'It’s Not a Home Until It’s Planted” 
Japanese Yew. 
Black Hills Spruce. 
Yew - Taxus 
The Yews are particularly noteworthy for their rich dark green foliage, whose color 
is held throughout the year. They grow somewhat slowly, stand shearing well and are 
especially useful for foundation plantings. Have red berries for the fall. They are the 
best evergreens for shady places. 
Taxus brevifolia. Sm. A low, bushy, dwarf variety, rarely growing more than 3 feet. 
Taxus cuspidata. Sm. An irregular, spreading grower, resembling the Pfitzer's Juniper. 
Taxus cuspidata capitata. Med. An upright form of the above, more regular and 
somewhat pyramidal in form. A very choice evergreen. 
SPRUCE—Continued. 
Colorado Rlue Spruce. The triumph of evergreen growing; Nature’s culmination in 
producing the most beautiful. The Colorado Blue Spruce is the handsomest tree on 
the Rocky Mountain trail. Picture in your mind a perfectly shaped tree, with its 
regular whorls of branches, filled with a heavy foliage of a rich, glistening blue, 
which flashes and sparkles in the sunlight. It is used mostly for specimen lawn plant¬ 
ing, where it becomes the prize tree of a man’s property. 
One or two of these trees planted in a group of other 
dark green foliaged evergreens gives that group distinc¬ 
tion. (See cut on page 14). 
Roster’s Blue Spruce (Pungens Kosteriana). Lg. A grafted 
form of the best of the Blue Spruces. Foliage is silvery 
blue, densely crowded on the many branches. Our stock 
of this beautiful and popular evergreen has been grown 
with great care from stock which we 
know is the genuine Koster’s, and can 
guarantee its true blue color and charac¬ 
ter. 
Norway Spruce. A very thrifty and rapid 
growing Spruce of a good green color. 
Best Spruce for screens and windbreaks. 
Also useful for backgrounds of group 
and mass plantings, where it soon towers 
up behind the other evergreens. 
White Spruce (Alba). Lg. A well known 
native tree. It forms a loosely symmet¬ 
rical tree with rather pendent branches 
toward the base. 
VISIT OUR NURSERIES 
We are rather proud of the 
results produced by more than 
a third of a century of effort 
in the development of Wis¬ 
consin’s Greatest Nursery. 
We are also proud of the part 
played by our nurseries in the 
beautification of city and rural 
homes and in the fostering of 
more profitable orchards. Nat¬ 
urally, then, we are always 
glad to have our patrons and 
friends call at our nurseries, 
located at Waterloo, Wiscon- 
son, to share the pleasure of 
viewing the thousands and 
thousands of thriving trees, 
plants and shrubs in almost 
endless variety. Stop in at 
your convenience. If we can 
help you in any way by show¬ 
ing you the things you are 
especially interested in see¬ 
ing, of course we shall be glad 
to do so. 
Black Hills Spruce and Douglas Fir in our Nursery. 
