TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves stout, rigid, strongly incurved, acuminate, \-\^ ins. long on sterile 

 branches, on fertile branches about half as long, bluish-green or steel-blue, 

 changing to blue-green after 3 4 years. 



An evergreen tree, 50-80 ft. ; Branches horizontal ; branchlets short, stout, 

 glabrous, bright orange-brown to light greyish-brown ; Bark grey tinged 

 cinnamon-red ; Buds stout, obtuse or acute, \-\ in. long, scales chestnut- 

 brown ; Wood light, soft, close-grained, weak, pale brown or nearly white. 



Native of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Syn. P. paiyyana. It is the 

 Abies (Picea) Engelmanni of gardens. 



MOUNT ATLAS CEDAR, Cedms atJantica. 



Parks, gardens. September, October. Suitable for limestone soils, doing 

 well on bleak and exposed ground, and thriving in seaside towns. In its 

 early stage it is much like the Cedar of Lebanon, but later is to be recognised 

 by its more erect habit and rigid branches. The species are propagated by 

 seeds sown in well-drained pans of hglit soil in cold frame in April, transplanting 

 outdoors in following spring. 



Flowers monoecious ; 3Ia/es solitary and terminal, cylindric, erect ; Females 

 solitary, erect, oval, obtuse ; Fruit a cone, chocolate-brown when ripe, ovate, 

 flattened or depressed at ends, erect on upper sides of branches, light brown, 

 resinous, 2J-3 ins. long, scales closely appressed, smooth, broad, coriaceous, tliin 

 edges ; seeds in twos under each scale, irregular or angular, wing thin, 1 in. 

 or more long. 



Leaves in tufts or singly on young shoots, cylindrical or flattened, acute, 

 furrowed, rigid, straight, glaucous green or silvery hue, ^-J in. long. 



An evergreen tree, 80-120 ft. ; erect, pyramidal ; Branches slender, ascending 

 to horizontal, mostly opposite, terminal shoots not pendulous, growth rapid ; 

 Wood compact, fine-grained, durable. 



Native of Atlas Mountains, Algeria; introduced 1843. 



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