. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ect and beautiful is farther enhanced by tlie massed foliageof silvery blue or tints ranging from that to apurplish blue or green, a single bed of seedlingspresenting perhaps the entire range. Itsbeautiful form and color together with itshardiness make it one of the most valuableacquisitions for ornamental planting of recentyears. The wood of the Blue Spruce is light, a weighing lbs., soft, with satiny sur-face and suitable for the uses mentioned of theRed Spruce.
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ect and beautiful is farther enhanced by tlie massed foliageof silvery blue or tints ranging from that to apurplish blue or green, a single bed of seedlingspresenting perhaps the entire range. Itsbeautiful form and color together with itshardiness make it one of the most valuableacquisitions for ornamental planting of recentyears. The wood of the Blue Spruce is light, a weighing lbs., soft, with satiny sur-face and suitable for the uses mentioned of theRed Leaves rigid, 4-sided, from % in. on fertilebranches to IV:, in. long on sterile, curved, spiny,acuminate, bluish green to silvery or dull green ;branchlets glabous. Floirers reddish yellow : pis-tillate with broad denticulate scales and acutebract. Fruit: cones subsessile, oblong-cylindrical,2^4-4 in. long with glossy rhomboidal flexuosescales narrow and erose-dentate at the elongatedapex ; seed % in. long with short wide wing. 1. Syn. P. pungens Engelm. 2. A. W., XI, 275. 3. For genus see p.
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