. 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. THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Introduced to Great Britain about 1804. Hardy as far north as Massa- chusetts, but of httle ornamental value. 39. P. clausa, Vasey (P. inops var. clausa, Engelm.). Sand P. (Spruce P.). Tree to 20, occasionally to 70 feet tall, with slender spreading branches; bark on the branches and on the upper part of the trunk smooth and ashy- gray, on the lower part deeply fissured mto oblong plates covere
. 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. THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Introduced to Great Britain about 1804. Hardy as far north as Massa- chusetts, but of httle ornamental value. 39. P. clausa, Vasey (P. inops var. clausa, Engelm.). Sand P. (Spruce P.). Tree to 20, occasionally to 70 feet tall, with slender spreading branches; bark on the branches and on the upper part of the trunk smooth and ashy- gray, on the lower part deeply fissured mto oblong plates covered with red- brown scales; branchlets red-brown; winter-buds oblong, obtuse, not or little resinous: leaves slender and flexible, acute, dark green, 2-3 inches long: cones short-stalked, often oblique at the base, conic-ovoid, dark reddish- brown, 2-33^ inches long, remaining closed for three or four years after ripening and occasionally becoming enveloped by the growing wood of the stem; apophysis depressed-pyramidal, conspicuously keeled; umbo with a short stout spine. Florida and Alabama, near the coast.—Little known in cultivation; hardy only south. 40. P. virginiana, Mill. (P. inops, Ait.). Scrxjb P. (Jersey P.). Fig. 91. Tree to 40 or sometimes to 100 feet tall, with slender horizontal or pendulous branches in remote and irregular whorls, forming a broad open pyramid or sometimes flat-topped; bark of trunk shaUowly fissured into plate-like scales covered with thin, appressed, dark brown scales, smooth on the branches; branclilets usually pale green at first, becoming purple, bloomy; winter- buds oblong, dark brown: leaves stiff, twisted, spreading, acutish, 13^-3 inches long: cones conic-oblong, reddish - brown, 1^-23/2 inches long; apophysis little elevated, with a broad depressed-pyramidal umbo ending in a short recurved prickle; seed pale brown, y^ inch long. New York to Georgia, west to Ohio, Indiana, northeastern Mississippi and Alabama. — Introduced to Great Brit
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