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Pine, continued 
Scotch. P. sylvestris. For a quick, sym- 
metrical, cheerful blue-green tree, plant the 
Scotch Pine. Mix in permanent trees, as 
White Pines, White Spruce, Englemann's 
Spruce and Cedar. In a mixed grove of 
various Pines fifteen years old, the Scotch 
Pine is largest and broadest. The tree is 
of good shape with full, round top. It is so 
dense when young that it has good value as 
a screen. We have grown large quantities 
from seed collected on Long Island. The 
trees are bushy, vigorous, and have good 
roots. They will give as much screen for the 
money as any evergreen we offer. Ever- 
green groves should be thinned out, and, as 
these are short-lived, they will remind the 
owner of the necessary thinning in twenty 
years or more. For planting on the sea- 
shore it should be largely used, either alone 
or mixed with the W T hite Spruce, Pitch and 
Austrian Pine and Red Cedar. 
Austrian. P. Larico, var. Austriaca. If the 
Austrian Pine would live in good condition 
seventy-five years, there would be no fault 
to find with it. The foliage is a good pure 
green, the form is round, full and solid. 
The needles are stiffer than any other Pine 
and seem able to resist salt spray, dry 
winds and drought. In the central parts of 
Long Island it is a handsome tree for twenty 
or thirty years. Near the sea-coast it lives 
longer. The best Pines that have been 
planted along the south shore of Long 
Island from Far Rockaway to South- 
ampton are the Austrian. On the main- 
land our statement of its being short-lived 
is frequently refuted by examples of old trees. 
Pinus densiflora. Professor Sargent, Direc- 
tor of Arnold Arboretum, says: "Although 
an exceedingly picturesque and beautiful 
tree, it is rarely used by the Japanese as an 
ornamental plant, although it is a common 
inhabitant of their artificial forests. This 
tree is hardy in New England where it is 
already beginning to assume its mature, 
picturesque habit. So far as can be judged 
by an experience of twenty-five years, this 
appears to be the most promising of the 
two-leaved Pines introduced into the 
eastern states from foreign countries." 
In the arboretum of the late Charles A. 
Dana there is a broad, low, flat-topped tree 
from which we have obtained our stock. 
The color is a clear, dark living green 
even in mid-winter. We recommend them 
highly for mixing in mass plantings and 
covering sandy areas. 
Red, or Norway. P. resinosa. A handsome, 
dark, symmetrical and dense tree, which 
shows no ground for criticism. In foliage 
and form it resembles the Austrian Pine, 
but the needles are not so stiff, and are 
darker green. The foliage remains on two or 
three years. It is named from Norway, Maine, 
and is native from there to Minnesota in dry soil. 
It will make a beautiful tree on the Pine barrens 
of Long Island, for it grows with the Pitch Pine 
on dry, and sterile gravel. We hope to grow it 
largely, and advise planters to mix in a few to get 
acquainted with its merits. 
Mugho, or Mountain. P. montana, var. Mughus. 
The dwarf of a family of giants. Use it with the 
flat-growing Junipers to cover hillsides where 
The planting of some of our cheap Scotch Pines to cover a terrace 
bank. Planted in May, photographed in August 
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The Scotch Pines, \% feet high, which we offer will do this 
in five years. Windbreak to a garden on the bleakest part of 
Hempstead Plains, at residence of the late Sidney Dillon Ripley 
Scotch Pine Grove on Pratt Estate, Glen Cove, planted on sandy 
ground, has furnished the most economical landscape treatment 
Pine, Mugho, continued 
tall Pines would shut out the view. To get a 
quick temporary cover, put in the Scotch, Pitch 
or Densiflora Pines, cut them back, and cut them 
out altogether before they crowd the Mugho 
Pine. In the Alps they cover large areas with a 
thicket as high as a man's head. On the brink of 
a precipice they cling to dry rock, and bend 
beneath the avalanches. Use it similarly on the 
top of a w T all. 
