348 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFER.E 



The use of the wood is confined to local purposes, the species 

 being too scarce for exploitation. 



- P. polita grows well but slowly in British gardens, where it 

 forms a dense pyramidal tree of considerable beauty. It succeeds 



Fig. 19.—PICEA POLITA. 



a, spray ; b, winter bud ; c, under-side of spray and leaves ; d, section of leaf ; 



e, seed. 



in moist loamy and peaty soUs and is one of the most popular of 

 the rarer species for decorative garden work. 



Wilson, Conifers of Japan, 36 (1916) ; Clinton-Baker, Illustrations of Coniferce, 

 ii. 45 (1909). 



