TREES AND SHRUBS 



and subsequently by Fortune. Name from Gr. pseudo, false, and Lari.r, a 

 larch. Chinese call it Kara-mats (Pine full of buds) and Kin-le-suiig (Com- 

 mon Golden Pine) ; Japanese name is Seosa-mats (deciduous Fir). 



SHORT-LEAVED SILVER FIR, Abies braclnjphfilla. 



Parks, gardens. May. The species of Abies are propagated by seeds 

 sown in sandy loam in temperature of 55° in March, or outdoors in April. 



Flowers moncecious ; Males axillary or terminal ; Females solitary on 

 short branchlets, cylindrical ; Fruit a cone, solitary, purplish, oblong-cylin- 

 drical, obtuse at apex, sessile, erect, 31 ins. long, 1;^ in. diam., scales reniform, 

 resinous, margins entire, bracts cuneate, dentate ; seeds cuneate, angular, full 

 of turpentine, wings broad at top. 



Leaves ci'owded, linear, straight or curved, flat, enlarged at base, obtuse or sub- 

 emarginate, furrowed upper side, white glaucous stripes beneath, J—}, in. long. 



An evergreen t7-ee, 40 ft. ; pyramidal ; Branches horizontal, whorled. 



Native of Japan (120 ft.); introduced 1870. 



MOUNT ENOS FIR, Abies cephahnica. 



Parks, lawns. May. Grows well in exposed situations ; best in good clayey loam. 

 A handsome tree, well adapted for the woodland, or as a specimen on a lawn. 



Flowers monoecious; Fruit a cone, erect, cylindrical, green when young, 

 reddish when maturing, brown when ripe, 5-G ins. long, \\ in. diam., scales 

 broad, thin, rounded, shorter than bracts, bracts linear-oblong, attenuated 

 below, unequally toothed, point sharp, reflexed. 



Leaves regularly disposed, like stiff bottle-brush, around branches, subulate, 

 flat, acute, dark olive-green above, two silvery lines beneath. 



An evergreen tree, 50 80 ft. ; Branches numerous, wliorled ; Buds quad- 

 rangular, acute, resinous ; Wood, hard, very durable, extremely resinous. 



Introduced from Greece, 1824. Found on Mount Enos, or the Black 



Mountain, Cephalonia. Seeds first sent home by General Sir Charles Napier. 



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