How To Use Spruce In A Sentence

Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
A blue spruce, which looks good both indoors and in the garden, is a great choice. The Sun
But when you take cuttings from valuable landscape plants such as cedar, fir, juniper, pine, spruce, and redwood, do it carefully to preserve the plant's health and shapeliness.

The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis. Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
One cubic metre of spruce weighs about 450 kilograms.
It is left to mature in the cellar and the final ripening stage takes place in a spruce wood box, where the cheese is kept for at least 3 weeks.
Yet the overall atmosphere of San Miguel is not remotely of a chichi American town, nor even is it as spruce as neighbouring colonial cities.
Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces. The Guardian World News
The Siberian northern boreal forests, called Taiga, where the fires were burning are mainly spruce and fir trees.
But when Owen gets all his old clobber out of storage and summons a barber to his hotel room to spruce him up, it shows how great he would be as 007.
Trying to "ketchup" with consumer demand for healthier foods, H.J. Heinz dropped the gherkin pickle from the condiment's more-than-a-century-old label logo and spruced it up with a tomato on the vine with the slogan "Grown not made. Heinz ketchup spruces up label with a tomato
Arctic Village is an assembly of 40-odd spruce-log cabins that overlook the serpentine bends, oxbows, and channels of the East Fork.
The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
Another important result of dendrochronological dating of large samples of subfossil wood is the ability to calculate the relative abundance of Siberian spruce in forest stands of the area, which is an index or proxy for the degree of continentality of the climate. Climate change and forest distribution in the Arctic
The blue spruce is growing somewhere in Arizona. Times, Sunday Times
For this reason it is my opinion that manufacturers will tolerate more color variation in Sitka spruce than in the whiter spruces such as European or Engelmann.
Mr Bailey was looking very spruce in a white linen suit.
More than 40 elderly residents living in sheltered accommodation schemes in Wickford benefited from a troop of volunteers who spruced up their homes.
Laterally it graded "abruptly" into the typical cubalpine forest of the Snake Range in which spruce and limber pine were codominant and bristlecone was conspicuously absent. Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit
But an insect, the spruce budworm, has its own dynamic, periodically exploding in population, denuding trees, competing directly with the industry.
Just around the corner of my street, the mechanical laughter of California quail and the quarrel of crows up in the majestic heights of a Colorado spruce that was left to grow, untended for years now.
But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Merler found that A. ostoyae killed mostly subdominant balsam and spruce at this site.
Western gardeners can still have evergreen hollies, but the evergreen choices in eastern gardens are limited to spruces and Leucothes, or boxwood and Acuba in warm-region gardens.
These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
The shores were ringed with tall, stately Canadian blue spruce trees. THE VIKING SYMBOL MYSTERY
He notes carefully the distinctive qualities of particular specimens of goldcup oak, Douglas spruce, yellow pine, silver fir, and sequoia.
In ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and Sitka spruce, dimpling sometimes occurs as numerous small, conical indentations of the plane of the growth ring.
He looked spruce in his best clothes.
My father was fond of spruce trees. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Around the house grows the thick hemlock and spruce forest that has brought more recent income to the tribe.
Like boxwood, this species of Alberta spruce is extremely slow growing, reaching a height of only 7 feet in 35 years!
Kegs of hard cider and spruce beer and perhaps more potent brews are abroach, and behind the haggling and jesting and bustle you may catch the sound of muskets or the whoop of the Indians from afar. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
The red spruce decline was continuing though it was statistically leveling off, since most of the spruce were already dead.
Hunt constructed these lightweight volumes from thin ribs of spruce or balsa wood before sheathing them in layers of silk paper and metal leaf.
Alternatively, a trip to a farmers' market will offer great variety from spruce (the really thin, young stuff for stir-frying) to great big jumbos.
Even that blend is offset by the nearly black green of the higher, distant spruces.
Castledermot is looking nicely spruced up, although some premises are sadly neglected, and in need of a face lift.
The cottage had been spruced up a bit since her last visit.
Paul went upstairs to spruce up before dinner.
But this is a new, spruced-up edition of the bible of the industry, with a cleaner design, wipeable cover, newly introduced plants and changes in plant names. NYT > Home Page
What was remarkable about the spruce was its color: a lambent yellow, caused by a rare genetic mutation that affected its ability to make chlorophyll.
I walked against the current, following a wooded berm, thick with fir, that the river had created over time, cutting off a patch of bog land where early-budding blueberry and blackberry, and gray-black winterberry and tan winter maleberry, coexisted with spruce and larch and rhodora. The Black Angel
At ground level it comprises tracts of both dense and open-canopy forest dominated by conifers such as fir, larch, pine, and spruce, interleaved with boggy terrains.
The spruce-fir forests have been affected by the balsam wooly adelgid, a non-native insect that kills mature Fraser firs, and some forest growth declines are possibly linked to air pollutants. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
They've employed an advertising agency to spruce up the company image.
For in that instant the she-wolf leaped sidewise from the trail into the clump of spruce trees and disappeared. The She-Wolf
A blue spruce, which looks good both indoors and in the garden, is a great choice. The Sun
Clarke renders ‘ut tersis niteant talaria plantis,’ ‘that his wings shine upon his spruce feet.’] [Footnote 87: _God who inhabits Lemnos. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
For which every family in the parish has prinked and spruced and scraped its pennies? At Swim, Two Boys
Wood samples were taken from heavily damaged areas of 22 black spruce krummholz at eight den sites and from four trees located near the dens but with no apparent damage.
A miticide might be necessary if these spruces begin to turn brown from damage. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
Manana Shafieva, a stylist at the Turkish Salon, said many Iranian men bring in their wives to be spruced up. The Tijuana of the Caspian
Before planting either your boxwood or dwarf spruce, select containers that will accommodate these evergreen shrubs up to their mature size.
The role of pollutants in nutrient availability and uptake has been a special concern with regard to red spruce growth.
And, looking upward, there were the dark tops of the evergreen trees, such as hemlocks, pines, and spruces, starred and bespangled, as if wetted with a great rain of molten crystal. Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
In outward appearance, he was a cherubically round man, about 45, in a spruce pinstripe suit and a new blue tie.
My father was fond of spruce trees. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch.
A blue spruce, which looks good both indoors and in the garden, is a great choice. The Sun
The large bullet is a 250 grain Speer hot core fired at 2450 fps from a 350 Rem Mag. into a Spruce log. Field & Stream
On Great Slave River, the higher latitude is offset by lower altitude, and on June 2, 1907, while among the tall white spruce trees I measured one of average size -- 118 feet high, 11 feet 2 inches in girth a foot from the ground (3 feet 6 1/2 inches in diameter), and many black poplars nearly as tall were 9 feet in girth. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
The parameter adaptive law is formed, we adjust the parameters to make sure the density of spruce aphides and their predator track the ideal trajectory, the stability of the system is guaranteed.
A 3-year continuous record of nitrogen trace gas fluxes from untreated and limed soil of a N-saturated spruce and beech forest ecosystem in Germany. Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
Groves of old-growth lodge-pole pine and aging spruce fir exploded into flame like toothpicks be-fore a blowtorch.
The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce.
For uninterested spectators scattered about the arena, they are also a distraction from tennis that does not consistently enthral at this Cincinnati Masters, an old tournament admirably spruced up and repackaged to make a fit with the run-in to the US Open. Andy Murray snuffs out recovery by Jérémy Chardy to win in Cincinnati
Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac. IndyStar.com Top Stories
At noon that day Billy announced that it was time to give me a lobstick; a spruce was selected on a slate island and trimmed to its proper style, then inscribed: The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
An entire show had been cancelled and the theatre hall spruced up with translucent blue illumination and coloured-halogen lights that danced to the music on smoke screens.
Once the flight crew announces descension, spruce up with a swipe of complexion-lifting lipstick, eye-defining shadow and bronzing highlighter.
Often called the "People's Tree," this year's tree is an 85-foot blue spruce from the two million-acre Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Capitol Christmas tree arrives on the Hill
Unbroken barriers work best to reduce noise, but to acquire some semblance of year-round noise reduction from plants, use mixes of evergreens, including arborvitaes, spruces, pines and hollies. Green Scene: Ways to dampen traffic noise on your property
The Spruce Pine-related losses follow North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's June uncovering of what he described as a sophisticated real estate fraud involving a planned community, the Village of Penland, in the western part of the state. United Community Cuts Outlook
To bill it as a return to form would be a trashing of Allen's back catalogue, but it is a reminder of the glory days: indeed, it's a spruced-up version of a vehicle once intended for Zero Mostel, about a misanthropist scientist who spends his days insulting children and recuperating from suicide attempts. Whatever Works
In the boreal region, the most common trees are Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver birch (Betula pendula), and downy birch (B. pubescens). Land tenure and management in the boreal region
The sight of 40 runners streaming over the spruce fences always sends a tingle down the spine. Times, Sunday Times
Forests of spruce, fir, and Douglas-fir, common in the Southern Rockies (21) and the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains (19), are only found in limited areas at the highest elevations in this region. Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted.
Most Spruce Grouse do not migrate, but some do move short distances between separate summer and winter ranges.
And nowadays, the marketplace wants dubs and shiny bling bling to spruce up otherwise unbearably ordinary rides.
The place has also recently been restored and so is looking quite spruce.
When baked in shortbread, spruce tips have an almost fruity flavor, reminiscent of raspberries. Archive 2008-06-01
The name of the paper was “Relationships between anatomical and densitometric characteristics of black spruce and summer temperature at tree line in northern Quebec” in case you want to search for an alternate source. Review of Osborn and Briffa [2006] « Climate Audit
Use twigs, cut ivy, holly and a branch of blue spruce for more of that wonderful festive vibe. Times, Sunday Times
Candles burned on the window sills, among fragrant boughs of spruce and pine.
The lighter colored sapwood will deteriorate just as quickly as pine or spruce.
Twenty young trainees from banks in Birmingham, Brighton, London, Newport, Andover and Bristol, brushed, scrubbed, painted and spruced up the pens.
The ectomycorrhiza are plant-specific and on pine and spruce trees easily seen with the naked eye. The Sun
By 1984, half the supply of spruce, pine, beech and oak had some degree of unnatural damage.
Soon the smells of spruce and dirt gave way to ice as we again crossed onto a snowfield. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
There are also maple, spruce, pine and balsam fir saplings, and patches of wild raspberries and blueberries.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
This is the version we get on this DVD, which is essentially a port of the 1998 laserdisc, though with a spruced up digital transfer.
His irritation quickly faded into pleasure at the spruce and pine darkly clambering up the slablike mountainside. THE LAST RAVEN
Most of our timber trees are introductions too: oak, ash and elm are native, but sycamore, lime, maple, spruce, Douglas fir are all aliens.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
They've employed an advertising agency to spruce up the company image.
Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers. Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
Light armor and weaponry, surcoats and banners with the Boarsden blazon for disguise, everyone looking spruce and stalwart. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Spread the custard over the fruit and then garnish with nuts and mint to spruce up the drabness if you like. July fourth official vegan post « paper fruit
All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there. Walden
The nursery offers other conifers, including Colorado blue spruce, deodar cedar, Douglas fir, and coast redwood.
The building a composition of Finnish pine, spruce and birch, and a testimonial to their special.
Some spruce up scruffy gardens while owners are out. The Sun
But pines, spruces, hemlocks and most other evergreens tend to become giants over time, outgrowing their spaces. Tough Love, Garden Style
Banada Abbey is surrounded by approximately 53 acres, 24 of which are covered with a combination of spruce and pine forestry, with 12 acres decorated with various broadleaf varieties.
From the street outside, the spruced up nineteenth-century facade of the hermetic perimeter block gives little clue to the drama of the internal transformation.
Try rosemary (to invigorate) and spruce (to energise) in your footbath. Times, Sunday Times
Such is the bacillus Thurigiensis which is currently under investigation and may well prove to be an effective agent against the budworm disease in spruce, which is at present devastating some of our eastern forests. Of Microbes, Man and Survival
By 1984, half the supply of spruce, pine, beech and oak had some degree of unnatural damage.
‘Why are they doing this work so early in the morning?’ she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
Use twigs, cut ivy, holly and a branch of blue spruce for more of that wonderful festive vibe. Times, Sunday Times
Smaller, decorative home items also performed well as consumers continued to spruce up their homes instead of moving. Times, Sunday Times
The next morning he and Egarter Vigl spruced up the body with a fine spray of sterilized water, which froze on contact. Then they slid the Iceman back into his high-tech igloo and closed the door.
Twenty minutes later I saw him looking all spruced up, chirpy and chipper sporting a gold earring in front of me at the Sainsbury check-out.
Increasingly, all PEI contractors are moving into mixed hardwood / softwood stands as the old field white spruce stands become scarcer.
The blue spruce is growing somewhere in Arizona. Times, Sunday Times
While Sitka spruce can withstand the ravages inflicted by deer, other species are not so hardy.
This remote corner of Washington's Olympic Peninsula is upholstered with deep forests of cedar, spruce and fir looking over rock cliffs, sea stacks and wave-carved caves to the open Pacific Ocean.
They'd passed beyond the deciduous woods, and the trees on either side were conifers - larch, spruce and pine.
AT last the weather is warming up so this weekend I plan to spruce up my garden with outdoors bargains. The Sun
Several native species have begun to colonize the now stabilized dune area including Sitka spruce, evergreen huckleberry, pearly everlasting, yarrow, and kinnikinnic.
What is causing the small lumpy growths on the branches of my spruce tree? The Sun
The existing factory buildings have been spruced up to house exhibition, workshop and office spaces.
The pine, cedar and spruce are evergreens.
Vegetative cover is extremely diverse: alpine environments contain various herb, lichen and shrub associations; whereas the subalpine environment has tree species such as lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, silver fir, grand fir, and Engelmann spruce. Northwestern Forested Mountains ecoregion (CEC)
Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
Although collectors of real Dylan bootlegs will have been aware of this material for years, this spruced-up authorised version is another technical feat from the Columbia boffins.
Confrontation on Spruce St. is one example, in which a young couple is seen arguing - maybe over a parking spot, maybe having a lovers' quarrel, maybe even sharing a joke.
Occasionally a slight breeze rattles the thin-stemmed bushes and moves the tops of pine and spruce, but that is all.
If anyone can get you looking spruce and dapper, Maxine told me, it's Carol.
Looking over my notes of this excursion, I come upon the following sentence: "To sit on a stone beside a mountain road, with olive-backed thrushes piping on every side, the ear catching now and then the distant tinkle of a winter wren's tune, or the nearer _zee, zee, zee_ of black-poll warblers, while white-throated sparrows call cheerily out of the spruce forest -- this is to be in another world. The Foot-path Way
In the boreal region, the most common trees are Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver birch (Betula pendula), and downy birch (B. pubescens). Land tenure and management in the boreal region
‘I wanted my husband to plant a big spruce so that at Christmas I could decorate it with lights,’ she says.
High above, curved oak, spruce and chestnut grew beside giant magnolias.
In this season of spring cleaning, do not forget to spruce up your investment records. Times, Sunday Times
Light armor and weaponry, surcoats and banners with the Boarsden blazon for disguise, everyone looking spruce and stalwart. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
This restored forest would be dominated by long-lived, shade tolerant species like sugar maple, yellow birch, hemlock, white pine and red spruce.
Then it dashed to the ground near me, dug under a leaf, and pulled up a damp spruce cone.
It also makes specialty parts and accessories, which can be used to spruce up the performance and appearance of existing automobiles.
One great suggestion is using metallic braid ribbon with scalloped edges to spruce up plain metal votives.
The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce.
My father was fond of spruce trees. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It consists of montane to altimontane beech, and mixed beech forests, submontane to altimontane spruce and spruce-fir forests, and alpine vegetation in the European Alps. It also includes small portions of submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, nemoral, sub - and oro-Mediterranean pine forests, and nival and sub-nival vegetation of the high mountains. Alps conifer and mixed forests
The inventive tasting menu may include an intriguing dish of dried scallop or a dessert of milk sorbet, blueberry and spruce syrup. Times, Sunday Times
The tips of spruce trees on the south side of my yard are past harvest time, while those on the north side are still harvestable. How to Harvest Spruce Tips with Recipes for Using Spruce Tips (or Pine Tips or Fir Tips)
Normally I paint and spruce up my little catboat personally. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
The sight of 40 runners streaming over the spruce fences always sends a tingle down the spine. Times, Sunday Times
DVD Talk calls spruced-up re-releases "double-dips" and lists the best and worst of them: GreenCine Daily
When a man set out to build a tannery, he used to go into the woods where he could be sure of enough oak trees to supply him for many years with the bark from which tannin is made; but it has been found that the bark of several other kinds of trees, such as larch, chestnut, spruce, pine, and hemlock, will tan as well as that of oak. Makers of Many Things
Ruth sits down at the piano for ‘Every Summer,’ which is about as straightforward as pop music gets: singer and accompaniment, with some soft-toned synth countermelodies and xylophone to spruce up the edges.
Most dens or attempted dens are in peat banks beneath krummholz spruce and occasionally in peat banks without any trees, or in inorganic sediments along eroded river banks.
The blue spruce is growing somewhere in Arizona. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, the sun shone all weekend, but Blackpool has most definitely had a bit of a spruce up and, boy, has it scrubbed up well.
The options were to replace old cabinets and counters with special-order items, reface the cabinets, or for even less money, schedule a “wood-renewal” process to spruce up the cabinets. Kitchen makeovers for penny pinchers and dollar dolers
Woody spruce tips and sautéed chanterelles neutralize the gaminess of a tender venison.
These include spruce budworm, forest tent caterpillar, jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus), and gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar). Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
The second terrace is marked by terracotta jardinières filled with small spruce trees.
These are the most recently refurbished rooms at the Rubens, so décor is sprucer and fresher than elsewhere in the hotel.
The mixed forests - tall white pine, bristly spruce, oak and maple - seem to extend forever.
So Septimiusfought with his difficulty by himself, as many a beginner inscience has done before him; and to his efforts in this way arepopularly attributed many herb-drinks, and some kinds ofspruce-beer, and nostrums used for rheumatism, sore throat, and typhus fever; but I rather think they all came from AuntKeziah; or perhaps, like jokes to Joe Miller, all sorts ofquack medicines, flocking at large through the community, areassigned to him or her. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
The best trees to plant with wildlife in mind are cherry and mulberry for their fruits, pines and spruces for their seed-bearing cones and deciduous trees that vary in size and density.
In general, these spruce appeared clawed, debarked, broken, ripped out of the ground, buried under large piles of peat, or tilted at ground level, damage that likely occurred during excavation at the dens by polar bears.
Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth - bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. To Build A Fire
Before the bidding begins, the house will be transformed by a team of designers who will spruce it up and restore some of its 1930s features.
In 1947, cedar, maple, ash, pine, fir, oak, spruce and walnut trees covered at least 42 per cent of Azad Kashmir.
A whiff of spruce and pine. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Stunted forms of tree species such as dwarf birch, alder, arctic willow, white spruce, black spruce, tamarack, least willow, net-veined willow and blue-green willow grow here.
Asplenium, epilobium, heuchera, hazel, dogwood, and alder make a luxurious fringe and setting; and the forests of Douglas spruce along the banks are the finest I have ever seen in the Sierra. Steep Trails
Bristlecone and Engelmann spruce were codominant in the stand, with limber pine an associate. Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit
I love to see occasionally," he adds, "a man from whom the usnea (lichen) hangs as gracefully as from a spruce. Oldport Days
In Dr Gerry Mander's temporary absence, we wondered how easy it would be to imagine the new spruce Question Time, relocated to Glasgow and forced, by the general absence of Westminster politicians, to feature instead those who have otherwise gladdened our week. I'm sorry. Do speak up. I didn't quite catch that | Euan Ferguson
Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper. The Amateur Garden
Wisely, the view of the dramatically illuminated boulders, the striking spruce trunk in the center of the room and the signature wooden roof whose narrow spokes - "latilla" in Spanish - give the restaurant its name, remain unmolested. Azcentral.com | news
At higher elevations, it is seral to subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Some spruce up scruffy gardens while owners are out. The Sun
Although most species of spruce prefer moist, well drained soils with moderate to good fertility, they will grow on rather sandy soils if there is a favorable water table throughout the growing season.
He spruced up for the interview.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
Dozens of businesses are set to join together to spruce up an historic Bradford tourist attraction.
He planted a number of stands of spruce, larch and fir trees many of which still exist.
My father was fond of spruce trees. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The capital, Palermo, is also being spruced up with EU millions.
I didn't see any cut Blue spruces but the 90 cm potted trees at £25 are lovely, with their prickly needles coloured with a metallic blue sheen.
From among the gloomy spruces came the light carolling of Fairfax's voice. IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH
Other trees such as pine, spruce, maple, sassafras, and birch made up the rest of the forest.
In a corner, on what had once been a bed of spruce-boughs, still wrapped in mangy furs, that had rotted to fragments, lay a skeleton. THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK
We would like to buy a piece of forest in White Carpathian Mountains, consisting mainly of spruce, beeches and firs.
Athy is planning a day-long cleaning blitz, to spruce up the town ahead of the arrival of a number of groups of important visitors.
Southern Tai Jialin basically is Shan Yang of mixed forest of pine, spruce and birch, Europe.
The principal forest-trees are hemlock, spruce, and Nootka cypress, with a few pines (P. contorta) on the margin of the meadow, some of them nearly a hundred feet high, draped with gray usnea, the bark also gray with scale lichens. Travels in Alaska
She spruced up for the interview.
The track looked sprucer than it has for a long time, " said one Silverstone old timer.

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