44 Illustrations of Conifers. 



PICEA ORIENTALIS (Carriere). ORIENTAL SPRUCE. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXV. p. 883 (1886) with fig. 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 448 (1900). 



A TREE attaining in the Caucasus 180 feet in height and 12 feet in 

 girth. Bark of trunk brown, eventually exfoliating in thin scales. 

 Branchlets slender, pale brown, densly pubescent, with short wavy 

 non -glandular hairs. Buds conic, acute, with obtuse chestnut-brown 

 scales. 



Leaves, arranged as in the common spruce, J to inch long, 

 quadrangular in section, obtuse, with lines of stomata on all four 

 sides, dark green and glossy. 



Cones cylindric, pointed, 3 - 4 inches long, and f inch in diameter, 

 purple when growing, brown when ripe; scales obovate-oblong with 

 entire margins. Seed small, blackish, with a long wing. 



Picea orientalis occurs in the mountains of Asia Minor, Armenia, 

 and the Caucasus at an altitude of 2,000 to 6,000 feet, and was dis- 

 covered by Tournefort on the mountains south-east of Trebizond in 

 1717. It was introduced into Great Britain about 1837 and is now 

 generally planted on account of its ornamental habit. 



There is a good specimen at Bayfordbury 44 feet high, which was 

 planted in 1838. 



