. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. e short andslender branches are densely packed with needle-shaped leaves, each a quarter of an inch long, andof a light glaucous hue. P. EXCELSA ELEGANS attains to 8 feet in height,and is chiefly remarkable for its compact and fragilemode of growth and greyish slender leaves, whichhave an erect tendency. P. EXCELSA FiNEDONENSis has the young shootsof a bronzy or brownish yellow colour; but thisgradua
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. e short andslender branches are densely packed with needle-shaped leaves, each a quarter of an inch long, andof a light glaucous hue. P. EXCELSA ELEGANS attains to 8 feet in height,and is chiefly remarkable for its compact and fragilemode of growth and greyish slender leaves, whichhave an erect tendency. P. EXCELSA FiNEDONENSis has the young shootsof a bronzy or brownish yellow colour; but thisgradually gives place with age to a bronzy greentint. It is highly ornamental. P. EXCELSA Gregoryana is of neat and verydwarf growth, rarely being found more than 2 feethigh. The foliage is of a pleasant green shade,short, stiff, and arranged thickly on the branches. P. EXCELSA INVERTA cannot be described as atall an ornamental variety, but it is highly curiousand interesting, owing to the branches hangingdown almost close to the main stem, and thusimparting to the tree a strange and striking appear-ance. Of the weeping or inverted Spruce, thelargest trees I know of are those at Ide Hill, Seven-. Face page io8. PICEA EXCELSA LWERTA IX WOBURX 1S93. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 109 oaks, and in the Crawley Nursery at Wobum, thelatter having been planted by the writer twenty-four years ago. The Ide Hill specimen is 30 feethigh, with many of the branches hanging downclose to the stem for 7 feet in length. P. EXCELS A Maxwelli.—A Very neat, dwarf-growing form of the Common Spruce has beensent out under the above name. Unlike severalof our WTll-known pigmy varieties, the shrub inquestion remains at all times as hemispherical asif it had been trimmed by the shears, and neverjuts into irregular growths, as do many of thedwarf forms that are at present widely only grows 2 feet high, but is full and rounded,and fully i yard in spread. It is said to haveoriginated in a
Size: 1388px × 1800px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidconiferoustreesf00webs
