. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1334 PICEA l^ICEA 7. nlbra, Link (P. aeittlssima,J. G. Jack, P. rubens, Sarg.). Red Spruce. Tree, to 80 ft. or occasionally to 100 ft., with short and slender branches forming a narrow pyramidal head, with red-brown bark : young branches reddish brown: Ivs. quadrangular, acute or mucronate, dark or bright green
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1334 PICEA l^ICEA 7. nlbra, Link (P. aeittlssima,J. G. Jack, P. rubens, Sarg.). Red Spruce. Tree, to 80 ft. or occasionally to 100 ft., with short and slender branches forming a narrow pyramidal head, with red-brown bark : young branches reddish brown: Ivs. quadrangular, acute or mucronate, dark or bright green, shining, about % in. long : Us, purple : cones ohlong, l}i-2 in, long, light reddish brown, glossy; scales obovate, rounded and en- tire or slightly erose at the margin. Prom Canada to N. C, along the Alleghany Mts. 12 some tree, but requires cool and moist situation and is less drought-enduring than most others. 8. ni^a, Link {P. Maridna, Britt., Sterns & Pogg.). Fig. 1709, Tree, usually to 20-30 ft. or occasionally to 100 ft., with slender, often pendulous branches forming a narrow, irregular head: bark gray-brown: young. 1797. Shedding of the leaves of Norway Spruce. Tho picture shows the extremities of a limb that is eight years old. The part between, the tip and A is last season's gi'owth; between A and B it is two years old ; and beyond B is a part that gi-ew three seasons ago. The section beyond C is six years old; from C to D is seven years of age. The four years' growth of this limb not shown in the drawing was as densely covered with foliage as is the part shown in the upper figure; but there are not many leaves between 0 and D (seven years old) and none on the eight-year-old wood (except those on the hranchlets, and these are younger). This shows that the leaves persisted six or seven years. branches brown or yellowish brown: Ivs. quadrangular, obtusish, dull dark or bluish green, bloomy especially on the upper side, 34-^ in. long : fls. purple:
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