EVERGREENS FOR YEAR. ROUND COLOR 19 
_EVERGREENS 
for Year Round Color 
Evergreens give a gracious, dignified appearance to the home 
grounds, which cannot be otherwise produced. They supply living 
color in winter and blend delight- 
fully with the landscape in sum- 
mer. About foundations and en- 
trances they afford a pleasing ef- 
fect in color and form variations. 
Give evergreens good drainage and 
occasional cultivation to keep the 
soil from cracking or drying out. 
Water occasionally, once a week in 
dry weather, by soaking the ground 
well. Light daily sprinkling does 
more harm than good. — 
SPRUCE 
BLUE SPRUCE—Good color trees 
are mighty hard to find. We have 
several hundred select little trees 
coming on with glistening new 
growth of blue, well formed, 
three times transplanted for root . 
and top development. They are a real buy. 
NORWAY SPRUCE (The Christmas Tree)—A hardy, graceful, thrif- 
Hemlock Spruce ty grower, used extensively in landscape work. The most rapid 
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Norway Spruce 

tapering to the top. It stands pruning well, so 
that it may be kept dwarf and made more com- 
pact if desired for situations demanding. The 
least expensive of evergreens because of its quick 
growth. Used for entrances, foundations, rear 
group plantings and windbreaks. 
BLACK HILL SPRUCE—A dwarf, compact 
slow grower, with foliage varying from green to 
a bluish tint. Effective as a substitute for Col- 
orado Blue Spruce. Nice stocky trees, priced 
right. 
DOUGLAS SPRUCE (A. Douglasii)—A native 
of Colorado; large conical form; branches are 
spreading, horizontal; the leaves light green 
above silvery white below. 

Cuspidata Brevifolia 
HEMLOCK SPRUCE (T. Canadensis)—A graceful 
and beautiful native tree, with drooping branches 
and delicate dark foliage distinct from all other trees, 
4 pea lawn tree and it makes an ornamental 
edge. 
YEW (Taxus) 
The Yews are choice, dwarf evergreens, densely 
clothed with small, blackish green leaves. Fertile spe- 
cimens have scarlet berries in autumn. 
CANADENSIS (American Yew)—A _ low, weeping, 
broad, spreading bush, dark green foliage and crim- 
son berries. Entirely hardy, and very valuable for 
surfacing beds or forming groups. 
CUSPIDATA—The beautiful Japanese Yew of mod- 
erate bushy growth, the upright-spreading branches 
densely clothed with short leaves of dull green; 
hardiest of all Yews in this country, and a refined 
evergreen. 
CUSPIDATA BREVIFOLIA—A very handsome, 
dwarf and compact form of the Japan Yew, with 
short, richly dark green leaves, dense bushy habit. 
Hardy, close set; slow-growing, it is one of the best 
dwarf evergreens for edging and foreground. 
HICKSI—A beautiful dense, compact columnar form. [RgRRRRAssRsi ghee 36 "7 ‘ 
Deep green. Blue Spruce 

