. 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. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 307 fissured into small plates; branchlets greenish, glabrous, glaucous; winter- buds cylindric-obovoid, acute, pale brown: leaves slender, flaccid, drooping, grayish- or bluish-green, 6-8 inches long: cones cylindric, on 1-2 inch long stalks, 6-10 inches long; seeds brown, 4 lines long. Himalayas, from Bhutan to Afghanistan.—Introduced in 1827 to Great Britain. Hardy m sheltered positions as far
. 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. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 307 fissured into small plates; branchlets greenish, glabrous, glaucous; winter- buds cylindric-obovoid, acute, pale brown: leaves slender, flaccid, drooping, grayish- or bluish-green, 6-8 inches long: cones cylindric, on 1-2 inch long stalks, 6-10 inches long; seeds brown, 4 lines long. Himalayas, from Bhutan to Afghanistan.—Introduced in 1827 to Great Britain. Hardy m sheltered positions as far north as Massachusetts, but it occasionally suffers in a very severe winter. Handsome tree of rather loose habit, with wide-spreading branches and graceful pendulous foliage. 11. P. monticola, Don. Western White P. Tree to 100 or occasionally feet tall, with slender, spreading, somewhat pendulous branches forming a narrow open pyramid; bark of young stems smooth and thin, light gray, on old trees deeply divided into nearly square plates covered by small purple appressed scales; branclilets puberulous, yellowish- or reddish-brown; win- ter-buds ovoid, acute: leaves stiff, bluish-green and glaucous, l3/2~4 inches long, with few inconspicuous or no lines on the back: cones short-peduncled,. 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 perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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