TOWSON, MARYLAND • (Cuerqreen 'Drees ^\ 



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You can enjoy many delightful hours in a cool, shady spot like this. 



^_ PINUS • Pine 



^OR CENTURIES the Pine has been the inspiration of poets and artists. Their rugged, 

 majestic forms grow serenely on the loftiest crags. Their apparent unconcern for the 

 Storm-King's coldest blasts and the fiercest flashes of lightning has ever fired the imagina- 

 tion of man. There is just cause, then, for the pines to be considered one of the best, if 

 not the best, evergreen trees in cultivation. One of these trees on the lawn is always 

 beautiful, growing rapidly and gracefully into a towering specimen. Groups of them 

 planted on barren hillsides or stony flats as a windbreak or shelter are always handsome and 

 useful. United in this way they present a bold, strong front to the winds and literally 

 reduce them to whispers as they pass through the abundant bright green needles. Planted 

 to prevent soil erosion these trees are without peer and the dwarf types are perfect for the 

 rock garden. 



PINUS ayacahuite (Mexican White Pine). Has 



spreading slender branches, leaves slender and some- 

 what pendulous bluish-green. 



P. cembra (Swiss Stone Pine). The Swiss Stone 



Pine, from central Europe is of remarkable beauty 

 and quite hardy, as the foliage is not browned by 

 the coldest winters. Of slow growth it forms a 

 dense pyramid, and is well adapted to restricted 

 positions. 



