SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
long-lived. Branches are retained right down to the ground 
no matter how old the trees are. The foliage is light bluish 
green, almost as blue as Colorado Blue Spruce, but not quite 
so intense. In growth, health, shape and foliage, it ranks 
with the very finest evergreens and cannot be too highly 
recommended. Use it for planting alone or for making up 
groups or windbreaks of any size or shape. 
CEDAR, CYPRESS, RETINOSPORA, ETC. 
Cedars are the trees with spicy, fragrant leaves and bark. 
All the year round you can smell them whenever you get near 
where they are, and if you break off a twig the aroma will 
stick to your hands a long time. Cedars make good screens, 
and fair windbreaks. They have the bad habit, however, of 
harboring ‘‘cedar rust,” which is a serious enemy of fruit 
trees, and on this account they should not be planted near 
orchards. 
Cypresses are slender, upright trees of varying height. They 
are very picturesque. In Europe and Asia some varieties 
get very large and live to a great, age, but the only varieties 
suitable for our climate are those of medium size. 
Retinosporas are small evergreens of which we have four 
varieties. They grow rapidly and very thick, giving a well- 
established effect in a season or two. The foliage is finer 
even than Hemlock. While hardy, they should not be planted 
in exposed places nor where you expect an evergreen to re¬ 
main for a generation. Beds and groups of them, alone or 
with small arborvitaes, pines, spruces, and junipers, are splen¬ 
did. You will like the way the branchlets arch up and out 
and down, with the foliage drooping gracefully, for all the 
world like ostrich-plumes. As specimens on the lawn, or in 
massed plantings, they are beautiful trees. 
In exposed situations farm homes should be protected by groups of 
Evergreens. The eight or ten in the upper picture, planted with 18-inch 
Pines and Spruces, would cost less than $5, while the twenty-five or thirty 
in the lower picture, same size, could be bought for $10 to $12. We strongly 
recommend these kinds of plantings. 
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