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mozoiczii, hort. ; Picea obovata japonica, Maximovvicz.) This 

 is a dull and unattractive species, and one that has not suc- 

 ceeded well generally in this country. The branches are 

 short and stout, the leaves four-sided, \ an inch long, stiff and 

 sharp-pointed, spreading almost at right angles to the stem, 

 and of a uniformly dull green colour. The cinnamon tint of 

 the young shoots is pleasing. 



P. morinda,^ Link. {Synonyms: Piiius Smithiana, 

 Lambert; Picea Smithiana, Boissier; Abies K/mtrozUy Loudon; 

 Pinus KJiutrow, Royle ; Abies Siiiithiana^ Forbes.) Hima- 

 layas from West to East. 1818. As a handsome tree this 

 beautiful spruce undoubtedly stands in the front rank, while 

 its hardihood, rapidity of growth, and ease of culture, even 

 claim for it from planters a greater share of attention than it 

 has yet received. The gracefully pyramidal habit of the tree 

 is rendered strikingly beautiful by the slender terminal and 

 lateral branches, which hang down free and easy for often fully 

 a yard in length. Spreading horizontally, the branches arc 

 well supplied with branchlets, which are slender and droop- 

 ing, and furnished with rigid, incurved, deep green leaves, 

 that average if inches in length. Cones cylindrical, 5| 

 inches long, if inches in diameter at thickest part, and 

 shining brown when ripe. The russety-brown tint and large 

 size of the cones impart quite a feature to the tree, while the 

 thickly produced pollen cones are in early spring very showy 

 and attractive. The cones ripen in February of the following 

 year after they have been produced, and then fall to the ground, 

 many, indeed the larger portion, of the seeds being retained 

 intact, owing to the compactly arranged scales. The tree will 

 not flourish when planted on light, sandy, or gravelly soils, 

 the best appearance being put on in rather dampish yellow 

 loam, but not in such as is surcharged with moisture. The 

 timber is of no special value, and is dealt with in the chapter 

 on coniferous woods in the present volume. 



P, nig^ra. Link. Black Spruce. {Synonyms: Pinus 



1 A detailed account of P. morinda by the present writer will be found in The 

 Garden^ vol. xxx., 1886. 



