| Description | Botanical study of a specimen of Abies, common name spruce fir tree. According to Philip Miller's 'The Gardener's Dictionary' (1735), specimens of this tree were first brought from America and planted in Devonshire and Cornwall.
Plant with brown bark, and green needle-like leaves, showing developing cones at the end of branches. Painting shows two fully grown cones inset, lying on their sides. Inscribed in ink 'Abies piceae foliis brevibus conis parvis biuncialibus laxis.' Not signed. |