SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 



Borders of little evergreens are fine along walks or drives. 

 Select those trees that never get large, such as some of the 

 Junipers, Arborvitaes, etc. If you have an ugly bank, a pile 

 of rocks or a swamp, cover it with dwarf or trailing Junipers 

 or Arborvitaes. The golden foliaged Arborvitaes, Juniper and 

 Retinosporas, all are small trees, finest during their first ten 

 or twenty years. The proper kind to select for specimen or 

 individual planting must be left to your judgment. 



SPRUCES 



Probably the most useful of evergreens. There are a dozen 

 valuable varieties, all of difTerently colored or shaped foliage, 

 size of tree, or growth of branches. They are suited for 

 windbreaks, forest planting, home shelter-groups, evergreen 

 conifer beds, or specimen planting. Blue Spruce is the most 

 strikingly colored evergreen we know of, and otherwise is 

 good in ever>' way. Norway is the windbreak tree. White 

 Spruce has the extreme hardiness needed for exposed situa- 

 tions and sections. Plant some Spruces about your home. 



Douglas Spruce. \'er>' large and stately tree with the 

 Fir habit of branches drooping. The slender branches of 

 Douglas Spruce come down on a slight curve from a tapering 

 trunk. This gives the trees a steeple-like effect. The foliage 

 droops from the sides of the twigs, and on the end of nearly 

 ever\- one of these hangs a 3-inch cone. This is a predom- 

 inating timber tree on some slopes of the Rocky Mountains, 

 It makes stately specimens, and needs plent>' of room. 



Koster's Blue Spruce. One of the most striking of all 

 evergreens. The foliage is intense silvery blue, and very 

 dense all the way through the tree, especially on the branch- 

 ends where the twigs are as full of needles as a chestnut bur 

 is of spines. A rapid grower, has regular, slim branches and 



Douglas and other Firs, and Plane tree. This imposing planting would 

 cost about $6 to start, shade trees 10 feet high, and Evergreens 5 feet 

 high. A $15 evergreen, or $5 Privet hedge, would be much nicer than the 

 fence across the front. The thick trees protect the house. 



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