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Title: Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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it is abundant,forming pure forests in the cold, swampy plains near the westcoast, and mach mixed with Abies sachidincnsc and Picea Glchnii onthe central mountains. Northwards it spreads through Saghalien tothe Kurile Islands, and on the Continent through the coast districtof Amurland ; southwards it occurs wild only on the centra,mountains of Hondo as far as the 35th parallel of north latitude.* * Dr. Mayr considers the Hondo form of Picea ajaiicnsis to he specitically distinct fromthe Yeso type, and has descril)ed and tigured it as such under the name of P. Hondoensis,Abietineen des Japanischen Reiches, /oc. cit. suiira.; but neither the description nor thefigures appear to justify tlie separation. The specific name, viicrosperma, was given byLindley to a Spruce Fir brought from Hakodate by the late John Gould Veitch, wliicproved to be a weakly plant unsuitable for the climate of this country. and 0-75—1 inch in diameter; scales on the free edge. Seed-wings obovate- as the scales.
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Pirea ajamims at Oclitertyre, Peitlisliiie. PICEA ALBA. . 427 The wood is very light and soft, and much used iu Yeso for all kinds of carpentry. Pu-ea ajanemi)< was iutiixUifi-il in 1861 liy tlu late JohnGould Yeitcli, and was subsequoutly ili.sti-ibuted under the name ofAbies Alioquiana from the unfortimate circumstance that the seeds ofboth species brought home liy him had been collected by natives audwere mixed together, wliich may be accounted for by the custom thenprevalent in Japan of applying the sauie name to different specieshaving a superficial resemblance to each other.* It w^as not till severalyears afterwards, when the seedling plants growing side by side hadattained a size sufficient to render the chfference obvious, that the errorcould be rectified. As an ornamental tree in this country Piceaajanensis takes a high rank; its growth is slow^ during the first fouror five years from the seedj during which period it frequently s1ioa\-s atendency to produce rival leaders w

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