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“Tanyosho” pine. This generally becomes 3-4 feet high and 
with a spread perhaps a little greater, forming a broad flat- 
topped mass of dark green. 
Pinus montana Mughus, the knee pine. A dense pine of dwarf 
habit, rarely exceeding 3-4 feet in height, but with a greater 
spread. A most desirable plant for group work, standing well ex- 
posed situations and drought. 
Abies nobilis. A large tree where it grows naturally, but in 
our dry climate of very slow growth. It forms a dense compact 
plant with a spread equal to its height and of irregular outline. 
There is a variety glauca of this with bluish foliage. 
Abies Nordmanniana. Also a tree, but available for sometime 
before it becomes too large. It has rich glossy green foliage and 
a conical outline, its spread nearly equal to its height. 
Chamaecyparis pisifera, the Sawara cypress, and frequently 
known in the trade as Retinispora. This finally becomes a conical 
tree, in ten or twelve years as many feet high. The variety 
plumosa is very graceful and of somewhat lower stature. The 
variety squarrosa is very unlike the others in general effect, 
having needle-shaped widely spreading leaves of a light grey 
green, giving the foliage a silvery appearance in summer, this 
being tinged with bronze as cold weather approaches; there is a 
dwarf form of this, 3-4 feet tall, known as Veitchii. The variety 
filifera has long slender drooping tips to the branches and is of 
lower growth; there is a golden form of this called aurea, which 
has a dwarf habit, 3-4 feet high with a little greater spread. 
Chamaecyparis obtusa, the Hinoki cypress, and frequently 
known in the trade as Retinispora. Of more open habit generally 
than C. pisifera, excepting the dwarf forms. In a dozen years 
it may attain a height of an equal number of feet. The variety 
aurea has the tips of the branches golden. There are dwarf 
varieties. One of these is nana, of rather irregular outline and 
commonly 2-3 feet tall, and the form with golden branch-tips, 
known as aurea. Another desirable dwarf variety is compacta, 
of dense more regular outline and growing 3-4 feet high. 
Pseudotsuga mucronata, the Douglas spruce. This, although a 
tree eventually, will not outgrow its usefulness for ten years, if 
