Picea pungens Kosteri 
Native of the Rocky Mountams, North America. 
Nat. Order : ConiFERA. Tribe: ABIETINE#. 
Picea pungens Kosteri, Hort ; Picea pungens, Engelmann in 
Gard. Chron. xi. 334 (1879); Veitch, Manual, 
ed. ii. 441 (1900). 
So far as I know, this is the handsomest of the spruce 
firs. It originated in the nursery of Messrs. Koster, at 
Boskoop in Holland, about ten years ago. It is quite hardy, 
and will succeed in the most exposed situations. It makes a 
foot of top growth annually, and has a very regular shape, 
keeping well feathered to the ground. 
Its handsome blue-grey glaucous foliage and good shape 
render it a most desirable tree in a pleasure-ground, where it 
should have a place on the grass by itself. 
Height, seven feet ; circumference, twenty-three feet. 
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