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THE CARE AND PROPAGATION OF CONIFERS 
Among the Cone-Bearing Evergreens Are Found Landscaping Qualities of Which No Other Trees 
Can Boast and Which Render Them Especially Worthy of Consideration 
E. BADE 
T HE monotonous 
form of the cone¬ 
bearing trees is a 
strong contrast to their 
severe and regular beauty. 
In unvarying straight 
lines rise their trunks, at 
uniform angles the twigs 
build one set over another. 
Those loose lines and 
changing shapes of the 
hardwoods are never 
found, and the shrubs of 
the conifers are dark, 
mysterious, and girdled 
with immovable points. In 
these the botanist is able 
to find the leaves, though 
Pinas peace is a hardy 
pine of dense, regular 
but slow growth 
the layman calls them 
needles. And it appears 
as if these needles were 
impervious and insensible 
to both light and life. 
Spring and winter pass 
them by as if they were 
forgotten. Should they 
fall at some future day, 
uncounted others will 
have taken their places. 
But that which makes 
the conifers undeniably 
attractive in spite of their 
geometrical regularity for 
garden cultivation is their 
evergreen covering. Such 
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The Pyramidalis form 
of Juniperus chinensis 
is bluish green 
In grafting a 
pine, a V- 
shaped piece 
is cut from 
the stock to 
receive the 
scion 
Abies concol- 
or is the white 
fir, of which 
the Colorado 
form is best 
to plant in 
the East 
When stock 
and scion 
cuts exactly 
correspond, 
the smaller 
piece is in¬ 
serted 
Among the 
hardy spruces 
is P ic ea 
Amorika, a 
dense, nar¬ 
row pyramid 
when young 
