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Title: Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Webster, Angus Duncan
Subjects: Pinopsida Pinopsida Pinopsida
Publisher: London : Constable and Co.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ditions being that a northern or eastern aspectbe chosen, also a cool, late soil and fairly shelteredsituation. A full account of this variety, withillustrations, by the writer, will be found in TheGarden, vol. xxx., 1886. ARAUCARIA, Jusseiu Flowers usually dioecious. Female cones large, globular, or ovoid ; males cylindrical. Scales spirally arranged, deciduous, united with the bracts. Seeds, one to each scale, inverted, and more or less attachedto the scales. Leaves spirally arranged, closely imbricated, and widestat the base. The Araucaria differs from the true pines and firs in havingthe sexes usually on different trees, in the cone scales beingone-seeded, and the seed more or less attached to the scales. Araucaria imbricata, Pavon, Chile Pine.Southern Chile. 1795.—Though of somewhat stiffoutline, there is something remarkably pleasingand distinct about a well-grown and well-furnishedspecimen of this Araucaria, Unfortunately, how-ever, the opinion entertained regarding the value
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wm^i^1 ■ ^^^^■ .^^. ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 29 of the tree for general planting in this countryyears ago does not hold good to-day, and a greatchange in its culture has in consequence beenbrought about. In the younger stages of growth,the Araucaria is, no doubt, one of the most distinctof all coniferous trees, but with the advances ofage, it usually begins to show signs of decay, thelower branches dying off one by one, when thewhole tree presents a very unsightly appearance.The branches are somewhat drooping, with up-turned tips, the ovate lanceolate leaves stiff,leathery, and sharply pointed, each about i inchlong, by half that in width, and bright green incolour. Seed-bearing cones spherical, or nearlyso, and 7 inches in diameter, while the thicklyarranged, bract-like appendages, each i inchlong and standing erect, impart to these a curioushedgehog-like appearance. The male cones arecylindrical, fully 3 inches long, by half that indiameter, and usually produc

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