Identifier: veitchsmanualof00kent (find matches)
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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een in this country it is a very <fraceful tree andone of the most efiecti\e (onifers for the park and landscajje on accountof its broad sweej)iiig- lial)it, and ))reseuting <fenerally tlie appearance ofa pile of thick foliaj.re out (»f which sprinj^- a nndtitude of loii<^-whiji-likeshoots which bang down like the slender sprays of a Weeping- Willow.The older trees are now assuming- a distinctly )tyraniidal outline brokenby the long-, litlie, terminal shoots, their lowermost branches making- asweep of over 30 feet, so that a space \vitli a radius greater thanthis nnist be allowed to secure a good siucimen.*^ No coniferous tree * Fine specimens of Tsuga Alhertiana 70 to 80 feet high are growing at Westonbirt,<^;louce.stershire ; Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire ; Fonthill Abbey, Wilts; Linton Park,Maidfstone : .Monk Coniston, Lancashire; Tastlc Menxies and Mctlivcn Castle, Perthshire:Riccarton, Midlothian. Trees 60 to 70 feet high are fre<iucnt froni Ierthshire southwards.
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Imija AJhertiana.(From the Gardeners Chronicle. 462 TSUGA BRUNONIANA. hom north-west Anicricit lias iikuc readily adapted itself to the alteredeonditions of soil and diiiiate in Great Ihitaiii than T. Alhfrfiana ;it thrives in most situations and in many kinds of soils, Imt mostfr<M4y in a cool moist soil, or in loams with a i)orous suhsoil ; it willgrow even on ))eat-))og hut not on chalk. The annual rate of growthof the leader shoot varies aceordin.i;- to soil and situation from 15 to25 inolies. The wood is liglit, hard, and cross-orained l)ut not strong ; it ismuch used for Imilding and rough car)ientry ; the hark furnislies themost vahiahle tanning material in the region.* Tsuga Brunoniana. A lofty tree 70—120 feet high, the trunks of the largest 6—9 feetin diameter near the hasef and covered Avitli thiek, rough hark.Branches spreading; hranchlets slender, Ijrittle and pendulous; harkpale broAvn with shallow longitudinal furrows. Leaves narrowly linear,very shortly jietiola

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