. 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. Gardening. Tree 100-250 ft.; trunk 4^6 ft. in diam.: , stomatiferous on the upper surface, on fertile branches often falcate and thickened and keeled above: cones ob- long, gray-green, dark purple or bright canars'-yellow, 3-5 in. long; bracts shor- ter than their scales. Western North America from southern O
. 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. Gardening. Tree 100-250 ft.; trunk 4^6 ft. in diam.: , stomatiferous on the upper surface, on fertile branches often falcate and thickened and keeled above: cones ob- long, gray-green, dark purple or bright canars'-yellow, 3-5 in. long; bracts shor- ter than their scales. Western North America from southern Oregon to Lower California and to Utah, southern Colo- rado, New Mex., Ariz, and Sonora. 12:613. III. 8:748, all fir trees best with- stands heat and drought; very hardy, grows rapidly, and the most desirable of the genus in the eastern states. EB. l,eaf pointed, especially on main shoots, and usually rigid. 10. VMtcliii, Lindl. (A. nephrdlepis, Maxim.). Tree 80-100 ft.: trunk 3-4 ft. in diam.: branchlets slender, pubescent: Ivs. crowded, dark green and lustrous above, silvery white below : cones cylindrical, slender, dark purple, 2-2J^ in. long ; bracts shorter than their scales. Mt. Fuji-san, Japan ; gregarious and forming great for- ests, coast of Manchuria.—Very hardy in the northern states, and in a young state one of the most beautiful of fir trees. 11. liom61epi3,;Zucc.(4. hrachyphfilla,'). Tree 80-100 ft.; trunk 6 ft. in diam: upper branches long and vigorous, ultimately forming a broad round-topped head: Ivs. elongated, sharp-pointed, dark green and very lustrous above, silvery wliite below: cones cylindrical, stout, dark purple, S-3% in. long ; bracts much shorter than their scales. Mountains of central Japan, singly or in small groves. —Very hai'dy, and in its young state one of the most desirable of the fir trees for the northern states. 12. Cephal6nica, Loud. Tree 60-70 ft.: trunk 2^ ft. in diam.: Ivs. broad, rigid, s
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