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Pinaceæ; A Handbook of the Firs and Pines, by Senilis
Pinace A Handbook of the Firs and Pines by Senilis Author:John Nelson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: FIE PAGE FIE TEIBE .... 29 ,, Oriental spruce . . 50 Patton's Californian spruce 51 ,, Pindrow silver . . .43 Pinsapo silver . . 44 variegated . . 45 Pitch silver ... 42 variegated . . 42 Prince Albert's hemlock spruce 31 Queen Amalea's silver . 45 Bed American spruce . 51 ,, bluish var. . 51 variegated . 51 Sacred silver ... 45 Sikkim spruce 49 Silver .... 41 dwarf ... 42 fastigiate-branched . 42 golden-variegated . 42 n n pyramidal-branched . 42 ,, silvery-variegated . 42 ,, ,, small-coned . . 42 tortuous-branched . 42 two-cleft-leaved . 42 ,, weeping . . 42 Small-seeded spruce . . 35 Smith's Indian spruce . 49 Spruce . . . .47 black:leaved . . 48 dwarf ... 48 i i! egg-shaped-coned . 48 ,, elegant ... 48 erect ... 48 FinedonHall . . 48 hedgehog-like . 48 ,, inverted-branched . 48 ,, monstrous-branched 48 naked-branched . 48 neate Japan form . 48 ), n pyramidal-branched . 48 ,, recurved-branched . 48 Sang'svar. . . 48 slender-branched . 48 variegated . . 48 weeping . . 48 ,, Variegated Giant . . 84 silver ... 42 spruce . . 48 Veitche's silver . 46 Webb's Indian silver 46 INTRODUCTION. In past ages of the world's history the cultivation and planting of trees was more generally the work of Nature, than the art of man as an arboriculturist, and even in our country it is but of a comparatively recent date that the art of tree culture has received much more attention from us than our forefathers were in the habit of bestowing upon it. Doubtless, there have been, in past times, nay, even...« less