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PINES. FIRS, HEMLOCKS AND OTHER EVERGREEN TREES, continued 
ILEX opaca. Amkuicas lloi.r.v. 20 to GO ft. Makes n licHUtifiil thick conical-shaped tree with masses of 
scarlet berries iliiriTif? winter. This is tlie famous Christmas Holly. 
JUNIPERUS communis. Ju.niper. 8 to 25 ft. Silvery foliage and dense, compact growth. Thrives in 
all Sdils. 
virginiana. Ked Cedar. 35 to 100 ft. A most beautiful lawn tree and for border plantations. 
MAGNOLIA foetida (y rand i flora). Great Southern Magnolia. 40 to 90 ft. The famous "Great Magnolia," 
with broad sliiny toliaare and immense fragrant white flowers in .July. Hardy in Philadelphia, 
glauca. SwKKT Hav. :t to 60 ft. Deliciously fragrant flowers from". June to Angust. Perfectly hardy and 
one<it(iur best native flowering evergreen trees in the South and a low deciduous shrub in New England, 
glauca thompsoniana. :iO to 40 ft. A hybrid originating in Bronx I'ark, X. Y., with deciduous leaves that 
would probably be hardy in the extreme South. The large flowers are borne in greatest profusion. 
PICEA canadensis {alba). White Spici-ce. 60 to 150 ft. Both the green and the blue forms of this fine 
conifer are unexcelled in beauty. Tlie trees feather to the ground, 
engelmanni. KxdEi.MANN's Spi«uce. «0 to 100 ft. Kocky Mountains. A rare species of greatest beauty. 
Under side of foliage light blue, 
mariana ( ni(/i'u). BlvVC'K Spruce. 50 to 100 ft. Very fine dense evergreen, eventually making a well- 
sbape<t cone-like tree. 
pungens. Colorado Blub Spruce. 50 to 100 ft. Foliage silvery blue. One of the showiest of all Spruces 
and an elegant lawn tree, 
rubra. Ked Spkice. r,0 to 100 ft. Much like the Black Spruce, with larger and darker leaves. 
PINUS contorta. Twisted Pine. ,40 to 100 ft. A rare species: rapid grower, producing very small cones, 
ponderosa. Western Yeu-ow Pine. 60 to 300 ft. A Colorado Pine of heavy growth and great size. Stands 
exposed situations well. 
pungens. Table Mountain Pine. 30 to 60 ft. Cones persistent for many years, presenting an odd appear- 
ance. Very desirable. 
resinosa. Red Pine. 75 to 150 ft. Growth somewhat like White Pine, with long needles. Of greatest 
value and beauty. 
strobus. White Pine. (!0 to 175 ft. The tallest, most stately and perhaps the most beautiful of our eastern 
native conifers. Kapid growers and producing quick effect. Soft bluish green needles, 
flexllis. I.i.MiiEii Pink. 40 to 60 ft. Stout horizontal branches, forming narrow open pyramid. 
PSEUDOTSOGA taxifolia. DoroLAS Sprii e. 75 to 300 ft. A dioice, rapid-growing Spruce with dark 
green foliage. Klegant for lawn. 
THUJA occtdentalis. Arbokvitj;. 30 to 65 ft. One of our best hedge plants for tall hedges or wind-breaks. 
TSUGA canadensis. Hemlock. 50 to 100 ft. It can be a .stately lawn tree, a wide-spreading shrub or a hedge 
plant, and in each place it hardly has an equal. 
TSUGA CAROLINIANA. Carolina Hemlock. 40 to 80 ft. This grand new Hemlock, intro- 
duced by us, possesses a distinct pyramidal growth and attains a height of 40 to 80 ft. Its dense, 
dark foliage and graceful habit are approached only by some of the Hner Japanese Hemlocks, 
which it somewhat resembles. Some tine specimens, nearly 20 feet high, are to be seen in the 
Arnold Arboretum, and are the first plants of this Hemlock ever sent out, being supplied by us to 
Prof. C. S Sargent, director, in 1884. 
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