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: 
bypoderm, but the resin-canal, which occupies the 
Arnis 6, 1895. THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
423 
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flat, and spreading from the branch Which bears sharp point instead of a oat Nee fig. 58, p. 425; 
them with a Samia that reminds one of the teeth and fig. 60, p. 431). The rnal ad ai is 
m they are narrow, a son sa un ra iby The why and . of these differ- 
at ie iii, dark shining abov ences we do not know. The buds are conic, shining, 
where the mid-rib js cn and resinous, The cones of the wild plant (fig. 57) 
There are numerous stomata, both on the are 3 to 4 inches long, cylindric, obtuse, violet- 
and on the white surfaces. coloured; the scales rounded, the b stalked 
green 
There is very little 
Fie 57, FB BALSAMEA (FROM WILD a SHOOT, LEAF, CONE, SEEDS, AND BRACT. 
(Sun P. 422.) 
expanding into a rounded or oblong limb, termi- 
centre of the —— a neal, heteen the ma a oe l eee g point, which 8 
; „ A bility, as shown in our illustrations, er . 
On the cone- bearing shoots, as in other species of me shown in „ prp ao 0 cone, 
Abies, the leaves are no longer apparently ma g ; ere. sip bracts, 
ranks, but e 8 d if they were like a relation ; 
= in the É ey resemble a í “Th ita oy sometimes purple, aeg 
5 ve- 7 specimens were obligingly 
—it is er the form of the individual enf ie . 3 by Prof. Bayley Balfour, who telle us 
specially selected the 3 to show the 
rere of the cone and its . On the same 
tre v us, could be found both short 
ted e se —80 h for the division 
ta” vig oe colin acteata, 
ed in Mesers, Veitchs’ 
e oblong, notched 3 with 
n the upper face, and 
ds 
stile saver" the midrib is prominent on the lower 
pe 
essor Balfour communicates s also som 
rn particulars relating to the 1 Pine. 
tum. This was e in 1831 on the Keillour 
Mair, some 6 miles from Methven Castle. Th 
belonged 3 to Mr. Robert Smythe, of Methven, 
and, at o one shear eed was land- 
steward ned r ner on ate, He, 
writes Professor Balfour, 3 re have had a 
most ere ee love of tree planting. He it was 
who for the Keillour Pinetum, or amg: 2 
N as he called it. Bishop w 
methodical in his perp ey kept a careful record 
of his porns $e p 0 
f Mr. 9 of Methven, al 
te containing 
the pinetum was r, Smythe to the sre 
of Balgowan—the home of 115 Graham, who becam 
Lord Lynedoch, and it is now the property ot 
chart showing the positions in ch the several 
trees were planted, and this chart Captain Black 
has been good enough to let me examine, as Colonel 
an 
with the guidance of the chart, I find that our plante 
form a group he has í Picea baleame: 
Balm of es and ee book 
chart of * pinetum is dated 1843; and 
ounded in 1831, additions 
1833 up to 1847—not every year, ho 
these additions are carefully recorded. 
however, of such a large n N N of Picea baleamifera 
being planted i in 3 and t 
the . on soe chart marked P. 
at all n one would à priori expect to find. It is 
a swamp; well 3 however, by surrounding 
woods and hilly ground. When ori e formed, 
deep drains were cut, but these are now pr etty well 
filled up, little having been done to the place for 
years. I take it, the prt th of Picea Menzie 
sadi A to the marsh ound in 
is placed.” 
sa sora — the 1 rare 3 
