SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 



long-lived. Branches are retained right down to the ground 

 no matter how old the trees are. The foliage is light bluish 

 green, almost as blue as Colorado Blue Spruce, but not quite 

 so intense. In growth, health, shape and foliage, it ranks 

 with the ven.- finest evergreens and cannot be too highly 

 recommended. Use it for planting alone or for making up 

 groups or windbreaks of any size or shape. 



CEDAR, CYPRESS, RETINOSPORA, ETC. 



Cedars are the trees with spicy, fragrant leaves and bark. 

 All the year round you can smell them whenever you get near 

 where they are, and if you break off a twig the aroma will 

 stick to your hands a long time. Cedars make good screens, 

 and fair windbreaks. They have the bad habit, however, of 

 harboring "cedar rust," which is a serious enemy of fruit 

 trees, and on this account they should not be planted near 

 orchards. 



Cypresses are slender, upright trees of var\-ing height. They 

 are ven,- picturesque. In Europe and Asia some varieties 

 get ver>- large and live to a great age, but the only varieties 

 suitable for our climate are those of medium size. 



Retinosporas are small evergreens of which we have four 

 varieties. They grow rapidly and ver>' thick, giving a well- 

 established effect in a season or two. The foliage is finer 

 even than Hemlock. While hardy, they should not be planted 

 in exposed places nor where you expect an evergreen to re- 

 main for a generation. Beds and groups of them, alone or 

 with small arborvitaes, pines, spruces, and junipers, are splen- 

 did. You will like the way the branchlets arch up and out 

 and down, with the foliage drooping gracefully, for all the 

 world like ostrich-plumes. As specimens on the lawn, or in 

 massed plantings, they are beautiful trees. 



In exposed situations farm homes should be protected by groups of 

 Evergreens. The eight or ten in the upper picture, planted with i8-inch 

 Pines and Spruces, would cost less than $5, while the twenty-five or thirty 

 in the lower picture, same size, could be bought for $10 to $12. We strongly 

 recommend these kinds of plantings. 



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