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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. Evergreens 



White Spruce Hedge at the entrance court at the residence of Mr. Charles Steele, Westbury, L. I. Now is the time to 



secure plants at low cost 



Spruce, continued 



Englemann's. Picea Englemanni. Some day this 

 will be as popular as the Colorado Blue Spruce. 

 It is also from Colorado, and gives every promise 



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of being longer-lived. The oldest specimens in 

 cultivation are dense, narrow pyramids, retaining 

 their lower branches. The color differs from the 

 Colorado Blue Spruce. It is more blue and less 

 white or sage-colored. It is a little bluer than the 

 White Spruce and slower in growth. Plant a few 

 among other evergreens to add contrast. 



Colorado. P. pungens. This is a green form of the 

 well-known Colorado Blue Spruce. In its native 

 forests it is the most common. In a batch of seed- 

 lings there will be this form, which is blue-green, 

 fading to sage-green in winter, and different 



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nice /rom our Nursery, planted on the bleak Hempstead Plains as a windbreak on the property of Mrs. 

 . ers. 1 he Hempstead Plains are 7,000 acres, from one to twelve miles from New York City line, a wind- 

 swept prairie which cost the late A. T. Stewart in 1868 about $45 per acre. How many millions more would they be 

 they were planted ? Groups of this Spruce and the drought-resisting Oaks and Pines would do more than anything 

 ;lse, except better tram service, to increase its value for all-the-year residence. We can supply this size in any quantity. 



