106 A MANUAL OF THE CONIFERS. 



pot too wet and cold ; it is especially suitable for chalk land where 

 it makes a fine landscape tree, and is the best of the Abies for the 

 lawn. In such situations it should be preferred to A. cephalonica, to 

 which it has some resemblance. A space having a radius of not less 

 than 20 feet should be allowed for it. 



Pinsapo, the Spanish name of this Fir. The word is compounded 

 of pino and sqpino, which appear to be applied indiscriminately to the 

 Pine and Fir. 



Abies sachalinensis.— A tall pyramidal tree with robust branches 

 more or less pointing upwards, and covered with light cinereous 

 brown bark, furrowed by the decurrent bases of the leaves. The 



Fig. 26. — Fertile branchlet of Abies sachalinensis. Natural size. From th&~Gardeners' Chronicle. 



leaves are close set, spirally arranged round the stem; linear, 

 falcate, obtuse at the apex, with a sunk line above, and prominent 

 middle and lateral nerves beneath, from three-quarters of an inch 

 to little more than 1 inch long and about one-twelfth of an inch 

 broad. The cones are sub-cylindrical sessile, either straight or slightly 

 curved, erect, and obtusely rounded at the apex, and composed of 



