78 OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 190 



Probably the most valuable of all the evergreens in produc 

 landscape pictures is the silver or white fir. Somewhat similar 

 color, although of a distinctly different habit of growth, is the C< 

 rado blue spruce, which should be found in every collection. T 

 superb tree is of iron-clad hardiness and the foliage is of a p 

 nounced shade of blue which renders it very effective when gro 

 in proximity to darker-colored kinds. The retinosporas, or Jaj 

 cypresses, are an extensive group of elegant small trees especic 

 adapted to massing- and also to use upon small lawns, while 

 dwarf Mugho pine will be found serviceable where one of lowspre 

 ing- habit is desired. At times in grouping- trees a specimen of 

 rig-ht, columnar habit will be admissable, when the pyramidal arb 

 vitae or Irish Juniper may be appropriately introduced; but a p 

 ponderance of such trees should be avoided, as it conduces to ai 

 thing- but a natural, graceful landscape composition. Who has ] 

 witnessed, in some rural cemetery, the spectacle of numerc 

 stiff, erect Irish junipers which served only to deepen rather th 

 dispel the depressing effect that is often felt in many of the smal 

 resting places for the dead? Likewise, an occasional specimen 

 the grotesque weeping spruce will add variety, but all trees of su 

 abnormal type would best be used sparingly. 



Photo by Waid. 



FIG. I A good group of evergreens. At the rear are shown White, Austrian and Scotch Pin< 



with a Cut-leaf Weeping Birch to the right. In the foreground appear Colorado Blue 



Spruce, Arborvitaes and Red-twigged Dogwood. 



Thedismal funereal sensation sometimesexperienced uponent 

 ing grounds where somber, suggestive trees,like the Norway sprt 

 and Irish juniper, have been planted too profusely may be avoid 

 by the use of such light, cheerful trees as the silver firs, Colora 



