. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 324 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Group 11. Insignes Cones tenaciously persistent, often serotinous (remaining closed after maturity for years): ray-cells of wood with small pits. 36. P. halepensis, Mill. (P. alepensis, Poir. P. pityusa, Stev.). Aleppo P. Fig. 90. Tree to 60 feet tall, with short branches forming an open round- topped head; bark gray, smooth for a long time, finally fissured and exposing the reddish-brown i
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 324 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Group 11. Insignes Cones tenaciously persistent, often serotinous (remaining closed after maturity for years): ray-cells of wood with small pits. 36. P. halepensis, Mill. (P. alepensis, Poir. P. pityusa, Stev.). Aleppo P. Fig. 90. Tree to 60 feet tall, with short branches forming an open round- topped head; bark gray, smooth for a long time, finally fissured and exposing the reddish-brown inner bark; branchlets slender, yellowish- or light green- ish-brown; winter-buds small, cylindric, not resinous: leaves sometimes in 3's, slender, light green, 23/^-4 inches long: cones short-stalked, spreading or deflexed, usually 1-3, conic-ovate or conic-oblong, yellowish- brown, unarmed, 23^^-3J/^ inches long; apophysis flattened, with a transverse line and slightly or not elevated obtuse umbo; seed ^ inch long. Mediter- ranean region, from Portugal and Algeria to Afgha- nistan.—Recommended for seaside planting and much planted in Europe. Cultivated in California; in the East probably not hardy north of the Southern States. Of little ornamental value; the trunk usually slender and destitute of branches for a considerable height and the foliage thin and sparse, in tufts at the end of the branchlets. Var. brutia, Henry (P, hrutia. Ten. P. eldarica, Medw. P. pyrenaica, Lapeyr.). Leaves 4-7, rarely 8 inches long, more rigid, bright or dark green: cones sessile, not deflexed, usually in whorls of 2-6, 2-4 inches long, with rugose depressed knobs. 37. P. Pinaster, Ait. (P. maritima, Poir.). Clusteb P. Tree to 100 feet tall, with spreading or sometimes pendulous branches forming a pyramidal head; bark deeply fissured into narrow longitudinal ridges covered with small scales; branchlets bright reddish-brown; winter-buds oblong-oval, brown, not resinous: leaves stiff, acute, usual
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