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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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ienetrated by the white man ; half a century later, a railway traversed the country ; saw-mills have been established on the principal streams, and the once great forest of Abies nobilis which made so vivid an impression on David Douglas and others who sid)se(piently visited it, is fast disappearing under the axe of the lum1)erer. It is by no means rash to surmise what its fate will be Avithin the next lialf century unless the State intervenes to arrest its total destruction. As an ornamental tree for the lawn, )>aik and landscape, Abica nobilis ranks among the best of the Silver Firs ; its outline is regular *• Usually .smaller in the forests of Oregon. ^^■-
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Abies nohilis 60 feet high. 524 AlWKS XOIilLLS. withiuil l)eiiig too formal; it is dense with braiiclilets and foliagewithout l)eing sonihre; its dark green foliage with a soft glaucoushue, often heightened to silvery whiteness under certain conditionsof soil and environment, is most distinct whether looked at aloneor in contrast to that of other trees; its large handsome cones whichare produced freely even on comparatively young trees are a striking<nnament of this species. Numerous fine specimens scattered overwell nigh the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, attest itsadaptahility to the British climate ; the average yearly increase inheiglit of the leader shoot varies from climatic and other causes from15 to 25 inches and even more in localities particularly favourable forits development. As the lowermost branches of the largest treesgrowing in this country rarely exceed 25 feet in length, a spacewith a radius a little more than this should be allowed for itwhen planted for orn

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