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Richaraea Gardens 

Juniperus Chinensis Pfitzeriana--Pfitzer’s Juniper 
UPRIGHT 
Select Pfitzers grown to stake and especially trained 
for the past nine years to form a broad informal pyramid 
or columnar shape for those hard-to-fit “in-between” places. 
They are particularly adapted to spots where an evergreen 
of an exact height is wanted and where that height is 
to be maintained indefinitely, and to further development 
into architecturally solid blocks and cylinders in a planting 
for the “house moderne.” Spaced 5 to 6 feet apart it 
would take only a few years to make the finest kind of 
evergreen hedge, immune to insect pests. We offer spe- 
cimens with diameters from 30 to 48 inches, averaging 36- 
inch spread. 
Available sizes: 4 to 8 feet. Price, incl. planting $6.00 per ft. 
These are big, heavy trees and even with our specialized 
equipment planting is more than a one-man job. If you wish 
Stone own planting, however, the usual 15% discount 

The UPRIGHT PFITZER, left, just reaches 8 feet; the 
smaller one shown at the right is 4 feet tall. This juniper has 
a wider range of utility, is adaptable to more soils and will 
stand more abuse in the form of city smoke and dirt, competi- 
tion from established plantings, and outright neglect than 
any other. 
J. scopulorum will quickly decline and waste away when 
planted in shade or near large trees and Upright Pfitzer is your 
only answer when you want tall evergreens in such a spot. 
Maintenance in the form of training and shaping is simple. 
The smaller tree at the right is ready for its once-a-year 
pruning—the overly-long tips will be cut back about 16 inches 
at the top, half that much nearer the base. 

NATURAL 

The above photo shows Pfitzer’s juniper in its 
natural habit, a robust, wide spreading, irregular 
growing variety of a species native to the Chinese 
Himalayas, which originated in Pfitzer’s nursery 
near Berlin and one of the most important decora- 
tive junipers in cultivation. Its handsome feathery 
foliage is light gray-green shaded silvery blue 
throughout the winter. 
It naturally develops as a shrub of medium 
height, spreading about three feet to each foot of 
height; of broad and picturesque form informal in 
character. Mature spread is 15 to 18 feet but it can 
be kept to half the size by once-a-year pruning. It’s 
exceptionally beautiful, graceful and hardy, one of 
the best-liked shrub evergreens. 
Available sizes: 1% to 244 ft. 4 to 7 ft. $4.00 per foot 
Includes planting. If you do your own discount 15%. 

