. 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. 328 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS bark on lower part of trunk broken into irregular plates covered with thin loose dark brown scales tinged with red, on the upper part and on the branches broken into thin loose scales; branchlets orange-brown; winter-buds cylindric, dark chestnut-brown, very resinous: leaves stiff, usually twisted, acute, dark green, 4-7 inches long: cones usually clustered, oblong-ovoid, oblique at the. ba
. 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. 328 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS bark on lower part of trunk broken into irregular plates covered with thin loose dark brown scales tinged with red, on the upper part and on the branches broken into thin loose scales; branchlets orange-brown; winter-buds cylindric, dark chestnut-brown, very resinous: leaves stiff, usually twisted, acute, dark green, 4-7 inches long: cones usually clustered, oblong-ovoid, oblique at the. base, chestnut-brown, 2-33^2 inches long; scales of the upper side with elon- gated conical apex terminated by a dark, triangular, spiny umbo, scales of the lower side more flattened, with slender straight spines; the cones usually remain closed for several years after maturity; seeds almost black, 34 inch long. California.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1846 by Hartweg. Hardy only in the Southern States. A handsome pine of regular pyramidal habit when young. 44. P. rigida, Mill. Pitch P. Fig. 93. Tree to 80 feet tall, with hori- zontally spreading branches forming an open irregular pyramid; bark of old trunk deeply and irregularly fissured into broad flat ridges covered with dark red-brown scales, often tinged purple, on young stems thin and broken into plate-like scales; branchlets light brown; winter-buds ovoid or ovoid- oblong, chestnut-brown: leaves stiff and spreading, acuminate, dark green, 2-5 inches long: cones almost sessile, often in clusters, ovoid, light brown, 2-4 inches long; apophysis little elevated; umbo triangular, ending in a slender, recurved prickle; seed dark brown, }/i inch long, its wing ^ inch. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.
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