This conifer had a wide range in time, having been traced back to the Lower Miocene strata of Switzerland, and being common at Oeningen in the Upper Miocene, as we shall see in the sequel (Chapter 14.
But whether old or young, sheltered or exposed to the wildest gales, this tree is ever found irrepressibly and extravagantly picturesque, and offers a richer and more varied series of forms to the artist than any other conifer I know of.
No other Sierra conifer produces nearly so many seeds.
No otherconifer in the range is so closely restricted to special localities.
A more contentedly fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived.
Because of its superior powers of enduring variations of climate and soil, it has a more extensive range than any other conifer growing on the Sierra.
No one would take it at first sight to be a conifer of any kind, it is so loose in habit and so widely branched, and its foliage is so thin and gray.
In proportion to its weight when dry, the timber from this tree is perhaps stronger than that of any other conifer in the country.
In the number of individual trees and extent of range this curious little conifer surpasses all the others combined.
The most characteristic symptoms are the "patchy" irregularly scattered pattern of infection in conifer seedling beds and the loosening of the root epidermis on infected roots--making it very easy to pull off.
The prevention of basal fire scars in conifer stands will also reduce the incidence of this disease.
The conifer or cone-bearing tree, to which belong the pines, larches, and firs, is one of the three natural orders of Gymnosperms.
The red cedar is the most widely distributedconifer of the United States, occurring from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Florida to Minnesota.
Soon they will be stripping the fibre from the old conifer in the shrubbery, and mending up their snug little homes in the wood, ready for the short days and the long cold nights.
Illustration] What made the performance more interesting was that this special fibre was only obtained from one particular tree, a certain conifer which grew on the other side of the garden.
Principal Dawson further states that he has seen in the same formation fragments of wood with the structure of the singular Devonian Conifer known as Prototaxites.
Microscopic section of the silicified wood of a Conifer (Sequoia) cut in the long direction of the fibres.
At another season--the season when I happened to be in the Colorado Forests--the very atmosphere is alive with these forest airships, conifer seeds sailing broadside to the wind.
The fashionable international world attended EN MASSE this afternoon at the wedding of the chevalier Jean Wyse de Neaulan, grand high chief ranger of the Irish National Foresters, with Miss Fir Conifer of Pine Valley.
Larches, firs, all the trees of the coniferfamily are going fast.
Mr and Mrs Wyse Conifer Neaulan will spend a quiet honeymoon in the Black Forest.
No other conifer has this trait, no pine grows but shows it every day in the year.
Here is a tall pyramidalconifer which is not evergreen.
The wood is stronger in proportion to its weight than that of any other large conifer in the country.
This phenomenon is commonly seen in conifer tree nurseries where seedling beds are first completely sterilized with harsh chemicals and then tree seeds sown.
Light-colored nonproductive earths of the North growing skimpy conifer trees or poor crops don't contain very many microorganisms.
And finally, all observations agree that the White Pine is a faster growing tree than any native Conifer in Europe, except, perhaps, the Larch.
The following account of a great Conifergarden in Scotland is important, as showing how certain of the better-known species have behaved during the last fifty years or so.
Such a state is shown by the splendid Douglas Firs in the grounds of Murthly Castle, Perthshire, where also many another exotic Conifer is grown in quantity.
A third Conifer that we have seen doing well by the sea is Abies Pinsapo, but it must have a temporary shelter in its small state.
But Conifer planting, from both artistic and merely cultural points of view, was overdone.
The Conifer family is especially noteworthy for the way many of its species vary.
Perhaps no Conifer adds so much to the beauty of the landscape in winter as the Pine.
In even the best Conifer localities there are some species that will not reach perfection, and in the general run of gardens there is a considerable proportion of species about which the same must be said.
On dry, sandy soils no Conifer is better for England than the Scotch Fir; or for moist, loamy regions and valley bottoms none is better than the Spruce.
Walchia is a conifer characteristic of the Permian epoch, of which there are eight species described (Figs.
Section of Peuce Withami, after Lindley and Hutton, a fossil Conifer of the coal epoch.
One of the most important plants is Sequoia Couttsiæ, a Conifer which supplies a link between S.
The flora of the Wealden epoch is characterised in the south of England by the abundance of the fern called Lonchopteris Mantellii, and in Germany by the predominance of the Conifer denominated Abietites Linkii (Fig.
However, as a result of extensive cutting and fires much of the conifer cover is interspersed with large stands of white birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.
Illustration: Habitat map] Habitat: Usually associated with conifer forest, yet may sometimes be found miles from any forest.
Illustration: Habitat map] Habitat: In the vicinity of streams or in conifer forests in the Canadian and Hudsonian Life Zones.
At this time even the tips of conifer twigs are often eaten.
Illustration: Habitat map] Habitat: Associated with conifer forests of Transition to Alpine Life Zones.
Conditions that enable these species ordinarily associated with the snowy plains of the Midwest and the conifer forests of the North to live in the hot Southwest are brought about either directly or indirectly by altitude.
The primary vascular bundles in a young conifer stem are collateral, and, like those of a Dicotyledon, they are arranged in a circle round a central pith and enclosed by a common endodermis.
A well-known fossilconifer from Triassic strata--Voltzia heterophylla--also illustrates a marked dissimilarity in the leaves of the same shoot.
No other California conifer produces nearly so many seeds, except, perhaps, the other sequoia, the Redwood of the Coast Mountains.
A more contented, fruitful and unaspiring conifer could not be conceived.
In Bohemia, the clearing system with artificial reforestation, mostly by seed, had been introduced at the beginning of the century for the conifer forests, planting as a rule being resorted to only in fail places.
White Pine, hemlock and spruce are the important coniferous staples of the northern section, and a number of Yellow Pine species, with Bald Cypress and Red Cedar, are the valuable conifer species in the South.
The central region west of the Alleghanies exhibits little conifer growth in its composition, and is most widely turned to farm use.
As long as the old method of extracting the seed in hot stoves or ovens prevailed, conifer sowings gave but indifferent results.
Pine is the only native conifer of timber value, and oak is the most important native deciduous tree, found mostly in coppice or in old, overmature, straggling pasture woods.
Conifer snags seems to be preferred for nest trees, although hardwoods have been used (Bent 1938).
Most nests were in silver maples on wetter sites or American elms on drier sites and aspen in northern conifer forests.
Although they use white pine, these large owls prefer oak woods and mixed hardwood-conifer stands (Nicholls and Warner 1972).
If you knew of the great districts covered with valuable timber that have come into existence by reason of our planting of nuts and conifer seed, you would be very much surprised.
With the conifer trees, the Scotch pine, the white spruce, the balsam fir and the ridgepole pine are those which are growing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conifer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
