6 Insist on hardy, Colorado-grown Nursery Stock. It Pays! 

Juniperus scopulorum—Rocky Mountain Juniper 
An upright, symmetrical, pyramidal tree more com- 
monly known as Silver Cedar and Rocky Mountain Red- 
cedar. It’s a native of our own foothills at elevations be- 
tween 6,000 and 8,000 feet; naturally it’s hardiness is un- 
questioned. 
When grown from seed it is one of the most variable 
of junipers and produces trees which range from those of 
extremely narrow habit to wide, spreading specimens. Ma- 
ture height, depending on culture and on the tree itself, 
varies from 18 to 380 feet, but trimming can keep it within 
8 to 10 feet, or even less for many years. 

All prices are for specimens dug with a large, solid ball of 
There is also a great difference in color which varies earth securely fastened with burlap. 
from light gray-green through blue-greens, blues, silvery 
grays to an almost white silver; blue-silver tones are us- Planting charge for evergreens is 20% of invoice. 
ually dominant. Gray or blue berries covered with a sil- 
very bloom add considerably to the appearance of some 
older specimens. 
ae in the nursery are Php rece ae times to 
make them more compact and shapely. uture trimming, J. pie 
or lack of trimming, will determine the size and shape, as HESS py aR nee le shape 
shown below. It can even be sheared closely for formal ‘ 
hedges and makes the finest of all hedges. Frequent close shearing for the past six years has made 
these very dense, low, formal junipers. It takes consider- 
ably more time and labor to produce a 3-foot Globe scop 
than a 38-foot tree and the Globes are priced accordingly. 
te a a : To keep the Globe shape they must be sheared three to 
r five times annually. 
Untrimmed Natural Trim Close Clipped 
1% to 2 ft. $6.50. 2 to 272 ft. $8.75: 
2% to 3 ft. $11.50. Just one 4-ft. specimen, $20.00 

Since it does take shearing so nicely it’s one of our 
most versatile trees and is often trimmed to low globes 
useful in formal design. It can be used to advantage in 
both architectural and naturalistic foundation plantings. Its 
“eye-compelling” form makes a good accent and it grows 
tall enough to serve as background or screen in small designs. 
It is occasionally attacked by only one easily-controlled 
pest, an aphid that may suddenly appear in great numbers 
on the branchlets and injure the tree by sucking so much 
sap from these twigs that large areas of foliage will yellow 
and wither. Control is “Black Leaf 40” or any contact in- 
secticide sprayed at the same concentrations you use to 
control aphids on roses and sweet peas. Periodic inspec- 
tion of each tree is necessary; numerous ants running’ up 
and down the tree or flies or bees buzzing around in the 
tree are almost always a sure indication of aphids (none 
of these insects injure the tree themselves). Spray only 
when you find aphids, to spray at any other time is simply 
a waste of time and material. The important thing is to 
look over all your scops regularly and spray before the foli- 
age turns yellow—when the infestation has progressed that 
far you will generally lose the yellowed foliage anyway. 
Some years you won’t have to spray at all; again you may 
need to spray three times in a week to get complete control, 
and then you may not be troubled the rest of the season. 
This year we have very few scops in sizes below 3% 
feet but do have a large stock of really fine specimens rang- 
ing from 4 to 7 feet tall. 

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