''1 5 0,000 Selected Specimen Ever greens’’ 
YEW - Taxus 
Blue Spruce 
We offer both Koster and Colorado Blue Spruce. 
The Yews are particularly note¬ 
worthy for their rich, dark green fo¬ 
liage, whose color is held throughout 
the year. They grow somewhat slowly, stand shearing well, and are especially useful for 
foundation plantings. Have red berries for the fall. The Yews thrive in shade and in this 
respect are different from other evergreens. They are one of the few evergreens suitable 
for planting in congested cities, that will survive the smoky and oily atmosphere. They 
are the best evergreens for shady places. 
SPRUCE - Picea 
The Spruce are among our best known evergreens. The needles are short, 
stiff and sharp pointed. They all grow tall and upright, forming a densely 
branched cone. They are used for group and mass plantings, screens and wind¬ 
breaks, and as lawn specimens. 
COLORADO GREEN SPRUCE. The same 
as the Colorado Blue Spruce but the tree 
is a green color. 
ROSTER’S BLUE SPRUCE (Pungens Kos- 
teriana). Lg. A grafted form of the best 
of the Blue Spruces. Foliage is silvery 
blue, densely crowded on the many 
branches. Our stock of this beautiful and 
popular evergreen has been grown with 
great care from stock which we know is 
the genuine Koster's, and can guarantee its 
true blue color and character. 
NORWAY SPRUCE. A very thrifty and 
rapid growing Spruce of a good green 
color. Best Spruce for screens and wind¬ 
breaks. Also useful for backgrounds of 
group and mass plantings, where it soon 
towers up behind the other evergreens. 
Black Hills Spruce 
Taxus brevifolia. Sm. A 
low, bushy, dwarf va¬ 
riety, rarely growing 
more than two or three 
feet. 
Taxus cuspidata. Sm. An 
irregular, spreading 
grower, resembling the 
Pfitzer’s Juniper. 
Taxus cuspidata capitata. 
Med. Upright, more reg¬ 
ular and somewhat py¬ 
ramidal in form. A very 
choice evergreen. 
BLACK HILLS SPRUCE (Canadensis albertiana). 
Med. We wish to call particular attention to the 
Black Hills Spruce. This variety, being the small¬ 
est of the Spruces, develops into sturdy, heavy 
bodied, compact, conical trees. It is a native of 
the Black Hills country of South Dakota, and as 
such, will stand some dryness. Color a good 
green, with a silvery blue cast. It is hardy, easily 
planted and a great favorite. 
COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE. The tri¬ 
umph of evergreen growing; Nature’s cul¬ 
mination in producing the most beautiful. 
The Colorado Blue Spruce is the hand¬ 
somest tree on the Rocky Mountain trail. 
Picture in your mind a perfectly shaped 
tree, with its regular whorls of branches, 
filled with a heavy foliage of a rich, glis¬ 
tening blue, which flashes and sparkles in 
the sunlight. It is used mostly for speci¬ 
men lawn planting, where it becomes the 
prise tree of a man’s property. One or 
two of these trees planted in a group of 
other dark green foliaged evergreens gives 
that group distinction. (See illustration 
at right.) 
ONE OF WISCONSIN’S MOST 
PROMINENT BANKERS AND 
BUSINESS MEN WRITES: 
JOSEPH E. UIHLEIN 
23 % West Galena St. 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
January 9, 1939 
McKay Nursery Company 
Madison, W isconsin 
My Dear Mr. McKay : 
Cm leaving for Arizona for a short 
stay, but early this spring I shall be out 
to see you for more trees and shrubs. 
I have never bought finer stock than 
the hundreds of trees and shrubs you 
hare sold me, and it’s always a joy to 
go with you personally through your 
nurseries. I hope you will do it again 
with me this April. 
Happy New Year to You. 
As always, 
JOSEPH UIHLEIN 
y 
Taxus 
(Japanese 
Yews) 
Upright tree, 
T axus 
Capitata 
Spreading 
tree, 
Taxus 
Cuspidata 
\ 
Dwarf tree, 
Taxus 
Brevifolia 
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