SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
Borders of little evergreens are fine along walks or drives. 
Select those trees that never get large, such as some of the 
Junipers, Arborvitaes, etc. If you have an ugly bank, a pile 
of rocks or a swamp, cover it with dwarf or trailing Junipers 
or Arborvitaes. The golden foliaged Arborvitaes, Juniper and 
Retinosporas, all are small trees, finest during their first ten 
or twenty years. The proper kind to select for specimen or 
individual planting must be left to your judgment. 
SPRUCES 
Probably the most useful of evergreens. There are a dozen 
valuable varieties, all of differently colored or shaped foliage, 
size of tree, or growth of branches. They are suited for 
windbreaks, forest planting, .home shelter-groups, evergreen 
conifer beds, or specimen planting. Blue Spruce is the most 
strikingly colored evergreen we know of, and otherwise is 
good in every way. Norway is the windbreak tree. White 
Spruce has the extreme hardiness needed for exposed situa¬ 
tions and sections. Plant some Spruces about your home. 
Douglas Spruce. Very large and stately tree with the 
Fir habit of branches drooping. The slender branches of 
Douglas Spruce come down on a slight curve from a tapering 
trunk. This gives the trees a steeple-like effect. The foliage 
droops from the sides of the twigs, and on the end of nearly 
every one of these hangs a 3-inch cone. This is a predom¬ 
inating timber tree on some slopes of the Rocky Mountains. 
It makes stately specimens, and needs plenty of room. 
Roster’s Blue Spruce. One of the most striking of all 
evergreens. The foliage is intense silvery blue, and very 
dense all the way through the tree, especially on the branch- 
ends where the twigs are as full of needles as a chestnut bur 
is of spines. A rapid grower, has regular, slim branches and 
Douglas and other Firs, and Plane tree. This imposing planting would 
cost about $6 to start, shade trees 10 feet high, and Evergreens 5 feet 
high. A $15 evergreen, or $5 Privet hedge, would be much nicer than the 
fence across the front. The thick trees protect the house. 
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