White Pine Strobus ) 
Umbrella Pine 
(.Sciadopitys verticillata ) 
For screen planting, along boundaries 
or as a specimen, it is of great value, 
and is of particular interest when 
planted in combination with hemlocks 
and dogwoods. A stately tree of tall 
and handsome growth, with strong, 
horizontal branches; the leaves are 
slender, of glaucous green, and 
are carried in tufts at the ends 
of the branches, giving the tree 
an extremely graceful and 
feathery softness. 
Shows the fine, fibrous roots of our 
White Pine 
would not be entirely hardy, 
semi-tropical look about it, 
which quite belies the actual 
fact of extreme hardiness. 
When evergreens of the 
sturdier types have failed to 
stand the winters in the Pocono 
Mountains, this native of Japan 
has come through in perfect 
condition. One of the most 
reliable and beautiful of Jap¬ 
anese evergreens, and primarily 
a tree for specimen planting. 
Of good growth, it eventu¬ 
ally reaches a large size. The' 
whole appearance of the tree 
is unusual, with its distinctly 
pyramidal form, rather up¬ 
right branches, and its thick, 
leathery foliage of shining 
dark green arranged in whorls 
of umbrella-like tufts, most 
picturesquely quaint. 
Seeing this tree for the first 
time, it appears as one which 
Indeed, it has a very foreign, 
The Nipponesque Umbrella Pine 
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Wm. Warner Harper 
