Archive image from page 338 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 247 upright, with persistent woody scales; bracts inclosed, about half as long as the scales; wings of seeds as long as the scales; cotyledons 2, hypogean (remaining below ground). (Named in honor of Jean Baptiste Keteleer, a French nurseryman, born in Belgium.)—Two or possibly 3 or 4 species in China and Formosa. A
Archive image from page 338 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 247 upright, with persistent woody scales; bracts inclosed, about half as long as the scales; wings of seeds as long as the scales; cotyledons 2, hypogean (remaining below ground). (Named in honor of Jean Baptiste Keteleer, a French nurseryman, born in Belgium.)—Two or possibly 3 or 4 species in China and Formosa. A. Young branchlets orange-red, glabrous: cone-scales suborbicular, slightly inflexed at apex I. K. Fortunei Young branchlets yellowish-gray, puberulous or sometimes gla- brous: cone-scales ovate, recurved at apex 2. K. Davidiana 1. K. Fortunei, Carr. (Abies Fortunei, Murr. Pseudotsuga jczocnsis, Bertrand. Pin us Fortunei, Pari. Ahietia Fortunei, Kent). Tall tree to 100 feet; branchlets glabrous, orange-red: leaves linear, rigid, mucronate or spiny-pointed, obtusish on old trees, flat, with the midrib prominent on both sides, glossy dark green above, paler below, 1-13 inches long: cones ovoid or cylindric-ovoid, 3-7 inches long; scales suborbicular, purple while young, later reddish-brown. Southeastern China. — Intro- duced to Europe about 1845. Little known in this country and probably hardy only in California and the Southern States. Handsome pyramidal tree similar to a fir. 2. , Beiss. {Abies Davidiana, Franch. Pseudotsuga Davidiana, Bertrand). Fig. 64. Tall tree to 120 feet; young branchlets puberidous, rarely glabrous: leaves linear, rounded or notched at the apex, midrib raised on both sides, glossy green above, paler below, \-\}/2 inches long: cones cylindric-oblong, 6-8 inches long, with orbicular- ovate scales, erose at the margin and recurved at the apex. Western China and Formosa.— Introduced by E. H. Wilson in 1900 to Great Britain and in 1907 t
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