This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V29", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
M. Carriere regarded this singular Fir as belonging to a distinct genus, and named it years ago in honor of John Baptist Kete-leer, of Brussels, under the name of Keteleeria For-tunei. M. Carriere has given in Revue Horticole a sketch of a tree now bearing cones in the garden of Messrs. Rovelli, of Palanza, Italy, where it thrives well. According to this illustration, it must be a beautiful tree where it succeeds. The cones are about the size of Abies Douglassii, which in a general view they much resemble.
 
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