. 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. Engclmanni. bruised: flowers purple: cones oval- to cylindric-oblong, light brown, lJ^-3 inches long; scales thin and flexible, rhomboidal, narrowed and truncate or rarely acute at the erose-denticulate apex. British Columbia and Alberta to Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico.—Introduced in 1862 to the eastern States and in 1864 to Europe. Hardy as far north as Sas- katchewan. A very orna- mental tree varying in the color of
. 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. Engclmanni. bruised: flowers purple: cones oval- to cylindric-oblong, light brown, lJ^-3 inches long; scales thin and flexible, rhomboidal, narrowed and truncate or rarely acute at the erose-denticulate apex. British Columbia and Alberta to Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico.—Introduced in 1862 to the eastern States and in 1864 to Europe. Hardy as far north as Sas- katchewan. A very orna- mental tree varying in the color of its foliage. Var. glauca, Beiss., has bluish or steel-blue, and var. argentea, Beiss., 74. Pkc silvery-gray foliage. Var. Fendleri, Henry, has pendulous branchlets and longer and slenderer leaves often slightly exceeding 1 inch in length, with 4 rows of stomata on each side above and half as many beneath. Supposed to have come from New Mexico. 21. P. pungens, Engelm. (P. Parnjana, Sarg. Abies Menziesii, Engelm., not Lindl.). Colorado S. Fig. 75 and Plate XXXVIII. Tree 80-100, or occasionally to 150 feet, with horizontal stout branches in rather remote whorls, forming a broad regular pyramid; winter-buds with brownish-yellow usually reflexed scales; branclilets glabrous, bright yellowish-brown: "leaves more or less radially spreading, quadrangu- lar, rigid, incurved, spiny-acuminate, blu- ish-green to silvery- white or rarely dull green, %-l }i inches long, with 2 resin- ducts: cones cylindric- oblong, light brown and glossy, 23^-4 inches long; scales rhomboidal, narrowed and erose at the apex. Wj'oming to Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.— Introduced to the eastern States in 1862 and to Europe in 1877. Hardy far north as Saskatchewan. A very handsome tree of symmetrical. 75. Picea 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
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