“Michigan’s Greatest Nursery” 
Start 
Your 
Evergreens 
Right 
DIG HOLE LARGER 
THAN EARTH BALL 
AROUND ROOTS 
V/h 
CUT BURLAP 
AND PUSH IT 
DOWN TO 
BOTTOM LEAVING 
IT TO DECAY 
PUT MANURE 01?: 
FERTILIZER AT<4 
SURFACE NEVER 
IN CONTACT WITH 
Follow 
these 
Directions 
Carefully 
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DEEPER L THAN f; IT 
WAS IN NURSERY 
-PACK TINE SOIL 
MIXED WITH 
PEAT MOSS 
% TIRMLY AROUND 
ROOTS SETTLING 
WITH WATER 
HOW TO PLANT BALLED AND BURLAPPED EVERGREENS 
Follow directions as outlined in picture above. If ball of earth appears hard and dry 
upon arrival soak it in a tub of water before planting. Leave saucer around base of tree 
so that drainage will be towards tree. Do not put fresh manure in hole so it comes in con¬ 
tact with the roots. Use well-rotted manure and spread it on the ground after tree is 
planted and hole filled up. Keep ground well cultivated or mulched. When watering see 
that ground is soaked to a depth of 12 or 15 inches. Just sprinkling the surface is not 
enough. 
Summer Care 
of Evergreens 
VVith the advent of hot dry summer 
weather evergreens should' be given 
plenty of water and carefully guarded 
against red spider attack. This pest is 
a very small mite, barely visible. If 
allowed to become numerous on ever¬ 
greens that mite will, through its ha¬ 
bit of sucking sap from the foliage, 
cause them to lose their characteristic 
colors and assume a “rusty” appear¬ 
ance. Red spider can readily be con¬ 
trolled by the employment of one of 
the following methods: 
1. Syringe the foliage with water un¬ 
der pressure from garden hose or 
power sprayer, taking particular 
pains to secure a forceful spray ap¬ 
plied from underneath the foliage. 
2. Spraying with a glue spray consist¬ 
ing of yi lb. of a cheap grade of 
ground bone glue in 5 gals, of water. 
(Dissolve the glue first in a small 
amount of boiling water.) 
3. Dust with sulphur liberally on a 
warm day, using a superfine com¬ 
mercial brand of dusting sulphur. 
Follow directions. If used as recom¬ 
mended no injury will result from any 
of these treatments. Avoid spraying 
an evergreen in the middle of the day 
as water alone will sometimes result 
in injury by scalding at such times. 
Repeat treatment six days after first 
application to kill young spiders es¬ 
caping in egg stage and remember 
that applications should be made as 
often as necessary because of contin¬ 
ual reinfestation. 
Complete information on control 
measures for other insect pests and 
plant diseases of nursery stock will be 
gladly furnished upon request. 
How to Use the More Common Evergreens 
Variety Form 
Juniper Andorra CR 
Juniper Sargenti CR 
Juniper Communis SE 
Juniper Pfitzeriana SE 
Juniper Savin SE 
Juniper Meyeri SE 
Juniper Stricta Co 
Juniper Cannarti IU 
Juniper Glauca IU 
Juniper Dundee Py 
Juniper Columnaris Py 
Juniper Virginiana Py 
Shade of 
Soil Green 
Silver-blue 
Dark green 
Thrive in Gray-green 
any well Dark green 
drained soil Dark green 
Do well in Bluish white 
the sandier Bluish gray 
soils of the Deep green 
state. Silver-blue 
Bluish gray 
Bluish green 
Green 
Landscape Value 
(Rock garden —Turns silver-purple for winter 
j Banks —Holds color for winter 
[Ground cover—Browns for winter 
Foundation, border, rock garden, group. Most satisfactory low evergreen. 
Foundation, border, rock garden, group plantings. 
Foundation, border, rock garden, group. Lustrous blue foliage. 
Foundation, rock garden, group. A dwarf, slow grower. 
/Foundation, group naturalizing. Blue berries for winter. 
/Specimen, foundation, group./Changes to plum-purple for winter. 
\ \Holds good color throughout year. 
Groups, naturalizing, screens. Browns for winter. 
Sun or Hard- 
Shade iness 
H 
II 
H 
VH 
H 
Sun H 
H 
VH 
H 
VH 
H 
VH 
Arbor-Vitae Globe G1 
Arbor-Vitae Pyramid Py 
Arbor-Vitae American Co 
Green 
Moist loam Green 
Green 
(Specimen, foundation, group. Formal trees, give plenty of water, especially 
\ in fall before ground freezes. 
Hedge, foundation, specimen, group, background, screen. 
[Sun or VH 
1 Partial VH 
[Shade VH 
VH 
Fir Douglas Co Average Dark green 
Specimen, group, background, screen. 
Pine Mugho G1 
Pine Austrian Co 
Pine Scotch Co 
Pine White Co 
Pine Norway Co 
Light green 
Deep green 
Average Light green 
Green 
Deep green 
(Foundation, specimen, rock garden. 
(Specimen, group, background, screen, windbreak, naturalizing, rapid 
growers. Austrian Pine is best for small lawn specimen. 
(White Pine growB in poorest and sandiest of soils. 
VH 
VH 
VH 
VH 
Sun VH 
Spruce Black Hills 
Spruce Colorado Blue 
Spruce Kosters Blue 
Spruce Norway 
Co 1 Blue-green Specimen, group, background, screen, windbreak. 
Co I Average Silver-blue Lawn specimen, group. Some variation in degree of blueness. 
Co [ Silver-blue Lawn specimen, group. An imported grafted tree, real blue. 
Co J Dark green Group, background, screen, windbreak, woodlot. Most rapid grower. 
VH 
VH 
Vli 
VH 
Hemlock American 
Taxus Cuspidata 
Taxus Capitata 
♦Juniper Pfitzeriana will 
IU \ 
SE [Average 
Co J Moist loam 
stand some shade 
Dark 
Very dark 
Green 
and grow in 
Foundation, group, hedge, screen, naturalizing. 
Foundation, group, naturalizing. Very beautiful evergreen. Red berries for 
winter. 
most any kind of soil. 
H 
Shade 
/Sun or 
(Shade 
VH 
H 
H 
IU (irn^ubr upright) GLCelobe) 
PY (pYromidal) 
CR (Creeper) 
Sir (Semi-£rec4) CO (Cone) 
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