Description | Botanical study of a specimen of Abies, common name 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. A variant of this painting is reproduced in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 1, central figure, engraved by by Elisha Kirkall).
Plant with spiny brown bark, green needle-like leaves, and small brown cones on the ends of branches. Inscribed in ink 'Abies piceae foliis brevioribus conis minimis'. Not signed. |