Araucaria imbricata 
Native of Southern Chile. 
Nat. Order : ConiFERa. Tribe : ARAUCARINE&. 
Araucaria imbricata, Pavon, in “ Mém. Acad. Madr.” i. 197 (1795); 
Veitch, Manual, ed. ii. 297 (1900) ; Colymbea imbricata, 
Carriere, “ Traité Conif.” ed. ii. 598. 
A native of Chile, where it grows to about a hundred feet 
high. The plant figured has not the stiff outline generally 
met with in vaucarias, as the branches are pendulous and 
sweeping to the ground. It is fifty-seven feet in height, and 
has a circumference of branches of eighty-two feet. As it has 
never shown any signs of coning, I suppose it is a male 
plant. I believe it is nearly perfect as regards shape. The 
reason the 4raucaria has the bad habit of losing its lower 
branches so often, is from poverty of the soil; and I have been 
told by a very experienced gardener who has charge of one of 
the finest collections of conifers in Great Britain, that he never 
fails to mulch the 4vaucarias every year, and with good results. 
I have given this tree as much as three cartloads of fresh 
cow manure at a time, well watered in with the hose, and it 
has greatly benefited both in vigour of growth and in its 
deep green colour. 
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