PICEA 107 



stiff, fairly stout ; gradually tapering to a fairly long, sharp 

 point; four to five stomatic lines on each side. 



A pyramidal or roundish bush of vigorous growth and 

 somewhat loose habit, and inclined, with age, to revert 

 to normal arborescent type. It is not common in culti- 

 vation in Europe, having been raised in U.S.A. about forty 

 years ago. Plants grown under this name in European 

 gardens are rarely true. The above description was taken 

 from an old tree in Highlands Park, Rochester, N.Y., 

 which has made a beehive-shaped bush 3 feet by 2| feet. 



P. excelsa, var. Remonti, Hort (not Kent). 



Buds. — Conical, acute, about J inch; hght yellow-brown; 

 non- resinous. 



Branches and Branchlets . — Ascending at a narrow angle. 

 Branchlets, annual growth i to 1 inch; shining light yellow; 

 fine, fairly stiff ; very numerous ; pulvini disproportionately 

 large. 



Leaves. — J to | inch; very fine and soft; pale yellow- 

 green; practically radial. Pointing either at right angles 

 to branchlets or upward ; tapering from middle to slender 

 pointed apex, and set rather far apart. 



A very distinct, regular, ovoid, conical, or globose form 

 of extremely slow growth. A plant at Kew has made a 

 conical tree 3 feet by 2 J feet. It is quite a distinct variety, 

 and once recognised cannot be confused with any other. 



There are at least two forms of this variety in cultivation, 

 differing very little except in the length of their leaves; 

 in one form, the leaves on every branchlet gradually 

 decrease in length from base of branchlet to terminal buds, 

 each branchlet forming a little pyramid of fohage. 



The form described by Kent (Veitch's " Man. Conif .," 

 1900), which he considers to be the dwarf form of var. 

 eremita, is a Continental form of uncertain origin. Much 

 stronger in growth than var. Remonti and soon making 

 quite a large narrowly conical shrub. It is near to var. 

 conica. 



