. 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. 304 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS high or sometimes shrubby, with wide-spreading branches; bark fissured into thin brown to creamy-white scales; branchlets glabrous or puberulous with scattered, minute, short hairs, brown to orange, tough and pliable: leaves rigid, entire, lH~23^ inches long, dark green, with stomatic lines on the back, persistent for five to eight years: cone subsessile, ovoid or globose-ovoid, 2-3 inches
. 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. 304 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS high or sometimes shrubby, with wide-spreading branches; bark fissured into thin brown to creamy-white scales; branchlets glabrous or puberulous with scattered, minute, short hairs, brown to orange, tough and pliable: leaves rigid, entire, lH~23^ inches long, dark green, with stomatic lines on the back, persistent for five to eight years: cone subsessile, ovoid or globose-ovoid, 2-3 inches long, dull purple, finally brown; scales much thickened, often with stout pointed umbo; seeds H~H inch long. High mountains of British Columbia to California and —Introduced by Jeffrey to Great Britain in 1852. Probably hardy as far north as Canada, but difficult in cultivation; it will perhaps do best on rocky slopes of northern 80. Pinus flexilis. Group 2. Flexiles. Cone dehiscent; seed wingless or nearly so. 4. P. flexilis, James. Limber P. Fig. 80. Tree to 50, occasionally to 80 feet tall, with stout horizontal branches forming a narrow open pyramid, in old age with low, broad, round-topped head; bark dark brown or nearly black and deeply fissured on old trunks, on young stems and on the branches thin and smooth, gray to silvery-white; branchlets glabrous or minutely brown- tomentulose; winter-buds broadly ovoid, slender-pointed: leaves rigid, acute, dark green, 1^-3 inches long, with stomata on the back: cones short-stalked, ovoid to cylindric-ovoid, light brown, 3-6, rarely 10 inches long; scales rounded at the apex, tipped with an obtuse dark umbo, the lower ones elon- gated and reflexed; seeds dark brown, mottled with black, 3^-3^ inch long, with narrow wing. Alberta to California, west to Montana and western Texas.—Introduced in 1861 to the eastern States and to Europe by Dr. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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