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Picea excelsa nidiformis 
(Nest-shaped Spruce) 
Picea glauca conica 
(Dwarf Alberta Spruce) 
SPRUCES (Continued) 
Picea excelsa nidiformis (Nest-Shaped Spruce) 
For want of any authorized common name we have given this tree 
a literal translation of its botanical Latin name. It was found in cul¬ 
tivation near Hamburg, Germany, and described by the introducer in 
1906 as “a round plate-like, fan-forming form with a dense nest-like 
mass of branchlets where the leading shoot should be”. 
It is of such extraordinary dense form, so densely branched that 
one wonders how the light ever gets to the lower branches. Branchlets 
in tight layers, the whole forming a dense, impenetrable head. It grows 
slowly, % to 1% inch yearly. This is one of the few truly dwarf Ever¬ 
greens. Ultimate size is a matter dependent entirely upon conditions. 
Each 10 100 
4-6 inch xx Twice Transplanted. $. $. $10.00 
6 x6 “ xx “ “ .B&B .75 6.50 . 
Picea excelsa pygmaea (Pygmy Spruce) 
This is one of the smallest and most dense growing of the excelsas. 
Extremely slow growing, makes fairly compact conical erect little bush 
with very short and numerous irregular branchlets. At Kew the best 
specimen is a compact but irregular little bush 3 feet by 2% feet. This 
is known to have been in cultivation in England at least 140 years. 
4-6 inch xx Twice Transplanted. 10.00 
6 x6 “ xx “ “ .B&B .75 6.50 . 
Picea glauca conica (Dwarf Alberta Spruce) 
One of the most interesting oddities among Evergreens. It is of 
extremely narrow, pyramidal growth, thickly covered with short, close 
set twiggy branches and clothed in grass green leaves. It is unlike any 
other Evergreens, both in shape and general appearance so that it always 
attracts attention. The parent tree is in the Arnold Arboretum, at 
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. It was found in the Canadian Rockies 
at Lake Laggan in 1904 by Mr. J. G. Jack, of the Arnold Arboretum 
staff. Its annual growth is only one-half inch. 
4- 6 
inch 
XX 
Twice Transplanted. 
10.00 
6 - 8 
U 
XX 
U 
u 
25.00 
8-10 
a 
XX 
U 
u 
.B&B 
.60 
5.00 
10-12 
u 
XX 
U 
u 
.B&B 
.75 
6.50 
12-15 
u 
XX 
U 
u 
.B&B 
1.00 
9.00 
5 of same variety and size at 10 rate; 25 at 100 rate; 250 at 1000 rate. 
Each x indicates one transplanting. B&B signifies balled and burlapped. 
We allow 3% discount and box free when cash accompanies order. 
1000 
80.00 
80.00 
80.00 
