Garland Globe | 1906-12-29 | Page 1 | White Spruce as Windbreak

WHITE SPRUCE A8 V INDBREAK. tn Many Ways It ts the Best Tree for That Purpcte. As a windbreak, as a shoKor for buildings or as a screen for unsightly objocts, white spruco Ir particularly good. Its ability to stria tho trials of bleak winds Is well assured, and It is unquestionably tho most hardy of tho natlvo spruces. Tho white spruco Is a fiick growing tree, ranking noxt to 'lo Norway spruce or tho white p! In that respect. re-spect. This trco usual y grows 60 to 70 fcot In height, but occasionally roaches 150 feo:. Tho col- - of the follago Is a light, glaucous gicen, and when young It forms an elegant troe of n regular conical shapo. Its habit Is donso, tho branches and foliage making an almost solid mass, which Is of course so desired In a tree to bo used for a windbreak. A little attention at-tention to the proper planting of a windbreak will repay one. It should not be a mteo straight row of trees, as Is bo commonly seen. A continuous belt of trof3 plantod Irregularly mako a much moro ploas Ins offect on the landscape and la even moro efficient as a "break." Oardcn Magazine