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Ponderosa Pine 
The Bull or Ponderosa Pine, also 
known as Western Yellow Pine, is 
native to the Western United States, 
and is thoroughly suited for planting 
west of the Mississippi River. 
Because of its dense foliage and 
ability to grow in close stands, it 
makes excellent windbreaks and shel- 
terbelts. A prominent horticulturist 
of South Dakota says: *T have a row 
of this tree on the top of a hill, now 
averaging about twenty feet high, 
straight and thrifty as a pine should 
be. Never have they showed a dead 
limb or lost their leader. If you con¬ 
sider it too much work to cultivate 
or even break the ground, just stick 
it out on the sod and if it starts the 
first season it will come on and make a good, thrifty tree, showing that it does not 
mind droughty spells or sod bound sites.” 
Ponderosa. Fine 
Has Dense Foliage, Requires Little 
Space and Grows Well Without 
Cultivation 
Price, transplants Each 
12 to 18 inches.$0.25 
5 at 10 rate; 50 at 100 rate. 
10 
$1.75 
100 
$ 10.00 
MR. C. S. HARRISON OF NEBRASKA SAYS: —“The 
Ponderosa Pine is one of the most rug-gred, robust and hardy 
of all the pine family. This tree belongs to Nebraska. 
It grows thriftily on the bare hills in the northwestern 
parts of the state. You will find it perching like the cliff 
dwellers, on high, barren bluffs where nothing else will 
grow. This tree must be our main reliance for the sand 
hills and is thoroughly reliable for the Dakotas, Minnesota, 
Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and 
Wyoming. It is native and will resist the extremes of 
heat and cold. 
“The last time I went to the Black Hills, out on the 
plains, in a gorge, on a shelf of rock, with no vegetation 
around it, I saw a lone Ponderosa Pine. There it stood 
like an emblem of hope in the heart of desolation. 
“One fall when it had been very dry and all the trees 
were turning yellow, I noticed some trees very green and 
vigorous. There was no water within 200 feet. Having 
occasion to dig near the ditch, I found the roots of these 
same trees had gone down to drink, like a herd of cattle, 
and there they were, pumping moisture into those trees 
200 feet away.” 
C. S. HARRISON 
An Evergreen planting around your home will put the place 300 miles south in climate 
and will add beauty the year round 
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