. 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 . Kig. •!. FruiliiiK lininchlet of ihnin iiiijuiilio sli>,htly fiil:irKil. var.—gracilis. A smaller tree witli umre slendei liian<-lies and l)ranchlets, especially the latter, whicli are clothed with smaller scahdike leaves of a paler green. T/iuin (/i;/(riifra is widely distril)uted over a large area extending in a nieridinal direction from southern Alaska
. 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 . Kig. •!. FruiliiiK lininchlet of ihnin iiiijuiilio sli>,htly fiil:irKil. var.—gracilis. A smaller tree witli umre slendei liian<-lies and l)ranchlets, especially the latter, whicli are clothed with smaller scahdike leaves of a paler green. T/iuin (/i;/(riifra is widely distril)uted over a large area extending in a nieridinal direction from southern Alaska at about latitude 55^ north, along the coast range and islands of British Columbia to north California, and laterally from the Rocky Mountains to the racific Ocean. It attains its greatest development in the valley of the Columbia river and around Tuget Sound wheie trees Imvc been seen towering to a height of loO to 200 feet, sending up a mighty shaft free (»f branches for upwards of 100 feet, from an enormously enlarged base tapering grachuilly until at twice the height of a man from the f^round, its dianu^ter may not l»e more than a dozen feet. THUIA GICiANTEA. 241 Beside these giants the other Arhor V
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