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Scotch. P. sylvestris. For a quick, sym- 

 metrical, cheerful blue-green tree, plant the 

 Scotch Pine. Mix in permanent trees, as 

 White Pines, White Spruce, Englemann's 

 Spruce and Cedar. In a mixed grove of 

 various Pines fifteen years old, the Scotch 

 Pine is largest and broadest. The tree is 

 of good shape with full, round top. It is so 

 dense when young that it has good value as 

 a screen. We have grown large quantities 

 from seed collected on Long Island. The 

 trees are bushy, vigorous, and have good 

 roots. They will give as much screen for the 

 money as any evergreen we offer. Ever- 

 green groves should be thinned out, and, as 

 these are short-lived, they will remind the 

 owner of the necessary thinning in twenty 

 years or more. For planting on the sea- 

 shore it should be largely used, either alone 

 or mixed with the White Spruce, Pitch and 

 Austrian Pine and Red Cedar. 



Austrian. P. Larico, var. Austriaca. If the 

 Austrian Pine would live in good condition 

 seventy-five years, there would be no fault 

 to find with it. The foliage is a good pure 

 green, the form is round, full and solid. 

 The needles are stiffer than any other Pine, 

 and seem able to resist salt spray, dry 

 winds and drought. In the central parts of 

 Long Island it is a handsome tree for twenty 

 or thirty years. Near the sea-coast it lives 

 longer. The best Pines that have been 

 planted along the south shore of Long 

 Island from Far Rockaway to South- 

 ampton are the Austrian. On the main- 

 land our statement of its being short-lived 

 is frequently refuted by examples of old trees. 



Pinus densiflora. Professor Sargent, Direc- 

 tor of Arnold Arboretum, says: "Although 

 an exceedingly picturesque and beautiful 

 tree, it is rarely used by the Japanese as an 

 ornamental plant, although it is a common 

 inhabitant of their artificial forests. This 

 tree is hardy in New England where it is 

 already beginning to assume its mature, 

 picturesque habit. So far as can be judged 

 by an experience of twenty-five years, this 

 appears to be the most promising of the 

 two-leaved Pines introduced into the 

 eastern states from foreign countries." 

 In the arboretum of the late Charles A. 

 Dana there is a broad, low, flat-topped tree 

 from which we have obtained our stock. 

 The color is a clear, dark living green 

 even in mid-winter. We recommend them 

 highly for mixing in mass plantings and 

 covering sandy areas. 



Red, or Norway. P. resinosa. A handsome, 

 dark, symmetrical and dense tree, which 

 shows no ground for criticism. In foliage 

 and form it resembles the Austrian Pine, 

 but the needles are not so stiff, and are 

 darker green. The foliage remains on two or 

 three years. It is named from Norway, Maine, 

 and is native from there to Minnesota in dry soil. 

 It will make a beautiful tree on the Pine barrens 

 of Long Island, for it grows with the Pitch Pine 

 on dry, and sterile gravel. We hope to grow it 

 largely, and advise planters to mix in a few to get 

 acquainted with its merits. 



Mugho, or Mountain. P. montana, var. Mughus. 

 The dwarf of a family of giants. Use it with the 

 flat-growing Junipers to cover hillsides where 



The planting of some of our cheap Scotch Pines to cover a terrace 

 bank. Planted in May, photographed in August 



The Scotch Pines, \ )4 feet high, which we offer will do this 

 in five years. Windbreak to a garden on the bleakest part of 

 Hempstead Plains, at residence of the late Sidney Dillon Ripley 



Scotch Pine Grove on Pratt Estate, Glen Cove, planted on sandy 

 ground, has furnished the most economical landscape treatment 



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tall Pines would shut out the view. To get a 

 quick temporary cover, put in the Scotch, Pitch 

 or Densiflora Pines, cut them back, and cut them 

 out altogether before they crowd the Mugho 

 Pine. In the Alps they cover large areas with a 

 thicket as high as a man's head. On the brink of 

 a precipice they cling to dry rock, and bend 

 beneath the avalanches. Use it similarly on the 

 top of a wall. 



