. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . ]\Iountains towards the soutliern part of therange at elevati(jns between G,000 and !),000 feet. Kowhere very * The liest specimens of Pio-a are .seen in die soutliern and south-western counties,(?specially in Devon and Cornwall. riCEA IUNGEN^J 449 abundant, it is generally scattered along the mountain streams ofColorado and eastern l^tah and northwards to those of the Wi
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . ]\Iountains towards the soutliern part of therange at elevati(jns between G,000 and !),000 feet. Kowhere very * The liest specimens of Pio-a are .seen in die soutliern and south-western counties,(?specially in Devon and Cornwall. riCEA IUNGEN^J 449 abundant, it is generally scattered along the mountain streams ofColorado and eastern l^tah and northwards to those of the Wind Eivermountains of Wyoming. *. Fig. 111. Picea pungens glauca.(From the Gardeners Chronicle.) This handsome Spruce Fir was discovered on Pikes Peak in Coloradoby Dr. Parry in 1862, at the same time as P. Engehnanni, and wasprohahly introduced witli that species with which it is still confused inmany gardens. It is uiuiuestionahly the most beautiful of all SpruceFirs for garden decoration, a distinction it owes to the remarkableglaucescence of its foliage which, however, varies much in intensity indifferent seedlings, but when most heightened is of a silvery greyish Silva of Xorth America, XII. 48. GG •inO riCEA i;UBKA. lihic. Between this and the green form which is quite rare, is to heIduml every possil)h gradation in colour, so that varietal names founded(Ml it liave hut little value or significance. P. puuiiem is quite hartlyand grows somewhat slowly at first in all (Udinary soils and the most noticeahle deviations from the coiiniKin type in habitis one with pendidous Ijranches which originate
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