. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . itain should suggest a moreextended trial of it, especially in eximsed places. It is perfectly hardybiit grows somewhat slowly, and such too is the experience of it inthe north-eastern States of Xortli America. Abies magnifica. A gigantic tree 150—250 or more feet high, the trunk {Ject of tiie present notice. It would now hesuperfluous to enter into any examination of the causes
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . itain should suggest a moreextended trial of it, especially in eximsed places. It is perfectly hardybiit grows somewhat slowly, and such too is the experience of it inthe north-eastern States of Xortli America. Abies magnifica. A gigantic tree 150—250 or more feet high, the trunk {Ject of tiie present notice. It would now hesuperfluous to enter into any examination of the causes of the confusion, for the clearingup of wliidi science and hoiticulture are mainl\- indebted to Dr. Maxwell Masters in whoseelaborate articles in the Gardeners Chronicle and Journal of Botany quoted above,,the ijuestion is fully discussed and finally set at rest. t That is to say—a meridional range of nearly 30°. MAGXIFICA. 5r. from til. lusc. Ill (iivat Uritaiu a formal tivc nf vatliev slow -rowtli,the trunk rovcred -with smooth asli-lirowu 1>ark. Branches short incomiiarison with height of trunk, rioidly horizontal and raniitieil laterallyonly; branehlets opposite, rarely alternate, and inclined forwards at anangle varying from 45 to 60° to theiv jirimaries, short, rigid and covered with reddishbrown bark. Buds small, ovate, acute, red-dish brown. Leavesl)ersistent eight—, obscurely four-angled, obtuse or suVacute, 0-5 — 1 -5 inchlong, greyish or glaucous Fig. 130. Foliage of fiitile biaiiclUet (»tis mf/g)n>fo. green with two pale stomatiferous lines onthe lower side, spirally crowded around the liranchlets, the longerones on the under side of sterile branchlets pseudo-distichous inthree—four ranks ; the shorten ones on the upper side either erector pointing in the direction of the axis at a greater or less angleto it ; on the fertile branchlets all upturned and more or lessfalc
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