. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1032 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM in length, with rather a small rigid wing. The rate of growth of A. nigra is more rapid than that of A. alba under similar circumstances. t 6. A. (n.) ru^ra Pciir. The red Spruce Fir, or Newfoundland red Pine. Identificaiim. Polr. Diet. Encyc.;
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1032 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM in length, with rather a small rigid wing. The rate of growth of A. nigra is more rapid than that of A. alba under similar circumstances. t 6. A. (n.) ru^ra Pciir. The red Spruce Fir, or Newfoundland red Pine. Identificaiim. Polr. Diet. Encyc.; Dci Roi Harbk., ed. Pott., 2. p. 182. _ Symmymes. P. americana rfibra Wang. Beyt. p. 76.; Plnus rttbra Lami. Pin. 1. t 38., Pursh Sept, 2. p. 640.; jj^bies pectinita Lam. Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 38.; Wang. Beyt., f. 54.; and omjig. 1930. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves solitai'y, awl-shaped, acuminate. Cones oblong, blunt; scales round, somewhat 2-lobed, entire. (Lamb. Pin.) Leaves little more than A in. long ; slightly tetragonal. Cones about 1 in. long, and |^in. broad; scales notched. Seeds very small. A large tree. Nova Scotia, and about Hudson's Bay. Height 70 ft. to 80 ft. Cultivated in England before 1755. Flowering in May, and ripening its cones the following spring. Variett/. A. (n.) r. 2 cmrulea. A. caerulea Booth.â Has glau- cous leaves, and appears to us to differ from A. (n.) rubra only in the colour of the cones. The cones are ra- ther longer and red- der than those of A. nigra, and covered â¢with resin. Michaux says that the red spruce is in no way isso- â *â (»â¢) mbia. inferior to the black spruce in the quality of its timber, which "unites in the highest degree all the good qualities that characterise the ; He also states that, instead of being a low tree, it is superior in size to the black spruce, as it generally grows in richer soil; and that the wood is reddish, instead of being white. In Lawson's Manual, it is state
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