4 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



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 Abies excelsa Finedonensis, Paul, the Finedon Hall 



Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies Finedonensis, Hort. 

 A striking variety of the common Spruce, with all the 

 younger leaves on the upper side of the shoots, at first of a pale 

 yellow, or straw colour, as well as the young wood ; but after- 

 wards, as they get older, they change to a bronzy brown, and 

 finally, when fully matured, become light green ; while those 

 leaves on the under side of the shoots and fully shaded branch- 

 lets are more or less green from the first. 



This variety originated at Finedon Hall, in Northamptonshire, 

 where it came up accidentally in a bed of seedling common 

 Spruces. 



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 Abies excelsa Gregoryana, Paul, Mr. Gregory's Dwarf 



Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies Gregoryana, Low. 

 „ " Gregoryi, Hort. 

 A very dwarf variety, seldom growing more than one or two 

 feet high, but with numerous small spreading and somewhat de- 

 clining branchlets, thickly covered with short, stiff, needle-shaped 

 leaves, placed obliquely all round the shoots, and of the same 

 colour in all parts. 



It was raised at the Cirencester Nursery, in Gloucestershire. 



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 Abies excelsa inverta. Smith, the Inverted-branched Com- 

 mon Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies inverta. Smith. 

 A pendulous variety of the common Spruce, in which the 

 leading shoot straightens itself in the old wood, after the manner 

 of the Deodar Cedar, but not so quickly ; the lateral branches 

 on old plants are as drooping as the weeping willow ; and the 

 leaves are longer, larger and of a brighter green than those of 

 the common Spruce, of which it is only an accidental variety, 



