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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y.—Ebergreens 
White Spruce Hedge at the entrance court at the residence of Mr. Charles Steele, Westbury, L. I. Now is the time to 
secure plants at low cost 
Spruce, continued 
Englemann's. Picea Englemanni. Some day this 
will be as popular as the Colorado Blue Spruce. 
It is also from Colorado, and gives every promise 
Spruce, Englemann's, continued 
of being longer-lived. The oldest specimens in 
cultivation are dense, narrow pyramids, retaining 
their lower branches. The color differs from the 
Colorado Blue Spruce. It is more blue and less 
white or sage-colored. It is a little bluer than the 
White Spruce and slower in growth. Plant a few 
among other evergreens to add contrast. 
Colorado. P. pungens. This is a green form of the 
well-known Colorado Blue Spruce. In its native 
forests it is the most common. In a batch of seed- 
lings there will be this form, which is blue-green, 
fading to sage-green in winter, and different 
White Spruce from our Nursery, planted on the bleak Hempstead Plains as a windbreak on the property of Mrs. 
Charles F. Myers. The Hempstead Plains are 7,000 acres, from one to twelve miles from New York City line, a wind- 
swept prairie which cost the late A. T. Stewart in 1 868 about $45 per acre. How many millions more would they be 
worth if they were planted ? Groups of this Spruce and the drought-resisting Oaks and Pines would do more than anything 
else, except better train service, to increase its value for all-the-year residence. We can supply this size in any quantity. 
