Windbreak of Golden Willow. Planted as two-year-old rooted cuttings in spring of 1905, 

 photographed in autumn of 1908. Forest Nursery Station, Indian Head, Sask. 



planted 

 loam. 



in the city. It prefers a sandy 



The Colorado blue spruce is a beau- 

 tiful tree to plant on lawns. There are 

 two distinct varieties of this tree; one 

 has green foliage, the foliage of the other 

 is decidedly blue. The blue variety is 

 the one to plant. This tree is 

 a native of the Rocky Mountains. Many 

 individuals of this .species have a most 

 delightful fragrance. 



The Engelmann spruce is also a tree 

 of the Rocky Mountains. It has blue- 

 green foliage and is very handsome. 



The Norway spruce is a European 

 tree with cones four or five inches long. 

 It has V)een widely distributed by the 

 nurserymen, but is no better than our 

 native species. This is sometimes called 

 the weeping spruce, as the long slender 

 twigs of many individuals hang down 

 almost vertically. This is an excellent 

 tree for planting in cemeteries. 



The Lodgepole pine is a very desirable 

 tree for planting in the northwest. It 

 clothes the whole eastern slope of the 



Rockies and comes east as far as the 

 Cypress Hills in southern Alberta. The 

 trees bear cones very early. I have seen 

 trees not more than two feet high with 

 several cones. No evergreen restores 

 itself better after fire than the Lodge- 

 pole pine. The cones hang on the trees 

 many years without opening. Fire 

 comes along and kills the trees; but, 

 the heat opening the cones, the seed 

 falls to the ground uninjured, and there 

 comes up an impenetrable thicket of 

 young pine. The tree is straight and 

 tall and the foliage is a beautiful green. 

 It is a much handsomer tree than the 

 jack pine of the east. 



Scotch pine has been distributed 

 widely in this country by the nursery- 

 men. As its name implies, it is a 

 European species, but it is not indig- 

 enous to Scotland alone. The Ger- 

 mans call it the "Common Pine," as 

 it covers the sandy land of that country. 

 It is distributed all over northern 

 Europe. It is no more hardy in this 

 country than the lodgepole pine and 

 is not so handsome. 



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