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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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lindscapes unless supplied with abundant moisture in aira id at root during its whole time of acbive growth.It is really at home only iu cool districts with heavyannual rainfall, or ehewhere only in wet Beas>n3, andI have proved that planting it iu shade results onlyiu much leaf and scinty bloon. G. H. Eigtehzart.Erratum. —P. 12*3, for amicus, read cernuus. March 6, 1897.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 153 PICEA OMOEIGA (THE SERVIAN SPRUCE). This, the latest discovered of the European Spruces,was figured in the Gardeners Chronicle for March 8,1SS1, p. 30D, but at that time it had not been intro-duced into this country. Even now specimens, except of small size, are rare, but this need not be the casemuch longer, for ihe species is now in commerce.There is a group of trees in the pinetum at Kewwhich were raised from seed sent from Belgradeeight or ten years ago, and which are now largeenough to give some indication of its probable valuein giirdeus. It may at once be said that few of the
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Spruces thrive in the indifferent soil and atmosphereat Kew so well as this one promises to do. The treesare now fj to 3 feet high, of symmetrical outline, andwell furnished with foliage to the ground. Theleading shoots made in 1896 are from 12 to 18 incheslong, so it is evidently a rapidly growing plaut. Tholeaves are about three-quarters of an iuch long, notso distinctly four sided as most of the Spruces, andthey have two glaucous lines on the upper side—thatis, the side towards the growing point of the shoot.The wood is furnished with short, black hairs. Thespecies is a native of the mountains of Servia, Bosnia,and Montenegro, and its existence was first madeknown to science by Dr. Pancic, who described it asequalling any of the European Spruces in stature,AY hen it was first discovered it was thought by someauthorities to be merely a form of P. orientalis. Itmay bear some resemblance to that species when veryyoung, its leaves being then much smaller, but plantsof the size of tho

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