126 DWABF AND SLOW-GBOWING C0NIFEB8 



P. orientalis, var. nana, Carr. (Eevue Horticulturale, 1891, 

 120). 



Syn. : var. gracilis nana, Hort. 



Buds. — Conical; light brown. 



Branchlets. — Annual growth 1 inch to 2 inches; slight 

 pubescence in grooves between the pulvini; white to pale 

 orange; branches ascending; branchlets inclined to " cup." 



Leaves. — Radial, set far apart, pointing out and forward 

 and incurved; thick, round, short, and flexible; very 

 dark green; blunt apex. 



A densely branched, fairly free-growing form; very 

 ornamental, making a compact roundly conical bush. 

 I have a specimen about 3 feet 6 inches high and about 

 the same in diameter. 



P. orientalis, var. gracilis, Beiss. (" Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 

 1904, 97). 



Beissner (ii. 254) states that at a Conifer Conference at 

 Antwerp a pretty dwarf globular form was shown with 

 finer branchlets. I do not know if this form has been 

 propagated, but any plants I have seen under the name of 

 var. gracilis in Dutch catalogues are var. nana. 



P. orientalis, var. pygmaea glauca, R. Smith (Cat., 1875). 



Was on sale at the nurseries of R. Smith of Worcester, 

 and appears in an old catalogue dated 1875. I cannot 

 trace it further. 



A plant under the name of var. pygmcea is occasionally 

 met with in English and Continental nurseries which is 

 not a form of P. orientalis, but of P. excelsa (see P. excelsa, 

 var. Ohlendorffli. 



P. pungens, Engl. {Gard. Chroyi., 334, 1879). 



Syn. : P.Parryana, Sargent and Barron (1898). 

 The blue spruce comes from Colorado and Utah, and 

 was introduced about 1863. The arborescent type is 

 f omid up to 1 50 feet in height, but in European cultivation 



