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shades of blue, varying from the green to 

 the color of the Roster's Colorado Blue 

 Spruce. It is a strong, vigorous tree, 

 making a broad pyramid. It was first 

 introduced by Dr. Parry, who sent seeds 

 from Colorado in 1861, and first raised by 

 Asa Gray in Harvard Botanical Garden. 

 On the older specimens cultivated in the 

 East, the lower branches are already be- 

 ginning to die. It is a good seaside tree 

 and should be included in most groups of 

 evergreens for the contrast of its gray-green 

 foliage. 



Colorado Blue. P. pungens, var. glauca. 

 These are selected from seedlings of the 

 above and are blue-green, or sage-color. 

 Being so striking a contrast and a high- 

 priced novelty it has become widely known 

 and much sought after, and promises to 

 remain in fashion for many years to come. 

 In the harmonious grouping of evergreens, 

 it is rather difficult to place as it attracts 

 too much attention to itself. It appears to 

 say, "Look at me; I cost more than all the 

 rest." It cheerfully lights up a dark corner 

 and harmonizes with a background of 

 Englemann's Spruce and White Spruce, 

 graded back to the darker Pines and Firs. 

 The scintillations of its silvery sheen are 

 like a lace of hoar-frost sparkling in the sun. 

 We have hundreds of these trees and be- 

 lieve that we are offering one of the cheap- 

 est opportunities to get trees of good, dis- 

 tinct blue color. 



Roster's Colorado Blue. P. pungens, var. 

 glauca Kosterii. This bears the name of an 

 enterprising nurseryman who selected an 

 extra-blue tree from which to graft. The 

 color of a block of trees is more uniform 

 than the above. Our stock has been grown here 

 for some time, has large balls of roots, and has 

 become well acclimated. 



Oriental. P. orientals. This is the best tall, dark, 

 narrow column. On the Cowl place at Great 



Oriental Spruce on the grounds of Mr. Clarkson Cowl, Great 

 Neck, L. I., showing its superiority to the Norway Spruce on the 

 right, which is ragged and open. White Spruce is equally superior 

 with the added advantage of a cheerful blue-green color. 



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Neck, there is an avenue of magnificent speci- 

 mens 45 feet high and 20 feet broad. This species 

 always presents a dense mass of foliage be- 

 cause it retains its foliage for eight or nine years, 



Douglas Spruce and White Birch at Maxwelton, Glen Cove. Pine, Oak, Spruce and Birch compose well in the land- 

 scape, and they like each other's company 



