SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OP JAPAN. 



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' cones of the allied species, A, Morinda, m^y be of use in forti- 

 fying Mr, Veitch's view, The old trees of A, Morinda at Hopeton 

 House, and a tree in Sir William Gibson Craig's park at Riccarton, 

 near Edinburgh, have borne cones, and in these cases the cones 



. were pendulous; but Major Madden, in a valuable paper on the 



Fig. 140.— Abies polita (copied from Siebold). 



Himalayan Conifers (reprinted in the Horticultural Society's 

 Journal (1850), vol. v., p. 228, from the Journal of the Agricul- 

 tural and Horticultural Society of India, vol. vii., part 1, p. 75), 

 makes a remark which shows how the discrepancy may be re- 



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