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Echcard Gillette Southicick^ Mass, — Evergreens 
Vitis Labrusca (Northern Fox Grape). Quite common in moist places near water. Blossoms 
in June. Berries are large, dark purple to amber-color, and of good flavor. Ripe in 
September or October. This is the edible grape of New England, and is improved by 
cultivation. 25 cts. each, S2.00 per doz. 
Evergreen Shrubs and Trees 
Shrubs and Trees are too large for the mail and should go by freight or express. We 
do not prepay charges on Shrubs and Trees. 
Kaliiiia latifolia (see page G9) 
ABIES alba (White Spruce). Two to 2\ feet, 50 cts. each. 
A. Canadensis (Hemlock). A beautiful hardy evergreen, with graceful, drooping branches. 
Desirable for open, exposed places, growing often 50 feet high. It is also one of the very 
best for hedge-planting and stands almost any amount of trimming. 25 and 50 cts. 
A. balsamea (Balsam Fir). A tree with dark green leaves, a rapid grower, and well adapted 
for almost any place. It thrives in wet or boggy places, also on or near the tops of our 
higher New England mountains. 3 to 5 feet, 75 cts. each. 
A. concolor (White Silver Fir). This, according to Dr. C. S. Sargent, is found in its native 
habitat, California, Oregon, Southern Colorado, New Mexico, etc.; grows from 100 
to 250 feet high, with a trunk 4 to 6 feet in diameter; withstands the heat and drought 
best of all the Firs; a rapid grower and quite desirable for cultivation in the eastern 
states: the leaves are long and showy. Plants about 1 foot high, 50 cts. each; 2 feet, 
Sl.OO 
A. Douglasii. 1 to 2 feet high. 50 cts. each. 
A. nigra (Black Spruce). A dark evergreen tree, with short, stiff leaves. Can be grown in 
very wet ground. 25 cts. each; 3 feet, 50 cts. 
Abies Nordmanniana (Nordmann’s Silver Fir). A hardy Fir from the Caucasus, sometimes 
growing 150 feet high. Foliage dark green and glossy, pyramidal in outline. A fine 
lawn tree. It does exceedingly well in Massachusetts. Plants 1 foot high, 50 cts. each. 
