Tree: Norway Spruce
Latin name: Picea abies
Pennsylvania German name: Schprus Bawm
Location: Arboretum at F&M College

Above: Row of Norway Spruce along Harrisburg Ave. near Roschel College House
These spruce trees were planted in the 1930s as part of Wade’s Woods on F&M campus.

 Norway Spruce described in
Plant Names and Plant Lore among the Pennsylvania Germans (1927)
By David Lick and Thomas Brendle:

  Above: The head of this book’s publication committee was Dr. B. F. Fackenthal, Jr.. He also was chairman of the F&M College Board during that time. The college’s Shadek-Fackenthal Library is named for him. The book was published by the Pennsylvania German Society. Dr. Fackenthal was president of that historical society in 1913. Records of the society are archived in F&M College’s special collections.
The book was printed in Lancaster by the Lancaster Press. That building today is the condo building named The Lancaster Press Building, on N. Duke St. and Lemon St.

The Norway Spruce of the former Wade’s Woods
Planted in 1932:

 This row of Norway Spruce along Harrisburg Ave is a surviving remnant of the former Wade’s Woods. In 1932 F&M College planted hundreds of evergreen trees here at this site. The trees later became known as Wade’s Woods, in honor of Robert M. Wade, the college’s comptroller and treasurer from 1929 to 1944. He also was the college’s supervisor of buildings and grounds.

 Robert M. Wade
Namesake of Wade’s Woods:

Image: Intelligencer Journal, Aug. 3, 1944

Links:
Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum at F&M College
 Norway Spruce on the college’s arboretum page.
Map of the trees of this campus arboretum
Plant Names and Plant Lore… Full text on Internet Archive