Not surprisingly, one study found that growth of Sitka spruce, the dominant streamside tree in the area, was three times greater along salmon streams than along nonsalmon streams.
It will certainly " balsam" over, " spruce" things up, endure " freezer" temperature, " illuminate" spirits that " needle" a little more light at this time.
The first nation's people living in North America chewed their own form of gum made from the sap of spruce trees, and before long, European settlers across New England began chewing on the stuff too.
Even that most boring of daily chores, cleaning, is given the Ghibli treatment from old Sophie taking it upon herself to spruce up Howl's Moving Castle, to Chihiro's enchanted bath house in Sprited Away.
He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
Often found cooperating with pines and spruce at lower latitudes and altitudes, above a certain point the birch leaves the others behind and goes on alone for hundreds of miles.
This Swedish spruce survived as a low shrub for 9,500 years, but as this mountaintop climate has become warmer, a single trunk has risen above the rest.
Indeed, it was difficult to recognize in this tattered, unkempt wanderer, with ghastly white face and fierce, wild eyes, the spruce young hunter of former days.