. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. question,the easy though columnar habit of growth, slenderbranchlets, and bright glaucous foliage being alldesirable acquisitions. It prefers a mild climatesuch as prevails in the western and south-westerncounties. The branches, which are thickly pro-duced, have a decided upward tendency, but are,nevertheless, not painfully so, as is the case withsome conifers, for the tufted branchlets, withtheir ea
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. question,the easy though columnar habit of growth, slenderbranchlets, and bright glaucous foliage being alldesirable acquisitions. It prefers a mild climatesuch as prevails in the western and south-westerncounties. The branches, which are thickly pro-duced, have a decided upward tendency, but are,nevertheless, not painfully so, as is the case withsome conifers, for the tufted branchlets, withtheir easy arranged foliage, deprive it entirelyof all stiffness and formality. The cones areglobose, from i to ij inches long, produced indense clusters, and composed of about ten scaleswith seventy seeds. In cutting up the timber ofa specimen that had attained to 43 feet in height,I found it hard, close-grained and fibrous, of apleasing purplish yellow colour, and very fragrant,the latter being distinctly recognisable even whenthe tree was being felled. C. TORULOSA CoRNEYANA, Curriere, is of dwarfand more spreading growth than the species, andwith the branches more lithe, slender, and Face page /O. CUPRESSUS T0RUL05A AT WOBURN. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 71 DACRYDIUM, Solander THE HUON PINE Flowers dioecious. Fruit erect and fleshy. Seed with a hard shell investing the kernel, and partiallysurrounded by an outer cup-shaped aril. Leaves variable, scale-Uke, or needle-shaped. These are evergreen trees, with variable foliage. Onlyone species has been found sufficiently hardy for outdoorculture in this country. Dacrydium Franklini, Hooker f. The HuonPine. South and west shores of Tasmania.—Though usually branded with the title of half-hardy, and fought shy of by cultivators in con-sequence, yet this is by no means generally thecase, for healthy and well-furnished specimensmay be met with in many counties from Edinburghsouthwards—specimens that have stood unscathedthrough the m
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