. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVII. CONIFERS : yl BIES. 1031 that of any other spruce; the leaves are also less numerous, longer, more pointed, at a more open angle with the branches, and of a pale bluish green. The male catkins are pendulous, on long footstalks, and of a brownish yellow. The female catkins are ova
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVII. CONIFERS : yl BIES. 1031 that of any other spruce; the leaves are also less numerous, longer, more pointed, at a more open angle with the branches, and of a pale bluish green. The male catkins are pendulous, on long footstalks, and of a brownish yellow. The female catkins are ovate and pendulous., When ripe, the cones are small, of a lengthened oval in shape, and a light brown colour; the scales are loose and thin, round or bluntly pointed, with entire edges. The seeds are minute,? with a very small wing, and ripen a month eai'lier than those of the black spruce. When the tree is agitated with the wind, or when the cones are gently struck with a stick, the seeds drop out, and fall slowly to the ground with a tremulous fluttering motion, resembling a cloud of small pale brown moths. The rate of growth, in the climate of London, in sandy soil some- what moist, is from 12 ft. to 15 ft. in 10 years. In 30 years, the tree will attain the height of from 30 ft. to 40 ft.; but in dry soils it seldom reaches either this age or height : indeed, all the American spruces may be considered, in England, as short-lived trees. I 5. A, Ni^GRA Poii: The black Spruce Fir. Iitenlification. Poir. Diet. Encyc, 6. p. 620.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 176. Synonymrs. Pinus nigra Ait. Hart. Kew. 3. p. 370.; F. mariSna F/tr. Beyt. 3. p. 23.; v4"bies ma- ligna Wangh. Beyt. p. 75.; double Spruce ; noire Epinette, Epinette d la Bi^re, in Cnnttda. EitgraviTigs. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 37. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 147.; the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st. edit., vol. viii.; and our Jig. 1929. Spec, Char., ^c. Leaves solitary, regularly disposed all round the branc
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