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Picea alba, Link. White Spruce. Habitat, Canada. A beau- 

 tiful spruce in contrast with the next, having- a whitish-green 

 foliage, branches stiffer and more closely set. It is much 

 slower of growth when young, but this faqt will serve to recom- 

 mend it for situations where large trees could not be tolerated. 



Picea excelsa, Link. Nomvay Spruce. Habitat, N. Europe. 

 The most useful spruce in cultivation for specimens, groups 

 or hedges. It succeeds well in almost any soil and location. 

 If the shears are used freely a very dense growth can be in- 

 duced in young trees. After reaching a height of thirty feet 

 this spruce grows very slowly at the top, soon resulting in a 

 blunt japex that might be considered a defect. 



Pinus Austriaca, Hoess. Austrian Pine. Habitat, Austria. A 

 sombre looking pine of very rapid growth, and most exten- 

 sively planted. It was not introduced into England until 

 1835. It will succeed wherever the Norway spruce will grow. 

 There is a coarseness and stiffness about this tree that would 

 tend to force it into the background. 



Pinus ponderosa, Dougl. Heavy Wooded Pine. Habitat, western 

 North America. This pine has long bright green leaves and 

 seems perfectly hardy here. Many seedlings have been grown 

 with success. We have no trees of this pine on our grounds 

 large enough to indicate its character as an ornamental tree. 

 The leaves on two-year plants are six inches long ; on trees 

 they become six to twelve inches long. 



Pinus sylvestris, L. Scotch Pine. Habitat, Europe and Asia. 

 The reputation of this pine places it next to the Austrian pine 

 in importance. Its foliage is much shorter and has a light 

 green color, which, on the whole, gives it a neater and cleaner 

 appearance. This is a very beautiful pine for specimen trees. 



Retinospora obtusa, Siebold. Japan Cypress. Habitat, Japan. 

 This is deserving of a wider reputation than it now has, being 

 well tested and found to be hardy. To the person unacquainted 

 with the cypress it might be described as a refined arbor vitse, 

 with bluish-green foliage on upright frondose branches, hold- 

 ing its good color in the winter. A good plant of this fine 

 evergreen has been on the grounds through ten winters, is four 

 feet high and making better growth each successive year. It 

 is an excellent plant for small lawns as well as for choice situa- 

 tions in larger grounds. 



