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those above pointing slightly up and directly forward; 

 very thin, flat, pale yellow-green ; from J to under J inch ; 

 flexible, blunt apex. 



A prostrate form with slender branches spreading 

 horizontally over the ground, said by Carriere to have 

 originated from a cutting taken from a '' witches' -broom " 

 growing on a normal tree in the Trianon. Elwes and 

 Henry (vi. 1343) state that Torssander found a similar 

 plant growing in Sodermanland, Sweden, thirty years 

 old and 20 inches high. 



The best specimen I have seen is growing in the Rock 

 Gardens at Fenagh, Co. Carlow; age unknown, but planted 

 over twenty years; size 17 inches high and 4 feet in 

 diameter. 



P. excelsa, var. pyramidalis gracilis, Beiss. 



Syn. : var. Clanbrasiliana, Hort. ahq. (not Carr.); 

 var. Gregoriana, Hort. aliq; 

 and many others. 



Buds. — Large, conical, scarious, bright red-brown, J to 

 -Yw inch. 



Branchlets. — Annual growth 2 to 3 inches; orange-red; 

 stout, abput J inch thick. 



Branches and Branchlets. — Ascending. 



Leaves. — Arranged pectinately to nearly radial; all 

 point outwards and forwards ; bright or dark green ; stout, 

 slightly falcate, about J inch; round rather than flat; 

 uniform width; tapering from upper fourth to blunt but 

 stiff apex. 



A rather strong -growing regular- shaped pyramid, stiff 



and stout, which is grown in quantity in Continental and 



British nurseries and supplied under many names, the 



rarest being its own. " When in doubt send pyramidalis," 



seems to be the rule. The only point of resemblance it has 



to the slow-growing var. Clanhrasiliana is its bright red 



buds. I do not know the ultimate height of this form; 



most people will find it too big in time for ordinary rock 



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