Picea pungens (Colorado Spruce) : 
Leaves stiff and pointed. Color bluish. An excellent tree, but very 
- seldom well planted. Like P. Kosteri, it is emphatic and must not be 
overused. 
Picea pungens Kosteri (Koster's Blue Spruce): 
Bluest form known. A 7 ery hard to use to advantage as its color is 
so striking. 
Sciadopitys verticillata (Umbrella Pine) : 
A Japanese conical Evergreen. Glossy, green leaves, 3 to 6 inches 
long. Grows to be a large tree. Needs water. When large, moves 
badly but is hardy and should be more used as its color and form are 
so unique. 
TAXUS (YEW): 
Plants usually shrubby and not large trees. Fruit, red and berry like, 
surrounding a black seed. 
Taxus Canadensis (Ground Hemlock) : 
Native. Good for naturalizing. Excellent glossy, dark green leaves. 
Irregular in form, spreading 8 to 10 feet with age. 
Taxus oaccata (English Yew) : 
Not quite hardy in some positions. Freer habit than Taxus oaccata 
repandens, a dwarf form. 
Taxus oaccata adpressa (Small-leaved English Yew) : 
Snow spreads its light branches, but they can be tied with burlap 
strips. 
Taxus cxispidata (Japanese Yew) : 
Very fine. Eich, dark glossy green color that unfortunately some- 
times turns brown in winter. 
Taxus cuspidata orevifolia: 
Short leaved Japanese Yew, dull green leaves. 
THVYA (ARBORVITAE): 
Foliage scale like, close pressed to the twig. 
Thuya Occident alis (Arborvitae or White Cedar) : 
Scale like leaves arranged in a flat spray. Used for hedges. This 
Evergreen is usually unsatisfactory and short lived. 
Thuya orientalis (Biota orientalis) Chinese Arborvitae: 
Grows to large tree and takes on deep bronze maroon color in winter. 
Very compact form if main branches are tied together. Most orna- 
mental. 
TSUGA (HEMLOCK): 
One of our most graceful native trees. Useful in shade or deciduous 
planting. Makes a good clipped hedge. Cones drooping and leaves 
with little stalks or petioles. Leaves white below. Suffers from 
exposure to wind and therefore s always better in group instead of 
specimen and not in exposed situation. 
Tsuga Canadensis: 
Our native Hemlock. 
Tsuga Caroliniana (Carolina Hemlock) : 
Denser than Tsuga Canadensis but more graceful. Hardy and much 
used in cultivation. 
Experience has taught me that spring is the best time to Planting 
plant Evergreens. Nurserymen move theirs in August but that 
is largely" a question of adjusting their rush time to their labor 
problem. Also they carry large stocks and count on a certain 
percentage of loss. We wish to arrange our places for the 
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