122 DWAEF AND SLOW-OEOWINO CONIFERS 



P, excelsa, var. Petrowskoensis, Beiss. (ii. 232; ex Schroder, 

 " Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1899, 121). 



A seedling form raised by Schroder in the Moscow 

 Arboricultural Gardens. A pyramid as broad as high — 

 2 J metres. 



P. excelsa, var. Shelesnowii, Beiss. (ii. 232; "Mitt. d. d. 



d. Ges./' I.e.). 



Raised by Schroder — a dense, small-growing pyramid. 



P. excelsa, var. compressa, Schwerin (Beiss., ii. 232; 

 " Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1903, 94). 



A-plant at Diedorf , not unlike var. coiiica, Carr . A regular 

 conical form with rather short leaves — not very distinct. 



P. excelsa, var. Cellensis, Schiebler (Beiss., ii. 239 ; 

 "Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1903, 58). 



Raised by Schiebler in Celle, near Hanover. A dwarf, 

 regular, conical form, with fine heath-hke branchlets and 

 fine crowded yellow variegated leaves. 



P. excelsa, var. compacta. 



Syn. : Abies, excelsa compacta, Booth ("Kirch Arb. 

 Muse," 695, 1864). 

 P. excelsa compacta, Seneclauze (" Conif.," 26, 



1868). 



The name " compacts " covers a considerable group of 

 indistinct forms. In almost every plantation of the type 

 one or two specimens may be found which might be named 

 " compacta.^' Consequently this name has been freely 

 utiUsed by nurserymen, to distinguish any form for which 

 they can find no other name, and one may expect to receive 

 under it either some well-known form or a shrubby form 

 diUering but slightly from the type except in habit. At 

 Kew there are at least half a dozen plants so named, most 

 of them indistinct. In the ch'cumstances it is practically 

 impossible to select any one of them and regard it as a 

 distinct form to the exclusion of the others. Recently 

 a form has been put into cultivation on the Continent 



