20 Illustrations of Conifers. 



ABIES NORDMANNIANA (Spach). CAUCASIAN FIR. 



Oardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXV. p. 142 (1886), with fig. 



Botanical Magazine, t. 6992 (1888). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 626 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 746 (1909). 



A TALL tree attaining a height of 200 feet with a girth of 9 to 15 feet 

 in the Caucasus. 



Bark of trunk brownish-grey, smooth or slightly fissured. Young 

 shoots grey, with scattered brown pubescence. Buds ovoid with 

 broad, brown, non-resinous scales. Leaves pectinately arranged below 

 in two lateral sets ; those above shorter and densely covering the 

 branchlet in imbricated ranks, bright green, persistent seven to ten 

 years, narrow, linear, notched at apex, f - 1 inch long, grooved 

 above, with white bands of stomata beneath. 



Cones cylindrical, dark brown, about 6 inches long by 2 inches 

 broad, covered with a resinous exudation. Scales broad, very ob- 

 tuse ; bracts cuspidate with the- point reflexed over the lower scale. 

 Seed with wing about an inch long. 



Abies Nordmanniana is one of the best known and most useful 

 trees for ornamental planting, and will grow on almost any soil. It is a 

 native of the Caucasus and northern Asia Minor, and was introduced 

 into European gardens in 1848. The timber is said to be of excel- 

 lent quality. 



This species was 1 planted at Bayfordbury in 1849, the largest 

 specimen now measuring 84 feet by 7 feet. 



