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in parks, cemeteries and upon spacious lawns, while its vigorous, rapid habit 

 of growth specially commends it for any position were speedy results are wanted. 

 It is also one of the good trees for making windbreaks, since its dense growth 

 forms an almost impenetrable barrier to chilling winds and frosts that often 

 destroy fruit and ornamental trees of doubtful hardiness. The Norway spruce 

 stands shearing well and has been much used in the form of close hedges, for 

 which purpose it has given good service. 



Like many general favorites, the Norway spruce has its faults and there is 

 no doubt that it has been planted too freely, to the exclusion of more valuable, 

 though less generally known, species. At thirty-five years the Norway begins 

 to get thin and ragged in the top, and a perfect tree more than fifty years old is 

 seldom seen. It is one of the darkest-colored evergreens, and, when used in the 

 formation of large belts or long avenues, if not brightened by the occasional use 

 of some more cheerful tree, the general effect is monotonous and at times even 

 exceedingly oppressive. 



FIG. IX Oriental Spruce. Picea orientalis Carr. 



Oriental Spruce. Picea Orientalis Carr. A native of the regions surround ing 

 the Black Sea and other parts of southwestern Asia, where it is abundant, the 

 oriental spruce is one of the finest foreign evergreens that has ever been intro- 

 duced into America. It is of slender, elegant and remarkably refined habit, its 

 growth being made less rapidly than that of the Norway, which it resembles in 

 color. The species is etirely hardy and. produces a tree one hundred and twenty- 



