. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Bristle Cone Fir 85 The wood is hard, strong, rather close-grained and light brown; its specific gravity is about It is sometimes sawed into lumber, and under the name of "larch" is used to a small extent in construction and for boxes. This tree grows well in England, producing its cones in great abundance; it also sometimes thrives in the middle Atlantic States, but is not hardy northward. 10. BRISTLE CON
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Bristle Cone Fir 85 The wood is hard, strong, rather close-grained and light brown; its specific gravity is about It is sometimes sawed into lumber, and under the name of "larch" is used to a small extent in construction and for boxes. This tree grows well in England, producing its cones in great abundance; it also sometimes thrives in the middle Atlantic States, but is not hardy northward. 10. BRISTLE CONE FIR—Abies venusta (Douglas) Koch Pinus venusta Douglas. Pinus bracteata D. Don. Ahies bracteata Nuttall This, the most pecuUar, as well as the rarest of the North American Fir trees, is also called Santa Lucia fir. Silver fir, and Fringed spruce. It seems to be re- stricted to Monterey county, California, where it occurs but sparingly on the rocky slopes and in canons of the Santa Lucia Mountains at elevations of 450 to 1500 meters, attaining a maximum height of 45 meters, with a trunk diameter of 9 dm. The branches are rather stout, far apart, and somewhat droop- ing, their branchlets crooked and rather remote, forming an open conic tree con- tracted above into a narrow head, unlike any others of its ge- nus. The bark is ir- regularly fissured and broken into closely ad- hering scales of a red- brown color and often marked by the re-. FiG. 65. —Bristle Cone Fir. mains of old resin "blisters," which are quite abundant on the thioner younger bark. The stout twigs are smooth, light red-brown, and covered with a bloom. The ovoid winter buds are cm. long, 5 to 8 mm. thick, sharp-pointed, and loosely covered by large pale-brown papery scales, the innermost ones persisting for some time at the base of the newly formed twig. The stiff leaves, which usually spread outwardly, are flat, linear, narrowed above, 4 to 6 cm. long, to 3 mm. wide, long taper-pointed, na
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