fir, and their magnified drawings 

 which represent them as those 

 of a spruce, which, it appears from 

 the description, should have been 

 the case with hoth. Nothing fur- 

 ther was known about this species 

 until 1850, when specimens were 

 received which furnished the mate- 

 rials for the following account, by 

 Dr. Lindley, in Paxtou's Flower 

 Garden, May, 1850, p. 43 : 



(( 



Abies Jezoensis : 



magni- 



ficent evergreen coniferous tree, 

 from Japan, introduced by Messrs. 



brilliant 



Standish and Co. Leaves of a 



According 



He describes it as a large 



green 

 Siebold, the Jezo spruce is so 

 called because it grows on the 

 islands of Jezo and Krafto, in the 

 empire of Japan, whence it has 

 been introduced into the gardens 

 of the wealthy inhabitants 

 Jedo. 



tree, with a soft light wood, em- 

 ployed by the Japanese for arrows 

 and in the construction of domes* 

 tic utensils. The leaves are said 

 to remain for seven years upon 

 the branches. The cones were 

 unknown to him. He only saw 

 the tree in flower in the month 

 of June. The plant now intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Standish and Co., 

 has leaves of the most brilliant 

 green on both sides, placed, when 

 young, in two rows about IJ Inch 

 long, and a line and a half wide, 

 thin and soft when young, stiff 

 when old, and terminated gradu- 

 ally by a very distinct spine, which 



Fii2. 



82. — Kcea Fortuni, from the figure 

 in Paxton's Flower Gartlen. 



