. 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 . tangled synonymy with whicli the tree became encumbered and the superfluous names still in use in many places should be allowed to sink into oblivion. Abies concolor was introduced from the Sierra Nevada of California by the Veitchiau Firm at Exeter tluougli WiUiam Loblj in 1851, and about the same time seeds were sent from southern Oregon to the Scottish Oregon Association by th
. 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 . tangled synonymy with whicli the tree became encumbered and the superfluous names still in use in many places should be allowed to sink into oblivion. Abies concolor was introduced from the Sierra Nevada of California by the Veitchiau Firm at Exeter tluougli WiUiam Loblj in 1851, and about the same time seeds were sent from southern Oregon to the Scottish Oregon Association by their collector John Jeffrey; * both collectors sent their consignments under the name of Abies grandis. The plants raised in the Exeter nursery were distributed under the name of A. lasiocarpa in the belief that they were the species so named by Sir William Hooker; those raised in the Edinburgli Botanic Garden for the Scottish Association were distril^uted among the members as A. f/ranclis. In 1857 seeds were received from California Ijy Messrs. Low of Clapton, and the plants raised from them Avere named Picea Lowiana by Gordon and were distributed luider that name. * James McNab in The Garden, Vol. I. p. Abies concolor at Higlinam Court, Gloucester. AHIES (ONCOLOIJ. 505 Some time afterwards Mr. K;irnm of IJorrowash distributed another l)atcli of seedlings under tlie name of A. ; and lastly the Colorado form found its way into Eurojiean gardens under the names of A. cowolor and A. concolor riolwea. With ivspect to the so-called variety riolwea the following extract from the American Garden and Forest* should finally dispose of it:—In the forests of Colorado green cones and purple cones are produced on trees standing side liy side and indistinguishable except in this one particular. It is not known even if the same tree produces permanently the same coloured cones, or whether they are not in some years green and in others purple. For British parks and pleasu
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