. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1821. Pinus flexilis (X H)- 5. Lambertiana, Dougl. Sugar Pine. Fig, 1823. Tree, to 200 or 220 ft., with spreading somewhat pendulous branches forming a narrow open pyramid ; old trees usually with flat-topped wide-spreading open head: branchlets brown, pubescent: winter-buds oblong-obo- vate, apiculate: Ivs. st
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1821. Pinus flexilis (X H)- 5. Lambertiana, Dougl. Sugar Pine. Fig, 1823. Tree, to 200 or 220 ft., with spreading somewhat pendulous branches forming a narrow open pyramid ; old trees usually with flat-topped wide-spreading open head: branchlets brown, pubescent: winter-buds oblong-obo- vate, apiculate: Ivs. stout, sharply pointed, dark bluish green, 3-4 in. long, with conspicuous white lines on the back: cones on peduncles 2-3K-in. long, cylindric, often slightly curved, light brown, lustrous. 10-20 in. long: seed about K in. long, dark brown or nearly black. Ore. to Mex. 11:542, 543. tin. 31, p. 152, 153. II. 23:11; III. 1 of the talle-st trees of the Pacific coast; in the eastern states it is hardy as far north as Mass., but grows only slowly; has handsome dark foliage. 6. Ayacahiiite, Ehrenb. {P. Biionapdrtea, Roezl. P. Don-Pedrii, }icez\. P. Ij02idonidna, Gord.). Tree, to 100 ft., with spreading, slender branches: branchlets yel- lowish brown, finely pubescent: Ivs. slender and some- what pendulous, bluish green, 4-6 in. long: cones short- stalked, cylindric conical, gradually narrowed toward the apex, often slightly curved, brownish yellow, 9-15 in. long: seeds about K in. long, gray-brown, mottled dark brown. North Mex. 'll. 18:493; III. 20:751, 753. Gn. 25, pp. 192, 193. —Handsome tree, somewhat resem- bling the White Pine, but foliage more slender, especially ornamental with its large cones. Not hardy north. 2. Cembrcv. 7. ilSxilis, James. Limber Pine. Fig. 1821. Tree, to 50, occasionally to 80 ft., \^ith stout horizontal branches forming a narrow open pyramid, in old age with low, broad, round-topped head: winter-buds broadly ovate, slender-pointed:
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