. 1846.—This is a verydistinct tree, not only from the massive well-rounded top, but on account of the large anduniformly arranged branches, which in mostspecimens break out from the main stem at a fewfeet from ground level. The thickly clus
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