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The Spanish fir grows well in the British Isles even on chalk, 

 and there are many fine specimens, particularly in S.England. It 

 succeeds in moist soil and retains its lower branches until late in life, 

 when grown as an isolated specimen. The glaucous-leaved variety 





a, spray 



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Fig. 26.— ABIES PINSAFO. 



b, resinous winter buds ; c, leaves and shoot ; d, anterior face of leaf ; e, section of leaf, 

 showing median resin canals. 



forms a handsome lawn specimen. As it is found at high eleva- 

 tions in Spain it is much hardier than its southerly latitude 

 suggests, and it succeeds in Denmark and in S. Norway and 

 Sweden. 1 Badly developed plants in this country have 

 frequently been due to grafting. 



Elwes and Henry, loc. cit. iv, 732 (1909). 



1 Pinetum Danicum {Journ. Boy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 476 (1892)). 



