spruce

• There is good reason for believing that the spruce is the true sacred tree of these rites and that the piñon is only a convenient substitute. —  The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468
• A festoon of artificial flowers and spruce should be arranged in front, and a large spruce tree placed on either side. —  Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants
• The western white spruce is also much employed for various purposes. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• 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 We--the first person singular grows tiresome--we might have now, on our acre, a tree planted by Joseph Jefferson had we thought in time to be provided with a sapling, growing, in a tub. —  The Amateur Garden
• The hollow was crowded with spruce, a low, sparse-growing scrub, and mosquitoes. —  The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon

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