PSEUDOTSUGA 153 



I have only seen young plants of this, which are all 

 making small, rather loose and open, globose bushes. 

 This form was raised by Fletcher and Son, of Ottershaw 

 Nurseries, Chertsey, and they inform me that the mother 

 plant was, at sixteen years of age, a round bush only 

 15 inches high. 



P. Douglas!, var. compacta viridis, Beiss. {ii.; and " Mitt, 

 d. d. d. Ges.," 1902, 52). 



Raised by Helleman at Moorend, near Bremen; a 

 regular, rather compactly branched conical form, about 

 80 cm. high, with short crowded branches and fine short, 

 fresh green, short-pointed radial leaves. 



The branch tops are crowded with fohage forming 

 rosettes, in which the imusually red buds appear very 

 striking. 



P. Douglasi, var. compacta glauca, Beiss. (ex "Mitt, 

 d. d. d. Ges.," 1902, 53). 



Raised by Ansorge at Flottbeck. Like the foregoing, 

 a compact, conical form. The short leaves are radial but 

 smaller, and are bluish-green and sharp-pointed. 



Buds more pointed and brown, not red. 



P. Douglasi, var. globosa, Beiss. (not Sargt.); ex "Mitt, 

 d. d. d. Ges.," 1905, 75). 



A form at Carl Lutz Sohn in Stuttgart. A fairly 

 regular loose-branched globular form, 75 cm. through. 



Branchlets, buds, and leaves normal, the latter fresh 

 green. 



P. Douglasi, var. Fretsii, Beiss. (ii. 109; " Mtt. d. d. d. 

 Ges.," 1905, 74). 



A curious form raised in the nurseries of Frets and Son, 

 of Boskoop, Holland, from imported American seed, 

 making a compact pyramid of rather twisted ascending 

 branches, very small branchlets and buds. 



Leaves. — Very short — 8 to 12 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. 

 Upper side dark green; under side blue; and arranged 



