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MATTHEWS NURSERY 
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Fall 1951 
agriculture 
Spring 1952 
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICHIGAN 
Telephone | 23 or 732 
This area is a natural home of Spruces, Pines, American Arborvitae and other Conifers. Our natural sandy lo®m 
soil, aided by our effective soil improvement methods, lends itself to the development of an unusual root system. 
This, in the final analysis, is the major factor in determining the success or failure of any planting operation. 
Our illustrations are of typical stock dug from this year’s beds of both seedlings and transplants. The trees shown 
are selected to best represent, as nearly as possible, the trees you will receive in any shipment. 
By proper seedbed spacing and soils practices, we are, each year, growing better seedlings with a root system 
which increases the chances of survival when transplanted. 
SCOTCH PINE SEEDLINGS 
A. Scotch Pine 2-0, 3 to 8 ins. 
per 100 $ 5.00 
per 1000 30.00 
2,500 or more @ 28.00 
This year, for the first time, our Scotch Pine seed- 
ling stock is about 90% Riga and other so called 
“Blue” varieties. These are from the best European 
seed sources for color, straightness of trunk, and 
other desirable characteristics. 
The so-called “Blue” strains or varieties of Scotch 
Pine are believed to produce trees of a better aver- 
age green to blue color at Christmas tree harvest 
time and have less of the undesirable gold to brown 
color. However the soil, weather, and other con- 
ditions also cause color variations. 
B. Scotch Pine 2-0, 1 to 3 ins. 
per 100 $ 3.50 
per 1000 20.00 
4,000 or more @ 18.00 
A slower growing Riga Scotch Pine. Most of our 
present Riga Scotch Pine stock in the 1 to 3 in. grade 
is grown from seed from a northern Europe source 
which produces, in this latitude and areas farther 
South, a tree which grows fewer inches each year. 
This should result in a more compact average tree 
and a better marketable product. 
We have not yet proven this to be true by growing 
mature trees. In 2 yr. seed beds they are definitely 
smaller. The complete size range from this type seed 
is shown in illustration B above. We make no guar- 
antee of this characteristic. 
