Archive image from page 354 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 259 Tree to ()8. Abies Var. Apollinis, Beiss. (A. Apollims, Link). Branchlets j'ellowish: leaves more crowded above, only a few leaves below spreading downward and forward, thicker and broader, acute or sometimes obtusish.—Introduced in 1850 to Germany. 21. A. cUicica, Carr. Cilician F. Fig. 68 and Plate XXVII. 100
Archive image from page 354 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 259 Tree to ()8. Abies Var. Apollinis, Beiss. (A. Apollims, Link). Branchlets j'ellowish: leaves more crowded above, only a few leaves below spreading downward and forward, thicker and broader, acute or sometimes obtusish.—Introduced in 1850 to Germany. 21. A. cUicica, Carr. Cilician F. Fig. 68 and Plate XXVII. 100 feet tall; bark ashy-gray, smooth, scaly in old trees; winter-buds small, with few keeled acute scales, free at the tips, not resinous; branchlets gray, with scattered short hairs: leaves spreading upward and forward, on weak shoots outward and upward and leaving a V-shaped depression in the middle, somewhat pectinate below, linear, slender, rounded or acute and slightly bifid at apex, about 1 inch long, shining bright green above, with narrow white bands beneath: cones cylindric, 7-9 inches long, reddish-brown; scales 1-2 inches broad, with entire margin; bracts hidden. Asia Minor, Syria.—Introduced in 1853 to Europe by Kotschy. Hardy as far north as southern Ontario and New England. A handsome fir similar to A. Nordmanniana, but with slenderer branches. 22. A. Nordmanniana, Spach. Nordmann F. Tree to 150 feet tall; bark grayish-brown, slightly fissured in old trees; winter-buds ovoid, acute, with slightly keeled obtusish scales, not resinous; branclilets gray with scattered short hairs: leaves directed forward and densely covering the branclilets. lustrous dark green above, with whitish bands beneath: cones cylindric, 5-6 inches long, reddish-brown; scales about IJ/2 inches wide; bracts exserted and reflexed. Caucasus, Asia Minor, Greece.—Hardy as far north as southern Ontario and New England. Introduced about 1840 to Europe. A hand- some and desirable species formin
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