TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



EVERGREENS 



SPRUCE 



White. Picea alba. We recommend this as the best Spruce for 

 general culture in this region and northward. It is native from Maine 

 to Alaska. White Spruce has been tested on Long Island for the past 

 sixty years. It keeps in good condition, while the Norway Spruce gets 

 open, ragged and brownish green. White Spruce keeps a cheerful, blue- 

 green color through the severest winters. The reason is, that the 

 White Spruce is accustomed to a changeable cHmate, and 

 the Norway Spruce is accustomed to one more equable. 

 We have a stock of 40,000 trees. They are especially 

 adapted for hedge-planting. They will make a tighter 

 hedge than any other evergreen tree. For extensive 

 planting on windy hill-tops they are excellent. A grove 

 of them will make a windbreak of exceptional density 

 and beauty. On Dosoris Island, the arboretum of the 

 late Charles A. Dana was sheltered on the northeast side 

 by a belt of White Spruce. The trees are now 25 feet 

 high, and excelled in condition and beauty by no other 

 species in this extensive collection. There are also 

 plants in the same group 60 feet high, which stand 

 against the severe winds of Long Island Sound. Both 

 at Dosoris and at Rockaway, the White Spruce is full 

 and dense after thirty years, while the Austrian Pine 

 has died or lost its lower branches, making it valueless 

 as a windbreak. 



For planting at Southampton and similarly exposed 

 situations, we know of no evergreen to be more highly 

 recommended, for it has the ability to stand the salt 

 spray. At Bar Harbor, where it is native, it grows 

 just above the rocks next the surf. It seems to like the 

 conditions near the sea better than inland. For plant- 

 ing on a steep bluff next the salt water, these little 

 trees are excellent, because their dense foliage will 

 prevent the freezing and thawing, with the wind and 

 rain, from eroding the bank. 



As lawn specimens, the White Spruce compares 

 favorably with the Engelmann's Spruce, Colorado Blue Spruce, Concolor Fir and Nordmann's 

 Fir. In fact, it can be used to form the bulk of groups of pointed-top evergreens and 

 rarer evergreens used for borders. 



In Maine we have 25 car-loads of White Spruce from 8 to 30 feet high, which we 

 have root-pruned. We can ship these out on orders of two or more car-loads. We believe 

 our offering of White Spruce has never been equaled for cheapness, quality or quantity. We advise those wishing a 

 large quantity of small evergreens to consider these plants of I and 1^2 feet high, because there probably will not be 

 an opportunity later to get plants of these sizes so cheaply. If you are contemplating the planting of a windbreak, 

 shelter-belt or evergreen hedge, these are the trees admirably suited to your purpose. They are vigorous plants, sure 

 to take hold and grow vigorously. You will be proud of them. 



Douglas Spruce tree with 

 no ball of earth and roots 

 cut too short, showing lack 

 of previous root-pruning. 

 The value of trees depends 

 upon the parts which you 

 do not see. We root-prune 

 and transplant our ever- 

 greens frequently. This 

 adds to the cost, but adds 

 more to their value to the 

 pixrchaser. 



Ball of earth too small. Such a 

 tree is liable to make a very short 

 growth the first year, or it might 

 possibly die unless carefully 

 watered. For trees of this size, we 

 use canvases of our invention 

 which clamp and hold together a 

 much larger ball of earth. 



