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found with blue colored foliage. Valuable tree as a specimen, 
and also in plantings. 
V /2 to 2 feet.SI.50. 
Picea pungens var. Kosteriana (Roster’s Blue Spruce). 
The best variety of the blue spruce. Very compact in habit 
and a striking blue color. The color effects make it one of the best 
specimen evergreens in cultivation. We have an unusual blue 
variety. 
2 to 2 y< feet, $2.50. 2]/ 2 to 3 feet, $3.00. 3 to 4 feet, $5.00. 
(Specimens). 
PINUS: THE PINES. 
The pines are probably the hardiest of the evergreens. 
They grow in all kinds of soil, thriving in lowlands as 
well as in hilly country. Pines do well on sand where 
few other trees will grow at all. The pines are very 
diverse in character and thus some variety can be 
selected for any purpose, a small area or a large park. 
Pinus Austriaca (Austrian Pine). 
A tall growing tree with wide spreading branches covered with 
tufts of long, dark needles. This tree grows rapidly and thrives 
in any soil. It has a dark somber appearance and is useful 
therefore for backgrounds, 
also as a specimen. 
3 feet.$1.00. 
Pinus strobus (White 
Pine). 
A very rapid grower, and 
hardy in the most exposed 
situations. It can be cut back 
and made as compact as 
desired, but naturally it 
grows tall and slender. The 
foliage is yellowish green and 
needles long and soft. A very 
useful tree, in mass plantings 
and shelter belts. 
2 feet.75c. 
Pinus Sylvestris 
(Scotch Pine). 
A s 
needles. 
growth makes it very desirable 
a good permanent tree, 
seashore use. 
3 feet. 
Siberian Arbor Vitae 
spreading branches and short stout 
A strong growing tree, with 
It thrives on all drained land and is very hardy. Its rapid 
for quick effects, but it also makes 
Very useful for screens, mass plantings, and 
.$ 1 . 00 . 
