THE SPRUCES 
WHITE SPRUCE 
(Picea glauca) 
Considered one of North America’s finest 
conifers, perfectly hardy and adaptable it 
is fast growing in the forest and a shapely 
compact pyramid when growing alone. 
The glaucous variety deserves its popu¬ 
larity because of a pleasing whitish-green 
color, often approaching the blueness of the 
Colorado Spruce. 
It will stand low ground better than any 
other spruce; to be happiest, it requires a 
cool, moist, well drained soil, where it may 
grow to 60 and 70 feet and retain its 
branches close to the ground for a great 
many years. Makes valuable pulpwood 
and timber. Much planted for Christmas 
trees, tall hedges or wind screens; bears 
shearing well. 
NORWAY SPRUCE 
WHITE SPRUCE 
NORWAY SPRUCE 
(Picea excelsa) 
The fastest growing spruce, though perhaps 
not as well adapted to this country as the 
native spruces. It forms the quickest 
windbreaks and hedges, looking fine for its 
first twenty up to even fifty years in a fairly 
moist soil. 
For these reasons it has been much 
planted for Christmas trees and for orna¬ 
mentals on the shady sides of a house. It 
forms a vigorous dark green conical tree 
with pendulous branchlets suspended from 
the stout main branches. 
In timber lots it can be planted in the 
shade of other trees. It may reach 60, 70 
and even 90 feet, depending upon the 
nature of the soil. 
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