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TXTXT /'^'^V Perhaps you iuive passed the nurseries between June and frost, and, seeing row upon row of Phlox
K^ ri I iC J /V have wished tlmt you liad more in your garden. Hundreds of people have stopped, liad tlicni dug
up with a little clump of dirt, and put in the car; we do not recall having received aiiy complaint
about the success of this unusual out-of-season planting — they keep on blooming. The great value of Phlox is its profuse
biooni, perfume, long season, hardiness, and delightful colors. We have selected the best colors. You can give them the
stamp of your approval. Buy them in bloom rather than depend upon tiresome descriptions. The picture shows in the
background tall white Phlox, Independence; the big sweep of pink across the picture represents Elizabeth Campbell; the
white with the pink eye, Europa; the deep pink in the center, Jules Sandeau; and the bright red, Baron Van Dedem.
The Phlox sutfruticosa. Miss Lingard, belongs to a diiferent species; this variety has narrow, upright panicles, and begins
to bloom in June, perhaps three weeks before the others. Its foliage is narrow and glossy. For description and prices see p. 45.

LINDEN

Wouldn't you like a full-grown, beautiful specimen tree like this Linden? You can have it,
because it is perfectly practicable to move trees of this size, provided they have been prepared by
the Hicks Method. Not only is it practicable but it is econoiiiical for these trees are time-saving
and give you the results that you want immediately after they are jiut on your grounds. You can come to Hicks Nurseries,
pick out the trees, and have them taken to your home while they are in full leaf. The achievement is yours — the waiting
has been ours. You know what you are getting; these time-saving trees speak for themselves. Our maples, lindens, oaks,
and evergreens have been grown and trained in the best possible way for successful transplanting. You need not worry
about the soil and the exposure; you need not question whether the trees will live and grow. In fact, you need give yourself
no concern whatever after we receive your instructions; all these various things are covered in our part of the contract, for
we guarantee that all plants from our nurseries will grow satisfactorily or will be replaced. F. O. B. nurseries. Packing extra.

SPRING AND SUMMER 1923

HOME LANDSCAPES

TREES : FLOWERS : FRUITS

Prices are for stock loaded at the nursery. Estimates furnished on delivery, planting, freight or express.
5 at the 10 rate; 50 at the 100 rate. Packing free, except for stock of unusual size

USE THIS AEROPLANE VIEW AS A GUIDE. DRIVE AND WALK AROUND. LABEL PLANTS WHICH EXPRESS YOUR IDEALS

SHOW THEM TO A FOREMAN. HAVE THEM DUG TO TAKE HOME OR DELIVERED. PICK FLOWERS AND

FOLIAGE FOR STUDY WHERE THERE IS PLENTY, BUT NOT HALF A $10 RHODODENDRON

1, Fruit. 2, Rock-Garden. 3, Hardy Flowers. 4, Hornbeam. 5, Lindens (22 yrs.). 6, Rare Plants. 7, Lindens (17 yrs.). 8 Beech
(17yrs.). 9, Cover Plants. 10, Tulip Tree and Hemlock. 11, Fir. 12, Oriental Spruce. 13, Yew. 14, Fir (22 yrs.). 15, White p'ine (27
yrs.). 16, Ginkgo. 17, Jumper. IS, Turquoise Berry, Japanese Cherry. 19, Douglas Spruce, Concolor Fir. 20, Flowering Shrubs. 21
Oak and Pine for Forest Planting. 22, Rhododendron Garden, Pyramidal English Oak. 23, Pin Oak (32 yrs.). 24, Linden (22 yrs.)!
25, Maple (27 yrs.). Cucumber Magnolia, Liqnidambar. 26, Jack Pine. 27, Hemlock Hedge (52 yrs.). 28, Red Pine (11 yrs ) Holly'
29, White Pine (27 yrs.). 30, Colorado Blue Spruce (17 yrs.). 31, Cephalonian Fir. 32, Mr. W, W. Cocks. 33, Mr, W. R. Grace. 34'

Mr. George Rose. 35, Mr. J. S. Phipps. '

GUARANTEE

We guarantee every plant
from OUT nursery, and give
new ones for those that do
not grow satisfactorily. The
cost of transportation and
planting of replaced trees
is borne by the purchaser

HICKS NURSERIES

I. HICKS & SON

Nassau Co. (Phone 67.68) WESTBURY, L. L, N. Y.

S HAD E
TREES

Acer platanoides • NORWAY MAPLE

If you wish the darkest green, most tlme-sa^'ing shade, with
the least doubt or risk, the Noxnvay Maples here offered will
supply it.

Norway Maples are favorite shade trees in the entire eastern
section of the United States. Thej^ make a fairly rapid growth,
adapt themselves readily to different types of soil and a diver-
sity of climatic conditions, and are extremely well developed
at maturity. The sandy loam soil of Long Island seems excel-
lently suited to their needs. '

"How will I fit the foliage or the trees to my needs?" Tell
us your ideal, and we will help you decide how near you can
come to it. Is it a street tree or trees in front of your house
that will really shade the sidewalk and will be higli enough not
to interfere with the tops of automobiles? Trees 33-2 to 5 inches
in diameter will do this immediately with the least expense. Is
it a sluided grove under which the children can play or where
you can have a garden party? The trees are of the same size,
but some of them, selected \\ith shorter trunks or lower branches
will give you the most and quickest shade for the money.

Will one kind of a tree make the most beautiful grove? Not
often; j'ou can add variety without discord with oak, linden,
tulip and sweet gum.

What \\ill take away the bare look? One tree at the corner
of the house, or, better, a grove at each end. How locate the
tree? Sunshine in every room some time of the day is best.
Shadows passing over the roof, windows, and porch are also
desirable. That brings back the question of where you
imagine you should like to have a tree, how big, how high, how
wide to have the branches. Is it 30 feet high, 25 feet wide,-
with a view under up to 12 feet? You can pick it out from
these trees listed or in the nursery. You will have satisfaction
either

You can have shade this sum-
mer. You can have better shade

by planting a group of two or three of these Maples with
oak, linden, or Tulip Trees. This tree was planted in
full leaf, in midsummer, and photographed a few days after.
The high quality of these trees permits you to use them for
street planting where you wish to lift the street out of the
ordinary, or where you wish to show real comfort instead of
a doubtful proniise of shade five years hence. Some people
are taking out the little trees planted by the real estate com-
panies and putting in good trees like these. The oaks on
way. page 6 and Liquidambar on page 4 are also suitable.

Look at the house settings you like best and see if the house is not open on the south to the sun and flanked
with a grove of trees at the east and west. If that is the case, and you have room to do the same,
stake out your group of trees 20 to 30 or more feet apart. We will help you arrange them or we
will measure the trees and report to your landscape architect.
As you will see from the airplane view in the frontispiece, there is an abundance of big,
broad trees twenty to thirty years old for you to choose front. Perhaps you have not

Maples that have just been planted in full leaf
with the roots in a ball of earth.

Will they grow? Surely. Will the buyer be pleased?
Yes, indeed.

thought of using such large trees, but when you figure it all out j-ou will find that in
many situations it does not paj^ to wait. Maybe, as many people ha^'e expressed it in
different ways, they did not know such fine trees were available.

Perhaps the purchase of time-saving trees has not entered your calculations, but
it will take very little calculation to show that for many situations it is cheaper
to get a time-saving tree that is dug right, planted right, and guaranteed. To
return to the trees mentioned for street trees and illustrated on this page,
if you are designing a formal entrance-court, street, plaza, or square,
they will cause tlie place to be admired. The trees are not future prom-
ises, not little saplings, but trees that will make your design attractive.

Estimates furnished for delivery and planting. Guaranteed to
grow satisfactorily or a nev,- tree furnished, dug and loaded at the
nursery.

Prices of Norway Maples

Height Diam. Each

18-22 ft. 4 in S15 00

18-22 ft. 41^ in 25 00

18-22 ft. Sin 40 00

22-24 ft. 6 in., 16 vrs. old 50 00

24-26 ft. 7 in 80 00

24-30 ft. 8-10 in 100 00

26-32 ft. 10-12 in 150 00

28-35 ft. 12-14 in., 25 yrs. old 175 00

100

S125 00

SHOO 00

225 00

350 00

450 00

750 00

900 00

1250 00

1500 00

tVVESTBVyRY, LOMG ISLAND^y^

SHADE TREES

The hundreds
of Sugar Maples
we offer are a year
or two older than
this picture. They
are just right for
extensive planting
in a grove or for
streets. Other
street trees at low
rates are Liquid-
ambar, page 4,
oak, page 6. lin-
den, page 9.

Acer saccharum. SUGAR MAPLE. For tlie region wliere it is native anci lor the nortliern
slope of Long Island, the Sugar Maple grows well. In explanation it might be said that the
Norway Maple does better than the Sugar Maple on the sand and gravel subsoil f,

of most of Long Island, keeping a darker green foliage in the dry, hot ' ■"

period. We have several hundred Sugar Maples 10 to 12 feet high, just
right for extensive street planting where trees of the usual size are wanted.
They arc straight and will be dug with good roots.

We have a few large-sized trees ten to thirty-five years old that have
been grown wide apart and are perfect specimens. Many people come
back from their vacations in September and expect that by using Sugar
Maples they can get the same color-effect they have seen in a higher
altitude and more northern latitude, but it cannot be done on Long
Island. It can be done with oaks and liquidambars.

They make the same mistake with elms, thinking that by f.

ordering them they will get the elm curve in asoil and climate where .'i

the elms are not native and do not reach their highest beauty. f. v^-

HtiRht Diani. Each 10 100

10-12 ft.. \li in., 10 vrs. old. . .S2 50 $22 50 S200 00

12-14 ft. 23^; in 6 00 50 00

16-20 ft. 3 in 15 00 100 00

18-20 ft. 4 in ' 25 00 225 00

22-26 ft. 5 in 50 GO 450 00

BEECH. See Fagus.

Carpinus Betulus. EUROPEAN HORNBEAM. Py-
ramidal Shape. Some European trees seem to grow
larger and stand more sun and dry wind than their
American relatives, such as beech, nia])le, linden, and
hornbeam. The European Hornbeam is related to
the beech and makes a large, broad tree with a dense
mass of small leaves, while the American Hornbeam
is a small, open tree in the undergrowth, like tiie
dogwood. Trees that siiow the handiwork of man
are interesting. Our Hornbeams have been clii>ped
for many years and yott get the same results as if
you inherited your place. Tall, narrow screens
are needed in many places, and these clipped
plants are so dense and t^viggy that they make a
fair screen in winter. These have been clipped to
the form of a tall, tapering spire and will make
charming narrow hedges or pleached alleys around
formal gardens.

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Height Each

8 ft S15 00

10 ft.. .. .. 18 00

Height Each

12 ft S25 00

14 ft 40 00

16 ft 50 00

18 ft 60 00

20 ft 65 00

22 ft 75 00

Sheared standard pyramids of Hornbeatn twenty years
old. This picture was taken tliree or four years ago. Land-
scape architects returning from Europe enthuse over
similar hedges, and urge that we prepare them. They add
a new dimension to landscape as compared with the little
tree that "you can pat on the head." The landscape that
you can see by looking over the hedge is not as interesting
as one that is divided and invites exploration into its mys-
teries. These Hornbeains have been used from the Berk-
shire Hills to Pittsburgh in the finest formal gardens. They
are dug with balls of earth so you can plant them at any
time of the year.

Cornus Kousa, Japanese Flowering Dogwood. The plants we offer
are as high as these. They are well set with bloom-buds, so you
need not think you have got to wait and that this is another of the
new plants that need the patience of previous generations. This
picture is on a drive at Cold Spring Harbor, showing how completely
it harmonizes with native landscape.

Cornus florida. WHITE-FLOWERING DOGWOOD.

The strata of white which its blooms produce on the edges
of the forest and in the forest have made people love it.
You can safely use Dogwood in your shrubbery to raise
up the sky outline, but more especially to underplant oak,
pine, tulip, liquidambar, and other trees, for it delights in
a partly sliaded position and does not like to stand alone
in a dry, windy situation.

Height Each 10

5 ft S2 50 S20 00

6 ft 4 00 37 50

8 ft 7 00 65 00

10 ft 8 00 75 00

C. floricJa rubra. RED-FLOWERING DOGWOOD. The
red variety of common Dogwood. You can add small ones
to your ]>resent collection or graft on the old trees. No
im])rovement of a native plant has come more rapidly in
favor than the Rcd-Ilowering Dogwood. Only a few years
ago it was found in Virginia and we found it on Long Island.
Height Each 10

2-3 ft 53 50 S30 00

4-5 ft 4 00 35 00

C. Kousa. JAPANESE DOGWOOD. You will be proud to
help introduce a new plant that harmonizes with Long
Island scenery. It is rather difficull to get a garden shrub,
as althea or weigela, to look harmonious in the woodland.
This looks almost exactly like the White Dogwood, except
that it is a month later. The old trees in the Dana Arbore-
tum, Glen Cove, are white snowbanks 15 feet high and 20
feet broad the last of May. Plant them in quantit3' along
the borders of the woods, in the woodland, and shrubbery.
Present one to a friencl.

Height Each 10

2-4 ft SI 00 S9 00

8 ft 6 00 50 00

10-12 ft 15 00 125 00

HICKS AIWRSERIES

SHADE TREES

These Beeches from the Hicks Nurseries bound the lawn and
screen the road. Does this not look more dignified than the usual
hedge and shrubbery? Consider low-branched pine, hemlock, oak,
linden and dogwood, with a cover of azalea and laurel.

Fagus americana. AMERICAN BEECH. Perhaps yoii
iiavc always admired the Beecli — tlie one clieerful spot in
a grove of dark and gloomy tree trunks. Perluips you liave
never thought to have it on your lawn or in your woods.
Maybe you have tried and found it diirrcult to get or to
make Itve. You will find tliese dinicultics overcome, for
once we Iiave them root-pruned and moved to your place
with big balls of earth, they are sure to grow. The trees we
offer are low-branched specimens. Tliey can be used for
mass planting instead of sSirubbery, or trees with tali stems
that j'ou can plant in the woods or as a lawn tree to look
under. Perhaps, like many people, you iiave a strip of
monotonous woodland and wisii to lighten it up. These
plants, 5 feet high, are just the thing. They are so rare in
nurseries tluit our stock is utilized from Massachusetts to
Michigan.
Hciglit Each 10 Height Eacli 10

3ft S3 00 S27 50 I 8ft S18 00 $16000

4 ft 4 00 35 00 1 10 ft 30 00 280 00

5 ft 5 00 45 00 12 ft 40 00 350 00

6 ft 6 00 50 00 I 14 ft., 18 yrs. 50 00 450 00

F. sylvatica. EUROPEAN BEECH. Like the Norway
maple, the European Beech seems to do even better when
in the open than its American relatives, because the foliage
is darker green and not so liable to show burning by hot
winds. It has taken fifteen to twenty years to grow up
this stock, but it is ready now and sure to grow. You can
use them as in the illustration, for a low-branched boundary
planting, or for a hedge. Beech hedges rank next to walls
as substantial garden boundaries ia Europe. Here is your
chance to get one iminediately 10 to 15 feet high. It wilt
be much cheaper than a masonry wall. It holds its leaves
in the winter when most deciduous trees are bare. If you
are thinking of a barrier for the laundry-yard, entrance-
court, street, or background for the flower-garden, consider
a hedge of the Beech and also of the hornbeam. A carload
of these Beeches will lift your landscape out of the ordinary.
They are certain to grow and their dignity and old age will
show that they are worth the money.

Height Each 10 Height Each 10

3-4 ft. . .S3 00 S27 50 I 10 ft S25 00 S200 00

4-5 ft. .. 4 00 35 00 12 ft 35 00 300 00

6 ft 6 00 50 00 14 ft., 18 yrs.

8 ft 15 00 120 00 I old ". . . 50 00 450 00

F. sylvatica purpurea. PURPLE BEECH. The Purple or
Copper Beeches are well known for their deep purple or
reddish purple foliage in May and June. 6 ft. high, SIO each.

Ginkgo biloba. JAPANESE MAIDENHAIR TREE;
GINKGO. A tall tree willi long branches standing at an
upward angle. The foliage is, as described in an old Cliinese
botany, "shaped like a duck's foot" and, being thick and
leathery, it stands city smoke.

Height Each Height Each

6- 8 ft S3 00 I 12-14 ft S15 00

10-12 ft 8 00

Liquidambar Styraciflua. SWEET GUM. If you want
several hundred street trees, 10 feet high, on loamy soil of
the type between Flushing and Woodbury or between New
York and Trenton or New York and Stamford, these are
the best we can suggest. Liquidambar is native in the
regions mentioned, and, next to the tulip tree it is the
tallest and straightest. Its autumn color is the most bril-
liant of any tree of the region at that time; the Oaks turn
red later. You can make your street famous with the
autumn color of j'our Sweet Gum, or Licpiidambar. It has
not been available in quantity heretofore, and it has been
considered hard to transplant, but we have overcome these
difliculties. The Liquidambar needs but to be known to
become a favorite and the reason so few people do know it
is because it has been so little planted anti because few of
us go in the woods to study. Another reason is that it
reaches its northern limit near Stamford and therefore it is
not as common as in the South.

The larger trees offered are beautiful, symmetrical, and
shaped like the linden or sugar maple. They save you time,
they are big enough for the children to climb in, and they
are so beautiful, clean, and vigorous that you cannot pick
out a handsomer tree or one you will be more proud to show.
Hcigfit Diam. Each 10 100

10-12 ft. 11.'.^ in S3 50 S30 00 $275 00

12-14 ft. 2-3 in 6 00 50 00 400 00

14-18 ft. 3-4 in 25 00

16-20 ft. 4-5 in. 17 yrs, old . , .45 00

16-22 ft. 5-6 in....; 60 00

Liriodendron Tulipifera. TULIP TREE. A txill, ovate
tree native on the northern slope of Long Island and at
Wantagh on the southern slope. Flowers appear in June
and resemble large yellow tulips, shaded with green. You
will admire the tree on street, lawn, or in the forest, for its
straight trunk is as graceful as a Grecian column. Because
they are diflicult to transplant, we take them up with big
balls of earth, like an evergreen, any time of the year.
Height Each 10 Height Each 10

8 ft.... S3 00 525 00 114 ft S15 00 S120 00

10 ft .... 4 00 35 00 I 18 ft 25 00

Magnolia acuminata. CUCUMBER MAGNOLIA. Closely
resembles its relative the tulip tree in form of tree and color
of bloom. If the purple grackles leave it alone in July, it
will have a heavy crop of red cucumbers in September,
These open and the scarlet seeds hang out on the silken
threads for the robins. The large trees should be considered
in making up a collection of shade trees, for while they
harmonize with other trees. Height Each

they differ just enough to . .-jlfc 6 ft S3 00

relieve the monotony of Long 'MSI? 8 ft., 10 yrs, old. 8 00
Island landscapes.

Liquidambar. You can have trees like this immediately if root-pruned
and moved with big ball of earth. You do not have to cut them back and
wonder if they are going to live and wait five years to get a broad tree
like this. Many people want something out of the ordinary, that is, of
high quality and not a freak. Here's a tree that meets all these require-
ments. We are proud of the achievement in growing them and being
able to move them successfully, and we are sure you will be proud of
the fact that you are helping popularize a good tree that is but little
known. View on St. Johns Lake, Cold Spring Harbor.

^#tWESTBVyRY, LOAIG ISLAAJD^M

SHADE TREES

Liquidambar

Quercus • OAKS

If you say Oaks are slow, we are going to prove:

First, that you are mistaken.

Second, that we have done the long waiting and
that they are here ready for you.

Third, that if you dechne to plant Oaks where
they siiould be planted, it is a condemnation of 3'ou
and not of tlic trees.

Either pay the price of Oaks planted so tliat they
will live or plant poijlars and see them drop their yellow, purple the richest colors you can

, . ' i V , I I- 1 I I I I imagine, if not the brightest, are mingled on

leaves m a summer drought and die back and look this tree in early autumn. The cork ridged^

sad and make your landscape look cheap and [jj'f f^^"^ ^p"^ ^^^^ ''^" ■ ^^^"^ y°" *° ''"°^

shoddy. If you admire Oaks, you can have them.

All you have to pay is the difference between the valueof a tree that has had expert nursery care for fifteen

years or more, and a little ordinary tree tliree or four years old.

You ha^'e often wished that you could put your own character, that of your business, countrj^ estate, and social
standing on an Oak plane. Now you have a chance to plant a truck-load, carload, or barge load. You cannot
get better Oaks, nor can you get good Oaks cheaper. We do not mean to be impertinent, but to be em])iiatic, so
that you will know that now is tlie time to make your landscape the best one possible in an Oak country. For
this is an Oak countiy — 80 per cent of the forest is Oak; tiie trees that stand up against ocean blast and prairie
wind are Oak; the noblest trees left along property line and road are Oak; there is an Oak for every degree of
soil-fertility and soil-poverty, for every degree of soil-moisture, from desert to swamp, for each degree ol exposure,
from prairie and seashore to sheltered forest. We have them and you need them.

Will you get the rigiit Oak in the right place? Tell us where you are and we will look up your conditions and
tell you what you should plant. We will not tell you what we can make the most profit on. We know some are
difficult to move, but we have prepared them to be moved. We have developed machinery and trained men to

move them properlj'. We will remind you to give them
a drink in June and July when thirst means death.

If you are too busy to come to the nursery, tell us
your heart's desire, and we will see that it is realized.
But if you possibly can, come to the nursery half an
hour or half a day; you will enjoy picking out the com-
panions of your lifetime and that of your children's chil-
dren. You will have the satisfaction of kno\\ing that
you are in an Oak country, and that in planting an Oak
you are planting a most enduring monument. People
will say, "Who was wise enough to jalant the Post
Oak on that gravelly ridge." "Oh, that was so and so,
back in 1923. It is the finest old tree in this region."

Oaks are considered by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture to be the best trees for street
planting. It is probable that Oaks luwe not been more
widely planted because of the prevalent belief that they
are slow growers, and because in the Nortli they are
rather difficult to transplant. A White Oak, however,
which is one of the slow-growing varieties, will reach
the same height as a sugar maple in the same period ot
time, and maples have been used much more widely
than Oaks for street ornamentation, despite
many unsatisfactory characteristics. Jb

Quercus coccinea — Scarlet Oak. You admire the autumn colors of
the Long Island forests. We have a quantity of these with clear stems
of S feet and symmetrical tops 12 feet high. They were transplanted
three years ago, so they will come up with balls of earth as on page 7
and be as certain to live as a Poplar. It was twelve years ago that we
planted the seed; they would have grown faster if we had not root-
pruned them by L blade, windlass, and gas engine, and transplanted
them, but those expenses were necessary to make them as easy to
transplant as the poplar and the type of trees usually grown in nur-
series but which are more likely to make your place look shoddy.

IN JUNE-

Proof that Oaks when established grow just as fast as maples,
shows two growths in one season as indicated

Photo

HICKS AiV/RSERIES

SHADE TREES

Quercus alba. WHITE OAK. "Tlie noblest Roman of
lliem all." It is slow, but we ivave been looking lliroiigh a
nursery on the Hempstead Plains planted witli supposedly
quick-growing trees, and the Wiiite Oak and Scarlet Oak
have now become the largest of them all. The faster growing
trees from swamp or sections having a rainy climate slowed
down and are growing thin and sad. Do you want to add
one Oak tree to your present collection of trees? Do you
want a tree with the limbs just right for the children to
climb? Even if you have to cut out a tree to put in the Oak,
it is worth doing. Have you a boundary of tall, flat-topped
shrubs? Shrubs were cheap and available when your place
was planted maybe, and they have filled up the plan and
ground. Oaks \yere not available. Will you take out four
shrubs and put in an Oak?

Have you an entrance drive where you would like White
Oaks? You can see one on the estate of Mr. Payne Whitney,
Manhasset, Long Island, arrairged by Guy Lowell anci
A. R. Sargent, Landscape Architects. The White Oaks are
helped by an underplanting of wild roses.

Height Diam. Eacfi 10 100

4ft SI 50 SI 2 50 S90 00

6 ft 2 00 15 00 100 00

10 ft. U^ in 5 00 45 00 400 00

12 ft. 23-4 in 10 00 90 00

14 ft. 3-4 in., 15 yrs. old 15 00 125 00

White Oak and White Pine on the estate of Mr. E, D. Morgan,
Wheatley. In 1893 we planted the pines and they are now big enough
for saw fogs. White Oak and White Pine are happy companions.
Pines love company, either of their own kind or the Oaks. The picture
shows the beauty, strength, and dignity of a young White Oak and
persuades you to come to the nursery and pick out one like it. See
if you don't admire its sturdy, blacksmith-like arms, its complete
self-sufficiency. Do you want your street to be like Bowne Avenue
of Flushing — an avenue of Oaks? At Hicks Nurseries are Oaks that
have the characters in the picture. They are seventeen years old.

One great asset of a place in the country is the cool summer

breeze. To get the full benefit of the breeze you need shade

trees. They attract the breeze and the moisture transpiring

from the leaves cools the air. One commuter said when left alone

to take care of his children "The coolest place and the best place for

the children is right here." He had a sand box and slide under a big

Maple like this in the corner of his lawn. He had not planted a little

sapling which would make shade after the children had grown too big

for the sand box. He planted a big tree 20 years old.

The tree in the distance on the right has the elliptical curve of the Linden.

The tree on the left has the tent- form branches of the Pin Oak. The spray

of leaves in the corner shows the autumn color of the Oaks.

In the background the boundary to the street or the next property may be a hedge

or a border of shrubs and evergreens. All of these things you may find most economical

to buy ready to do their work without waiting to grow up.

Quercus bicolor. SWAMP
WHITE OAK. This has 90
per cent of the dignity of the
White Oak. It grows on
hard-pan and clay soils and
is, perhaps, 25 per cent faster.
You will see an avenue of
them at Halesite, Long Is-
land; big old specimens at
Cedar Swamp, Flushing, and
Summit, N. J., and on river-
bottonis elsewhere. If you
are planning a park, play-
ground, school-ground, sta-
tion plaza, street, avenue,
forecourt, or general land-
scape in such soil, these trees
we offer will give you the best
possible service. They are
big enough. No one will
laugh at you for planting
Oaks. We will transplant
them in a way that removes
the risk from you. They ■svill
have such big balls of earth
that we will be willing to
transplant them in full leaf.
There is an avenue of them
at Swart h more College,
Swarthmore, Pa. The early
college papers printed jokes
about playing leap-frog over
the Scrub Oaks. No one can
play leaf-frog over them now
for they are the biggest and
noblest trees there.
Heiglit Diam. Eacli 10

14-16 ft. 3i4 in.S25 00 S225 00
18-22 ft. 43^ in. 45 00 400 00

Q. coccinea. SCARLET

OAK. The most beautiful
tree in the Long Island for-
ests is the Scarlet Oak.
Much of the Scrub Oak land
is really coppice or sprouts
from stumps of Scarlet Oak;
they have been burned and
reburned since the advent of
the railroad. The Scarlet
Oak is a noble forest tree of
large dimensions, adapted to
dry sand and gravel. It has
taken us many years to accu-
mulate a stock so that we
can offer them freely. Now
you have the advantage of
getting the most brilliantly
colored and most drought-
resistant foliage combined in

^ajyp^WES TBVyRY.

LOAIG ISLAAJ DlsM

SHADE TREES

Chestnut Oak or
Rock Oak is a tree that
grows rapidly on dry
soils. This is the way
our men have to deliver
them in a condition sure
to grow. You can keep
the broad top, whereas,
if they are moved with
bare roots they would
have to be cut nearly to
a pole. These are cheap
trees when you con-
sider either their value
to you or the cost to
transplant, root-prune,
and dig with a ball of
earth.

Quercus coccinea, continued

one tree. The illustration on page 5
shows a tree that has not been
trimmed, but is in the form of a
haystack. The trees we offer liave
mostly stems from 4 to 6 feet liigh.
You can use these freely as street
trees, on the seashore for wind-
breaks combined with ])ines and
other Oaks, for boundary planta-
tion, or grove. They are not slow,
but, like the Red Oak and many
other trees, they make a second
growth in drought-time, in July or
August. The autumn color begins
on Long Island later than that of
the dogwood, Virginia creeper, pep-
peridge, and liqiiidambar; therefore,
to make an autumn landscape you
need all of them.

The foliage on ,the Scarlet Oak
and several otiiers is held through-
out the winter, giving a welcome
windbreak to your home.
Height Diain. Each

4 ft SI 50

6 ft 2 00

8 ft 4 00

10 ft. Ij.; in... 6 00
10-14 ft.2 in., age

10 yrs. 8 00
12-16 h.2^2 in ...12 00
Q. velutina. BLACK OAK. All
that has been said ol the Scarlet
Oak will apply to the Black Oak,
for they have been considered by
botanists as of the same species.
The leaves are a little larger and a
little thicker in texture, and, per-
haps, a bit darker in autumn color.
It has drought-resistant qualities
which let you plant it in dry, windy
places. The inner bark is yellow,
hence the name of the
settlers, "Quercitron."
Height Each

4 ft SI 50

6 ft 2 00

SI2

110

French

8 ft 4 00

10 ft. high, IH in. diam 6 00

10-14 ft. high, 2 in. diam., age 10 vrs 8 00

12-16 ft. high, 21 i, in. diam 12 00

Q. marilandica. BLACK JACK OAK. The most cactus
like of all the Oaks. It grows with the cactus in dry
valleys above Meadow Brook and on the beach at
Bayville and Asharoken Beach. It is the slowest-grow-
ing Oak that we know. The leaves are like green
patent leather and it looks as if a blast from the desert

Quercus marilandica, continued

would not wilt it. Do not count on them as a tree for at least
ten to fifteen years, but plant them for low foliage 6 to 10 feet
high with pilch pine, black pine, bayberrj', hazelnut, sumac,
bird's-foot violet, kill-calf. Dwarf Chestnut Oak, Scrub Oak,
cactus, huckleberry, pine barren heather, and other jjlants
we will show you. You will find the Black Jack Oak a low,
mushroom-shaped tree, solid and symmetrical, growing out
alone on the Hempstead Plains between Woodbury and Farm-
ingdale. If you will analyze the scenery there, you will see how
to make a cheerful landscape in dry, acid soils.
Height Each 10

6-8 ft S3 50 S30 00

8 ft 6 00 50 00

Q. stellata. POST OAK.. This combines the beauty, dig-
nity, and ^'enerable old age of the White Oak witli the
drought-resistant qualities of the Black Jack Oak; they
grow together. If I give a lectiire for tlie Garden City
Garden Club, I show branches of the Post, Black Jack,
Black, Scarlet, and Chestnut Oak as trees that will smile
when the horse-chestnut, silver maple, and elm are dropping
their leaves and making people feel sad, even when they do
not know why. Garden Cit\' is on the Hempstead Plains,
a treeless prairie where the soil was too dry for a forest.
Height Each 10

6 ft S3 50 S30 00

8 ft 6 00 50 00

Q. imbricaria. SHINGLE or LAUREL OAK. William
Cullen Bryant, the poet, developed one of the most beau-
tiiul landscapes on Long Island. He also had a collection
of rare trees. One of them wiis the parent of these Oaks.
We picked up the acorns in 1904. As the name indicates,
the leaf is like the laurel, not lobcd like the other trees. If
you want a tree, an avenue, or entrance court that is good,
dillerent, and beautiful, consider these trees. Laurel Oak
is native in the Alleghany Mountains. It will make a big,
ovate tree, similar to the Pin Oak but with heavier foliage.
Height Diam. Each

12-14 ft, 21.^ in S12 00

16-18 ft. 31 ., in 20 00

16-18 ft. 4 in 35 00

iiii'ii f —Miwim iMiiiii m liiiii wiiniii II

Shingle or Laurel Oak at the entrance of Maxwelton, Red Spring Point, Glen Cove. If you are interested in good trees, good
landscapes, and good gardens, we shall be glad to introduce you

HICKS A^V/RSERIES

SHADE TREES

Quercus palustris — -Pin Oak.
Nineteen years ago we started
Oak trees and they have been kept in the
best possible condition for transplanting for
you. The quality lias been approved by such estates as that of Mrs.
H. McKay Twombley, Morristown, N. J., where the best is always used.
Seventeen trucks-loads of seven each were planted in the fall of 1921.

As a single shade tree, or better, two or five as a group, feathered
down with Scarlet Oak, Black Oak, and White Oak, it will make the
best possible landscape cornposition for many situations. For a pleached
alley, similar to the Hornbeams on page 3, these Pin Oaks would show
a new and startling achievement, for they have small, close foliage that
will make an even-textured wall of green.

Quercus palustris. PIN OAK. When you make up your Oak
grove, you are not limited in size, for here are trees up to
50 feet high and fifty years old. Pin Oak is, in shape, like
tlie Linden, an ellipse. It may lack the gravity-defj'ing
arms of the other Oaks, but it makes it up in gracefulness.
The lower branches hang downward, and not until old age
is this character lost. Then it assumes the shape of
other Oaks, with wide-spreading, upward-growing branches.
In other words the slender, straight-hanging branches are
a juvenile character by which you can
recognize the Pin Oak. By the way,
you will enjoy developing the ability
to recognize trees and read soil and
geological conditions at a distance.
The Pin Oaks that we ofler are 15
'jf'^fS^P*^' ^^ ^^ ^^^^ high, big, broad specimens

^^iJliWilfc/r" tEiat you can use as single trees by

the house; as a grove at either end of
the house, as described under Norway
maple; as a forecourt, as illustrated
under linden; as a street tree that
i will make your place the most notable
in tiie comnmnity; as a memorial
tree, or for planting in the city park or
playgroimd. They will give the most
beauty and shade for the money.

Height Dinm. Each 10

18-20 ft. 4J4 in . . .$35 00 S300 00

18-20 ft. 5 in 60 00

20 26 ft. 6 in 75 00

25-28 ft. 7 in 100 00

26-28 ft. 8-9 in, ...150 00

Quercus prinus. CHESTNUT OAK, Here is a tree that will
gro\y fast on dry ground. It is native on the Rockaway
Peninsula, a geological formation of flat glass marbles, where
old gardeners say you need a shower of rain and a shower of
manure every other night. It is also native on the graved
slopes about Hempstead Harbor, Oyster Bay, and Cold
Spring Harbor. On such situations there may be a layer of 4
inchesof sandy yellow loam and brown peat under the laurel
bushes, but the Chestnut Oak will grow vigorously and bear
a heavy crop of big, almost edible acorns. It will make a
broiid, venerable tree as shown by a pair of them on the
Piping Rock property, west of the residence of Mr. Charles
Stone. It is tipped with new growth in a drought when other
trees are turning yellow and wilted. You will find also that
it is growing as fast or faster than they are. You should
take the opportunity to plant them in quantity for street,
avenue, lawn, seashore, and hilltop. They should be exten-
sively used on the Hempstead Plains and in establishing
shady groves on Long Beach, Asharoken Beach, Shinnecock
Hills, Long Branch, and on thin rocky soils, as in West-
chester County and on the Palisades.

Height Diani. Each 10

10 ft. 11^ in S6 00 S50 00

12-14 ft. 21^ in., 10 yrs. old 15 00 125 00

14-16 ft. 3 in 25 00

16-20 ft. 33^.1-4 in 40 00

Q. rubra. RED OAK. A big, broad, dignified tree, like a
clean-limbed athlete. It is native on tlic lower slopes of the
hills, and the rich, moist soils, but does well on drier soils,
as exemplified by the magnificent avenue we ])lantod in
1895 in the Mineola Fair Grounds, where other trees, sup-
posed to be of quicker growth, as silver maples, have died
from drought.

Height Diam. Each 10 100

8ft. l^in .....S3 00 S25 00 S200 00

10 ft. 2 in 4 00 35 00 300 00

12 ft. 2 in 7 00 65 00

16-20 ft. 4 in 30 00

18-20 ft. 5 in 65 00

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The best way io gei sliade is to look over tiu- thousands of time-
saving trees as shown in the aeroplane picture page 1 1 and have them
delivered on a Hicks tree-mover. The trees are grown on soil that pro-
duces an abundance of small fibrous feeding-roots. They were trans-
planted and root-pruned to further increase the fibrous feeding-roots.
For the majority of your tree needs, the most cubic yards of healthy
foliage can be secured from Hicks Nurseries. Unit price per tree,
regardless of roots, may be the most e.xpensive way, measured in
money or time, or both. You owe yourself, and those who will enjoy
your landscape now and in the future, a checkup on the above statement.

Red Oak. A rapid-
growing tree. Foliage
turns a deep red in
the autumn.

DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, City of New York

J. F. ScHAPERKOTTER, Esq., Pliiladclphia, Pa.

Dear Sir: Your letter of inquiry, addressed to the Park Commissioner of tills city, has been referred to me for re-
ply. It gives me great pleasure to answer your letter and recommend Isaac Hicks i.*i Son, Westbury, L. I. Not that
1 am interested in his nursery any more than any other, but it is my policy to give credit where credit is due.

We received large trees from Mr. Hicks' nursery this spring, and planted them in Ccntnil Park and on Riverside Drive,
and did not lose one of these trees so that I feel it is my duty to praise tliis firm for the careful way 'n which they
delivered the trees to us, which is the great secret of the establishmciit of a successful growth. We have many other
trees from other nurseries that have done well, but there has been some loss.

Trusting that the above information will answer your requirements, I am, Weslev B. Leach, Forester,

W E S T B V/ R Y, LO M G ISLA N Dl^M

SHADE TREES

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Small-leaved Lindens, Spirea Van Houttei, and Privet hedge around an entrance court at Hewlett Bay, Long Island. With quantities of
trees like this to select from, is it any wonder that Long Island landscapes are beautiful without waiting .■■

Tilia • LINDEN ^^^^ ^° transplant in full^ leaf, so you will only have to

J want Lindens to have Lindens, even if yon tliink you

There are two types of beauty, the picturesque and 1^^^,^, forgotten to order tliem in the usual season.

the beautilul. It may be difricult to define the pictur- Whether you come in winter, spring, or summer, you

csquc as it shows struggle, dead branches, wind-blown ^^.jjj ^^^j^y looking over the Lindens and picking out the

tops, Ivungry roots reaching out to chng on rocks or gj^^^ ^^^^ shajies to meet your conditions. You will

wrest moisture Irom dry soil. The beautilul shows iuil, ^^^ j^^^.^ ^^ ^^-j,j.,.y ^y>^^^ matching tliem up as we ha^'e

rounded outlines of peace and plenty. The Linden ti.|„^j^-(ca them almost as uniformly as if done by a

typifies tlie latter. The outline is always symmetrical, turning-lathe.

The elHpsc is a curve of beauty, and no tree has such a " , cAwc-r* riiDnDc aw t iwnpw

.1 ' ii- t^- 1 +r , „^%^T,„ T Ir.^^,^ WJ^ Uoxrp Tilia cordata. SMALL-LEAVED EUROPEAN LINDEN.

smooth, e Ihptica outhne as the Linden. We have ^j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^,. ^[^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ beautiful, even in

searched the world over for Lindens which keep dark, winter. Like most small-leaved trees, the twigs are so
rich green foliage in this region. You will frequently numerous and line as to make a solid screen in the winter-
see Lindens of sad, yellow color in dry summers, but time; that is you can plant a boundary of these trees to
oi-v. i^wi^^i J "' > J -Ti ■ shut oil the street and tliej' will have some value as a winter
they are not from this nursery. Ihe two species we screen. This tree delights the owner because it is more
are offering you come from eastern Europe where tlie symmetrical, darker green, and more dense than our average
climate is variable, like ours. Some of those of western native tree. All these seem to be pleasing qualities, especially
r- j^i r> 1 T I T ■ I I « -,^t- nf to the city man when he iirst comes in the countrv, tor he
Europe, as the Broad-leaved Lindens, dtop most of ^^j,^ ^^ ,^;^ ^^^.^^ satisfaction with these, the Norway maple
their foliage in a dry summer. Wc feel certain we have ^nd the English beech. The beauty of it is that he continues
the best Lindens — the best tops, the best trunks, and to be satisfied. The trees we offer are available in quantity
the best roots. They are also the most time-saN-ing. ^°^ street planting Others are low-branched, having short
^ , . ivy>ju^.j. J _ o trunks 4 to 5 teet high, with branches that will soon hang
Looking through our collection of photographs, we lind ^^ ^^^^ ground, making big bee-hived shade trees as shown
many of Lindens that we have planted, big and little, on this page. One ofthe largest orders we had was to surround
decoratino- the finest estates on Long Island and New a large formal garden with 122 trees. They were to arch a
■. '^ path, the tops merging as one great tree, but there would
Jeisey. be underneath a cool secluded walk. These trees were
Lindens can be used as follows: twenty-five years old and every one lived.

1 c;tr*"pr trf>f> Height Diam. Each 10 100

2 Avenue 8 ft S2 00 §17 50 SI 50 00

3 Entrance court. 10 ft. U^ in 2 75 25 00 225 00

4. Grove of shade trees on the borders of a lawn, witli low 12 ft. 2 in 3 50 30 00 250 00

branches to shut out the street, instead of hedge or shrubs. 14 ft. 2>2 m 5 00 45 00 400 00

5. Grove of shade trees flanking the house. 4 ft. 3 in. 12 00 00 00 900 00

fi c;;ntrlf. ^hade tree 16 ft. 3J4 in 20 00 180 00 1500 00

7 Memoria? tree 16 ft. 4 in 30 00 275 00 2000 00

8. Shade trees, as in Central Park, Union Square, and 16-20 ft. 5 in ' • j^ 9S.

Madison Square. lo^l r^' 7-" vr nn

9. Formal planting as on the borders of a formal garden. 10--4 It. / in /5 UU

10. Pleached alley, as shown under the Hornbeams. f. tomentosa. SILVER LINDEN. This is a more up-

11. Wall of green on either side ofthe path, with foliage standing tree than the Small-leaved Linden, that is, its
15 to 30 feet high. lower branches do not so readily hang to the ground. It is

12. Umbrella-trained trees as seen in European cities more like a sugar maple and less like a pin oak. The leaves
where they wish shade for the sidewalk and yet a view over. ^j.^ jggp green above and silvery white beneath, so that

„ , . , , , I J i they reflect light.

Our Lindens have been root-pruned and trans- Height Dlam. Each 10

planted so that they have a great quantitj^ of small 18-22 ft. 5 in S40 00 S350 00

fibrous feeding-roots close to the trunks. We take up 20-24 ft. 6 m 50 00 450 00

many of them with a big ball of earth so ttiat they 24-28 ft. 8 in 100 00

make a dense, vigorous growth the first year. They are 26-30 ft, 10 in 150 00

Background of evergreens planted by the Hicks Nurseries to enclose a future flowei-gaiden. These big Pjues shut ofif a drive and
protect from the north wind. They will hide a street or adjacent property for you. Bring a photo or sketch, pick out the trees and
locate them. Truck-loads, barge loads, or carloads.

Long Island is an all-the-year residence region; that means that evergreens are needed to make the landscape
beautiful and comfortable and are not to be considered non-essential or extravagant. To get tlic most from
your time, land, and investment requires tlie evergreens that are offered here. There are special ad\antagcs to
you in these evergreens that are worth taking your time to investigate.

1. They fit your soil.

2. They fit your climate.

3. They fit your degree of exposure to wind
and drought.

Abies concolor, or White Fir. Use it for the hardiest
and best blue evergreen

4. They are prepared to transplant successfully.

5. They are moved with big balls of earth.

6. They are guaranteed to grow satisfactorily.

7. They do grow satisfactorily, and there is no painful and
ugly convalescence: they are beautiful from the start.

8. There are many new and better varieties not heretofore
available.

9. They save you five to twenty-five years' waiting.

Men enjoy evergreens; women enjoy flowers. Both can come
here and pick out what they want or order it from the catalogue
and arrange a flower-garden with an evergreen background.

How to decide where to plant evergreens: Think of where
you wish to shut off the cold wind or a disagreeable view or to
plant for beauty.

How high and how wide should the group be? Two or three
rows, or its equi^'alent in a group, are better than a single row,
for there are more layers of foliage to stop the wind or line of
sight. Ask your landscape architect for advice or make your
o\\n selection and design. When the trees arrive, set them on
the ground, shift them around until thcj^ accomplish your
purpose, then plant. The convenience of the abo^•c plan is that
evergreens show just what they are; by getting the larger sizes
you get your results immediately. Perhaps when your place \\as
planted, evergreens were sparingly used because, by the methods
then in vogue, they were risky to transplant.

It is now the custom to thin out ]Dlantations of shrubs
and add evergreens. It takes courage to renew a wardrobe, inte-
rior, or landscape. Renewing interiors and landscape is not
quite as necessary as wardrobes, but you can have the most iun
with a landscape and have the most certainty that what you
are doing will last. Many landscapes were planted with the
idea that summer bloom was the main thing. Shrubs were
abundant and cheap and it was customary to make a wide

igWW,lv.VyESTBVyRY, LOMG ISLAMD^i^^^^

EVERGREEN TREES

Mu'gho White Bliie Austrian Barberry

Pine Fir Spruce Pine

View on the lawn of Mr, J. H. Ottley, Glen Cove. This group of evergreens screens the road, greenhouse, and vegetable-garden.
Through the group there is a path to the garden. You or your landscape architect can design a group equally time-saving by using large trees
from the Hicks Nurseries. It makes no difierence where you are or what time of the year you are ready, or if it is for your summer place
at Southampton or Berkshire Hills, or as far away as Baltunore, Louisville, Chicago, our trees will fit the climate and arrive safely. They are
guaranteed to grow satisfactorily. To have such trees available is as convenient as modern building materials in steel, granite, reinforced
concrete, or terra cotta. The waiting and uncertainty are reduced to a minimum.

border of them. That is the easiest place to put the evergreens and the most fa^^orabIe because tlie shrubs help
protect them from the wind. Take out shrubs to make an area 8 to 12 feet wide and put in a pine, hemlock, or
ijr. You may have areas tiiat will be more beautiful and
more economical with pine, baybcrry, cedar and oak.

New and rare evergreens are one of the specialties
of this nursery. The limit of this catalogue forbids pub-
lishing them, but you are invited to send for samples
or come here any time to study them, pick branches,
and enjoy them as you would in a museum.

Some years we shipped sixty carloads of these large
evergreens and other trees. People do not realize that
this is the best waj'' to make landscape. It is more
beautiful, gives almost immediate effects, and is the
least wasteful in time and money. You can spare
the tinie of your garden staff for three or four days ^
to unload and plant a carload. Another advantage
is that the time of the year is of no importance.
Wc are jalanting with equal success every week
in the year, because the trees are root-pruned, have an
abundance of feeding-roots in the big balls of earth
with wliich they are shipped, clamped tight with canvas
and platforms of our invention.

Abies cephalonica. CEPHALONIAN FIR. Dense, bee-
hive shaped trees covered with dark green foliage. It
grows slowly, therefore can be used in small areas and to
feather down groups of tall trees. To prove their slow
growth, these trees, 6 feet high, are from seeds collected in.
the Chas. A. Dana Arboretum in 1904. The species comes
from the island of Ceplialonica, on the west coast of Greece.

Height Each 10

2 ft S5 00 S40 00

5 ft 15 00

Winter bouquet of Leucothoe, Laurel, and Barberry. You can make
up many beautiful combinations with Yew, Fir, Holly, Japanese
Spurge, Cotoneaster, Bearberry- and Christmas Berry and teach your
friends winter gardening.

MV/RSERIES

EVERGREEN TREES

Abies concolor. WHITE FIR.

From tFie mountains of- Colo-
nido. This species is perfectly
hardy because it is accustonied
to a drier summer, colder wind,
and brigiiter sun than we iiave
here. Prof. C. S. Sargent, Direc-
tor of the Arnold Arboretum,
recommended this and the Nikko
as the two best Firs for New
England, therefore we started
several pounds of seed. Like the
Colorado bkie spruce, it is blue
and, for tiiat reason, well fitted
as an individual blue specimen or
to lighten up a background of
darker evergreens. A carload or
truck-load of these larger trees
can be the most substantial, con-
spicuous, and beautiful part of
your landscape, and you will feel
fortunate that you have dis-
covered them. They have ])een
considered difficult to trans-
plant, but you will see why these
are easy to transplant when you
read the labels, "Transplanted in
June, 1920."

Prices are low, when you con-
sider the number of cubic feet of
good foliage that you get and the
years you save. These larger
trees are now up above the line of
sight and they will make an

wmcly

S22 50

35 00

45 00

efficient

situation.

Height Each

2-3 ft S2 50

3-4 ft 4 00

4-3 ft 5 00

5-6 ft 10 00

6-8 ft 20 00

8-10 fi 30 00

10-12 ft 40 00

. homolepis (brachyphylla)

NIKKO FIR. From the Nikko

Mountains in Japan. This tree

likes our climate better than its

own relative, the Balsam Fir.

The Balsam Fir is the best

Christmas tree and a favorite for

balsam pillows, but it does not

like our summer climate. The Nikko Fir is a tall, rapid-
growing tree with dark green foliage, silver underneath. The

branches are wide enough apart to hang Christmas decora-
tions on. It will stand
alone in a windy situa-
tion, therefore we sug-
gest it as a permanent
community Christmas
tree. You can plant it
with tlie assurance that
It will keep in good con-
dition for many years,
but evergreen trees all
like to be in the shelter
of their fellows and like
to be well fed with a
mulch of decaying leaves.
Tlie community Christ-
mas tree will be thankful
for a drink twice a month
during the summer.
These taller specimens
will be a delight as part
of your evergreen grove.
, They are tall enough to
screen the first stor^' of
a building. When mi.ved
with pine and hemlock
they inake a beautiful
combination of varying
tones of color. Manj' of
our customers, in mak-
ing groves as shelter for
a seat or bird-bath or the
backing of a flower-gar-
den, find this species one
of the most beautiful.

Meyer's Juniper. It takes years of work and willingness
to be known as an evergreen "cranli," but we have arrived.
Here is a new variety that has no equai in character and
color. You can find room for some in front of shrubs, out
on a wind-swept lull, or in your "curiosity shop" where
you keep candidates for a permanent location. See page 14.

Abies homolepis, continued

For your family Christmas
ti;ee, select a specimen 5 to 8 feet
high, have it delivered in Decem-
ber, and plant it after Christmas.
If you are afraid the ground will
freeze, mulch with 6 inches of
straw or leaves. Many of our
customers add a new tree every
j'ear. We have adopted this plan
to teach winter planting. Several
other species are available for
Christmas trees — Japanese yew,
hemlock, and Douglas spruce.
Height Each 10

3-4 ft S6 00 S50 00

4-5 ft 8 00 70 00

5-6 ft 10 00 90 00

6-8 ft 15 00 125 00

8-10 ft 40 00 350 00

10-12 ft 50 00

12-14 ft 75 00

14 ft 100 00

16 ft 150 00

CEDAR. See JuniperuB.

(jnamaecyparis

RETINISPORA

JAPANESE CYPRESS

There are two Japanese
species used here but of these
there are forty varieties de-
scribed. The Japanese have a
faculty for making small gar-
dens, for training plants to
express their ideas, and for
discovering and propagating
varieties that add beauty to
their gardens. We may not
understand their ideas, but we
can use the same material to
express our ideas, and we can
have small gardens with small
plants that staj^ small. The
Hicks Nurseries are more
anxious to help on small gardens than in any other
department of landscape gardening. We are working up
a long list of dwarf or low-growing evergreens that will
make gardening a continuous joy on small areas. You
can come any time of the year and study and take the
plants with you. Some of our little evergreens maj'- be
frozen fast in the ^\■inter, and it may not be quite as
practicable to mo\'e them as the large ones, but you ha.ve
the fun of a trip to the nursery and know that your
little plant will be ready for you in the spring.

A tubbed Fir makes a fine Christmas
tree. Hundreds are planted after the
holidays.

Berries and foliage of Japanese Yew

gl^WES TBV/RY, LOMG ISLA MD/jM

EVERGREEN TREES

Cham^cvparis obtusa. OBTUSE-LEAVED RETINISPORA, or OBTUSE-LEAVED JAPA-
NESE CYPRESS. Tliis is a dark green tree willi graceful, featliery sprays. In its native home
it is a valuable timber tree, probably closely resembling its relative, the coast white cedar which
grows in the swamps of Long Island. In ornamental plantings it is usual y a small, bushy
free 10 to 15 feet high. It is best to keep it pinched back. Neither tins nor the next species like
to lift up their heads above the shelter of other evergreens. 2 ft. high, i.4 each. b35 for 10.

C. obtusa gracilis nana. DWARF RETINISPORA. A dwarf form with dark
green foliage and little, shell-like sprays. For house loundalions, or in an evergreen
Sarden and to feather down groups of tall evergreens. 1-2 ft. high b5 each

C. obtusa magnifica. For a hedge to separate one division of the garden Irom another,
and yet not obstruct the view, this is suitable, although it may seem
almost too choice to use in quantity. Have you a steep slope that needs
to be held up with stumps and stones, and which you wish to decorate
with little plants that will make cushions which will nestle to the stones
as evergreens at timber-line? You can make such a place of your own
in design and construction. After it is established you will find it easier
to maintain than a steep slope of grass. This and the last are two ol
the many plants you can use for such purposes, and, like the Japa-
nese you can nip' them back and train them to your own ideas.

^^^^ slio

2-2 1-^ ft , ^50

C. pisifera plumosa. GREEN RETINISPORA, or GREEN JAPA-
NESE CYPRESS. The above Retinisporas or Japanese Cypresses all
have dark green foliage, the shade of the firs. Relinispora ptsijem and
its varieties have light green, blue, or golden yellow foliage, and are
more ostrich-plume-like, or feathery, and include the varieties most
commonly seen because they are easy to propagate. In fact, some
may say they are too commonly seen or too exclusively used. Fre-
quently we see a foundation planting of the green, blue, and yellow
varieties of this species. The contrast is too violent and the mixture
not in good taste — too much like the negro woman who said, '^one
of your new hifalutin' colors for me, just plain red and yaller." These
Retinisporas should be used as a foil or contrast to larger masses ol
dark green. Rctinispora pisijera plumosa. or Pea-lruited Japanese
Cypress, will make a feathery green pyramid, 3 to 15 feet high. In
summer it has a pleasing shade of light green; in winter it changes to a
dull vellow-green similar to the arborvita;. I-U2 ft. high, S2.50 each,
S20 for 10.

A Nikko Fir at Hicks Nurseries. Raise a fund for your
community Christmas tree and select it here. It is
guaranteed.

Chameecyparis pisifera plumosa aurea. GOLDEN RETINISPORA,
or GOLDEN JAPANESE CYPRESS. Just a dash of cheerfulness in
tiie bright golden yellow tips of the branches. Use it as mentioned
above, with a dark green background, but do not make your whole
plantation of it, as that is like all icing and no cake. To help your
pSants keep their highest beauty, nip them back and the new growth
will be brighter. Do not clip them to a hard line. 1 ft. high, 61.25
each, SIO for 10.
C. pisifera squarrosa. BLUE RETINISPORA, or BLUE JAPANESE
CYPRESS. In summer, this is the best blue evergreen. Its fleecy,
ostrich-plume-like foliage is graceful and when tipped with dew there
is none prettier. In winter the foliage on the side most exposed to the
sun becomes a little dull, but the shaded side is as bright as ever
Therefore, arrange to show olf the shaded side of the plant and
back it up with darker greens for contrast. We have a large
quantity of beautiful little plants, as broad
as they are high,olTered at low rates. They
are easy to transplant at any season of the
year, so do not hesitate to load up your car
and have the fun of making or remaking
vour landscape. These are suitable for a
low hedge, separating, perhaps, the rose-
garden from the perennial border, border-
ing a walk, filling window boxes, adding
to your bird sanctuary, or allowed to
grow naturally in a grove of coast
white cedar,
Hciglic Each

1ft S2 00

2 ft 3 00

FIR. See Abies.
HEMLOCK. SeeTsuga.

Retinispora squarrosa, or Blue Japanese Cypress, retains
its juvenile leaves and is a variation from the green to a
blue color. Evergreens run the scale of beauty from the
delicacy of the fern to the strength of the oaks. We have
many kinds here — some as little cuttings and grafts just
started, and next winter will have a lot of little plants
stored so you can take them home any time and plant all
winter where mulch keeps out the frost.

Planting the community Christmas tree at Jackson
Heights Apartments, A Salvation Army officer says that
Jackson Heights have more community spirit than other
apartments.

HICKS AIVRSERIES

TREES

iifW Juniperus litoralis (conferta). SHORE

A "-.l.yjP'^ JUNIPER. A species creeping alotiL;

^ 'A'tla.S t he j^roiincl, sending up feathery foliage

:ihoin 8 inches high. Used in Japan fur

^^— ^^^^^^^^py^HP- / '^^^M^^^wT^^^ iiolding sand-dunes. 1 ft. iiigh, S1.50 ea.

■.K/ /^ — ^kc-r<B^^^K>i. 'J j^' J^^^H J. Pfitzeriana. A plumy, spreading

bush soon becoming 7 feet iiigh and
equally broad. 1 1^ ft. high, S3.5'0 each.

J. squamata Meyeri. MEYER'S

JUNIPER. Here is your opportunity
to be the first to introduce a new and

beautiful plant. Frank Meyer, Agri-

^^-'ijf-. ""' cultural Explorer, United States De-

partment of Agricultiare, sent us two
plants which had been grafted in
^\. China. You can see them in our nur-

sery, wiiere they have been cut so
closely for grafting they look like Ben-
jamin West's cat which supplied the
young artist with paint-brushes. It
has been without a name until the fast
issue of the Bulletin of the Arnold
Arboretum. See color illustration on
page 12. The printer said it is
didicult to illustrate true to color be-
cause, looking at a branch one way it is
green, another way it is blue, and
.{•yi ^^WR -gW^^^^^^B^i^^^^^W^^B^^^M*.'!. • ■• ^"grg anotiier way it shows a tinge of red.

* ^ ^l ' y^^w can use it as a single specimen

^^<^ {)lHI^H^^9HI^H^^^HB^^^H^^H^^^^HfeH&ttJ ^*'^ ^'^ ^''^ '^'^> better, against

Juniper border at Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; on the right is Common Juniper: background of dark green, as it is as

on the left. Creeping Juniper; against the sky, White Pine conspicuous as any blue evergreen. It

is sniall and slow enough to (ill a niche

TunitierUS * JUNIPER in your garden of dwarf evergreens. Give it tinie and it will

, , , "^ form a worthy part of your pinetuni together with the other

The Juniper familj^ is tj'pified by tiie Red Cedar, a Junipers, yews, hemlocks, and hrs. It grows about 8 inches

tall green column along fence-rows and abandoned ^ yf'Yv r- i. ■ u ■ i. ^ .

fields, and by the various low Junipers typified by the ^''^f. SS^oO | 2 ft' sl'ob

common Juniper, saucer-shaped green mounds in tiie j. virginiana. RED CEDAR. The familiar Cedar of Long

l^astures of New England. The Junipers do not have Island, quickly covering abandoned fields and, with holly,

cones but green berries from which gin is made. The catbriar, and beach plum, making a tangled thicket between

■v>U;nc c-'^n-.t n\\ -...l^i-^,. ,..U„,. +1 1 J t lie sand-du ucs. You can use them lor tall screens, but pines

obH^S Stay all Wtntei \Uiere there are enough cedar ^^^ ,^^^^^^ ^^,^^j „^^^^ economical because they are broader

berries, and other insectivorous birds feed on them in and denser than Cedars. To keep the cedars in best condi-

the hungry time ^vhcn they first come north and there tion, some gardeners give them a shower-bath in the late

are no aneleworms afternoon or evening and during the dry time. Nipping them

^i "^ \ ^ I ' T II I 1 back will also aid in making a dense growth.

1 ou na\e not had much chance to use or know the Height Eacli Height Each

varied beauties of the Juniper familj'-; ^ye in^^ite you to 3 ft S3 00 | 8 ft SI 5 00

call and get acquainted. You will have to use a little i ^^ %^\ 19 "^n v • ^?- ^^

persistence,fortherearenotenoughofthenewonestoput Vi^V ' W: .WV .: .' . 6 00 | ?ion." ^"'' """" '"''''
in tiie show-window or the catalogue.

Juniperus communis. COMMON JUNIPER. Two years p- , SIPTJTTPF

ago, in June, we transplanted about an acre of these. They IrlCea * pr^rvO V_jij

will come up with good balls of fibrous roots, like in the Spruces are sisiry-topped evergreens similar to the

picture, and you can use them for the bulk of your low r -rr W^ ^ *.i i. ■ • ^i ..!

Juniper planting because they are native. They are unusual, ™^- ^ ^^Y ^"^^ native tO the mountains ill the north

beautiful, and economical. You can achieve some unique where thcy have short, moist Summers. ^^^hiIe they are

landscape features by covering a sandy biink with these and young they like it here. One lady, who Is an exiJClt in

Scotch heather or you can plant them on sand-dunes, mixed „„ ,.,|pp (\e<^vx\ stIH "The.

with bayberry, beach plum, oak, and pine, for the salt spray S'^"^*^" Oesign, saiO, 1 ne,

will only clip them olf and make a dense, cushiony carpet. bpruces do not belong or

You can plant them between vour specimens of pines, harmonize Oil Long Island; v^^ "^ftf^ ^ jiT

cedars, and otlier evergreens, especially on the sunny side, ^1^^^ belong tO the llioun-

with yew, leucothoc, and azalea on the shady side. You + " Tl ^ i

have, perhaps, dreamed and hoped for a landscape that was tauis. 1 his emphasizes ail

beautiful without expensive, fussy maintenance. We have extreme vicw but it is justi-

plants and ideas, and we know where to show you good ficd \\hcn we consider the

examples so that you may be convinced before you start land<;rnnpq miHf nvrr hv

that our guarantee means what it says— that our plants l^MSCapes lliaae O^^l DJ

grow satisfactorily. Our greatest fun and greatest value to tOO tree planting ot iMor-

you is in fitting plants to your environment, so they will "be way Spruce Seventy years

happ, ever after." ^^^^^ ^^ ^ -^^ Loiig Island farm-

1 ft SI 00 S8 00 yards which are now hag-

U- it 2 50 20 00 gard and sad. Groves of

J. communis suecica. SWEDISH JUNIPER. A little white or pitcii pine would

exclamation point 4 feet high and I foot in diameter. It is ^^w shfuv fl vpnpnhip n^p-

almost as dense and cylindrical as a stove-pipe. 1^ ft higb, ? T j ? cneiaDle, USe-

S2 each, SI 7.50 for 10. it-il. and happy old age.

J. horizontalis. CREEPING JUNIPER. A creeping Juni- Even if the Spruces are

per wliich you will see hugging the rocks just above the surf j^q^ 100 per cent happy in

on the coast of Maine, making a mossy, cushionv growth, i • t i i i t • • ,-1

suggesting its use. to hang over.the stones .Ojich border the their old age they are beau- „ Jrju'^|^'e^ Zdy ""r carS

path or hold up a bank. 10-12 inch spread, i.1. 50. tllul and interesting when home in your car.

LONG IS LAN DA

EVERGREEN TREES

young. Their dense foliage checks the wind; they
make good bird sanctuaries, for the birds prefer
them for roosts in cold weather and for nesting-places
in summer.

Picea Omorika. SERVIAN SPRUCE. Another European
variety ^vl^icll shows that evergreens from continental cli-
mates like it here. Ti>e trees are narrow ijvraniicis, like the
Oriental spruce, with light green foliage touched with silver
underneath. 6-8 ft. high, S20 each.
P. orientalis. ORIENTAL SPRUCE. This will make a
tall, narrow column 15 feet high and 7 feet broad, denser
and darker than any other tree. It is native to the moun-
tains of Asia Minor, and, like the Cephalonian fir, seeius to
like it here. You can use it in narrow evergreen plantations
where some of the broader trees will too quickly overcrowd
the situation or need too much pruning. You will be inter-
ested to know that it keeijs its foliage for seven years, there-
fore, it is dense in the center, not scraggiy.
Height Each 10

4-5 ft rS8 00 S70 00

5-6 ft.'," iOyrs. old 10 00 90 00

P. pungens glauca. COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE. We

iiave some unusually handsome speciiuens of this well-
known tree and as many people like them as single speci-
mens, these will qualify for the most exacting, 8-9 ft. high,
S40 each, S350 for 10.

Picea pungens Kosteri. KOSTER'S COLORADO BLUE

SPRUCE. You will think you are fortunate in fintling
such big, handsome plants and also in learning they have
been recently transplanted and root-pruned. They will be
delivered to you with big balls of cartii, to make them sure
to grow. You can here get a carload or truck-load of pines,
hemlocks, firs and spruces, and touch them ofl' with a con-
trast of these tall blue trees in a way to make your garden
the most beautiful setting for your home and your social
life. You can do as one Ohio man did when he said, "I had
a carload from you several years ago. They did so much
better than other trees that I have brought my landscape
architect from Chicago to pick out another carload."

Height E.ich

8-10 ft S50 00

10-12 ft 75 00

Height Each

12-15 ft SlOO 00

?sC?' -' ~ For a salt-spray-swept sand-dune, plant Jack
Pine, Austrian Pine, Japanese Black Pine, Pitch Pine,
_. Scotch Pine, Oaks, Bayberry, Privet, and several other

tnick-leaved plants. Plant them close together and low toward the sea.

mus

PINE

The Pine family will supply the best evergreens in your landscape in this region, whether you try to prevent
it or not. This is a Pine country. For instance, in Garden City, where many species of evergreens were planted
fifty years ago, the White Pines remain and others have disappeared. As Prof. Sargent, Director of the Arnold
Arboretum, said, in a description of the Hunnewell Arboretum at Welleslcy, Mass., "It is valuable for what is
not there." That is, the species that are not adapted have disappeared. The Pines will shelter you in your old
age, even if you ])lant mostly other species. You Iiad better plant the right thing when you are young and have
the satisfaction of knowing you are playing the game according to the rules. Pines are not abundant in nurseries

_^ or in the landscape because they were diflicult to grow.
~" It was easier to buy Norway spruces from Europe, arbor-
vita^s pulled in the swamps of the North, or retinisporas
grown from cuttings, than to watch the Pine-cones and
pick them before the seeds blew away. We were the first
nurseries in the East to grow evergreens extensively from
seed. Now the trees are ready for you, as tall as the roof.
Anotlier reason that Pines are not abundant is
because they have long, coarse roots, adapted to dry
soils, and are not easy to transplant with the bare-root
sj'Stem used for fruit trees and poplars, or by the system
of cutting around them and pulling them out and
hoping a ball would stay on. We de\eloped the system
of frequently transplanting or root-pruning them to
make them have fibrous feeding-roots close to the
center. We in^•entcd can^'as and platforms for clamping
a big ball of earth and trained men to quickly and
economically handle them. Here are the best trees of
the best species for many of your needs. You will enjoy
using these Pines. There is no risk, for they are guar-
anteed to grow satisfactorily. We will not let you have
tliem without protest unless we know they are going to
scr\'e your purpose. For instaiice, ^^"c refused to sell
White Pine for standing alone against the ocean. For
such situations tliere arc several species with thick
needles that withstand the salt air. A few truck-loads
or carloads may make more difference than any other
investment in making your place a complete home, for
a house is not a home until it is planted right.

It requires courage to take out trees or shrubs that
are not the best and put in the best. The best are
a^'aiIabIe, and there is no better time than now. Every
month is Pine-planting month at fiicks Nurseries.

Pinus cembra. SWISS STONE PINE. A miniature Pine
for the evergreen garden. It looks like a Tom Thumb Pine
for it grows 6 inches a year while the White Pine grows 2
feet. 3 ft. high, $8 each, S70 for 10.

Pinus Strobus, White Pine. You love an old White Pine, but
think that such love can only be enioyed in memory, or when you see
remnants on your trip lo the old homestead. Do you want to see a
grove of Pines from your second-story window? Here's a sample for
you to select from, and which will make your home seem as if it were
off in the country.

HICKS AIV/RSERIES

EVERGREEN TREES

Pinus Banksiana (divaricata). JACK PINE. The Pine
that will stand the most dryness and tlie severest cold north
winds, for it is native on rock ridges witii an inch or two of
granite fragments, like rock salt, on Gridstone Mountain,
Bar Harbor, Maine, and the sand plains of Minnesota. It
grows very rapidly and is quite similar in form and texture
to its relative, the Pitch Pine. We are fortunate to iiave a
quantity of them, 10 to 15 feet high, wiiich have been
recently transplanted and pruned so that they immediately
make for you the best windbreak, Iiedge, or screen in the
severest position on the seashore or hill-top where we could
not recommend White Pines, hemlocks, arborvitajs, or
several other evergreens.

Height Each 10

6-8 ft SIO 00 S90 00

8-10 ft 15 00 125 00

10-12 ft 20 00 175 00

12-14 ft 25 00 225 00

P. montana Mughus. MUGHO PINE. A little button-
shaped tree, 2 to 4 feet high and twice as wide. It likes to
be out in the open in the sun, therefore use it on the south
and west sides of your foundation planting and to feather
down the sunny sides of groups of tall Austrian, Scotch,
White, and other Pines. You can enhance its true beauty
by shearing or better by just nipping off, in early summer,
the tips of the longest growth.
Height Each 10

1 ft S3 00 S25 00

11^ ft 4 00 35 00

Pinus nigra austriaca. AUSTRIAN PINE. As you will see
from the picture, you can pick out great, big, broad-shoul-
dered trees that will immediately shut out the street. A
leading authority on gardening has said, "The most beau-
tiful llower-garden can be made just back of the surf pro-
vided there is a windbreak." For the gardens of Newport,
East Hampton, Southampton and West Hampton, Long
Beiich, Long Branch, Asharoken Beach, and similar situa-
tions on the north shore of Long Island Sound, these are
just right. You can plant them this spring and have the
garden all ready for the garden party next summer. Without
the windbreak the garclen may fail. City conditions of smoke
and dry air seem to be withstood by the Austrian Pine.
Height Each 10

7-10 ft. . . S25 00 S200 00

10-12 ft 45 00 400 00

P. parviflora. JAPANESE WHITE PINE. A miniature
White Pine suited to small gardens because when 8 feet
high it has the picturesque outlines of the White Pine or
Cedar of Lebanon fifty years old. 7-8 ft. high, S25 each.

P. resinosa. RED PINE. This is as valuable as the White
Pine. It is native from Maine and northern Massachusetts
to Minnesota. It likes the same dry, gravelly soil as the
Pitch Pine and tlie thin soil of rocky ridges like the Jack
Pine. In form it is a dense beehive-shaped tree like the
Austrian Pine, and does not spread out with horizontal
branches like the White Pine. The trunk and timber are
like the Southern Long-leaved or Yellow Pine and was used
in Maine for ship's masts and spars because of its strength.
It was so little known that a few years ago none were
offered in any American or European nursery catalogue.
We got a quantity of seed and have grown very handsome
specimens, .so now they are available as big, root-pruned,
sure-to-grow landscape material that you canordcr by the
carload. The rich, velvety, dark green foliage and the
smooth elliptical outline puts it in the class of beautiful
trees as described under linden on page 9. You can make
a low, broad wall of green 8 feet higli and 6 feet broad. In
the lee of such a grove in a north wind at 10 degrees you will
realize how it is possible for a belt of Pines to save on your
coal-bill, especially on a flat, windy place on Long Island.
HclRhi Each 10

4-5 ft S5 00 $40 on

5 6 ft 10 00

6-8 ft 20 00

An Austrian Pine next the salt meadows at Cedarhurst on the lawn of Mr. John L. Lawrence. It receives the full sweep of the salt winds
from across Long Beach. Austrian Pines, iike some people, seem to be always the same and never disturbed. Rain, wind, heat, or cold do
not change the appearance — the trees might be of green bronze. Truckloads or carloads will make the right background and windbreak for your
seaside or hill-slope garden, and will shelter your favorites that are more changeable, but none the less interesting. You will see a block of these
Pines in the nursery labeled, "Planted February, 1920" — then you will understand why they are guaranteed.

The picture on the next page shows a Norway Majjle in bloom in the garden of Mrs. Robert Bacon, Westbury, L. I.
The gardener says, "The nurse and children find this tree the coolest place in summer." The foliage seems to attract and
hold the breeze, like a canopy. You can have a cool, shaded playground like this with one, two, or three big maples, lindens
or oaks from the Hicks Nurseries. This tree and the tall cedar in the foreground were moved by the Hicks Large Tree-
moving Department a few years before. It is located west of the formal garden, and the steps to the formal garden are at
the brick pillars back of the seat. Painting by Miss Amy Cross.

This series of pictures was made to show the garden of an expert. They were used to illustrate an article by Miss
Isabelle Pendleton, Landscape Architect, in Country Lije, March, 1923.

jMyWESTBV/ RY, long \SLA NDisJd

EVERGREEN TREES

Pinus sylvestris. SCOTCH PINE. Here is where you get the most Pine for the least money,
because they grow Tast when young. Scotcii Pine makes a big, broad-shouldered tree liighly
resistant to wind or drought or' cold. Our phints are esjjecially fine because they were nipped
hack two or tliree years ago to make them broad and dense. TJie roots are even better because ^
they were moved with big balls of earth and now tliey are ready to move with still larger ■
balis. The trees that will give the most value for the money are those 3 to 5 feet liigh, because
of their rapid growth. ... . , „„ ■ tt i n i n- i

Tlie bigger Scotch Pine, 8 to 12 feet high, can be mixed in with White Pine and Hed Fine and
taken out in ten to fifteen years to allow the native and longer-lived species
more room.

Height Each 10

3- 4 ft S3 00 S25 00

8-10 ft 20 00 180 00

10-12 ft 30 00 250 00

P. Strobus. WHITE PINE. This species must have been
widely distributed on Long Island for there are remnants
at Holiis, Roslyn, Mill Neck, East Norwich, Woodbury,
Smithtown, Commack, Sag Harbor, and Hempstead.
Probably the early settlers cut it because it was the easiest
timber to work, thus killing the mother trees and the fires
killed the baby trees. The White Pine is 'the noblest ever-
green of the northeastern states and eastern Canada. As a
landscape feature, few know its full beauty, for it has been
so sparingly planted that rarely has it had an opportunity
to develop without crowding. Those who have seen the
Cedars of Lebanon in Palestine, and those brought by the
Crusaders and planted around the castles in England, say
that the White Pine has a similar beauty. To enjoy these
Pines now, rather than century-old veterans, or as a forest
tree for the future, you can now buy in the Hicks Nurseries
trees that will be your friends;.

They will do for you immediately iust what you want.
They will give you a quiet place in the country with
green all around and the blue sky overhead.

They will shut out the sight and sound of the street.
They will keejj out the cold north wind and make a
sheltered playground for your children.

Tliey will make a dark green background and wind-shelter
for your flower-garden.

They will forest the sandy hill.

They will soothe, by iheir steadfastness, when discouraged.

They will stretch their wide horizontal arms against the sky and make the
best picture for sunrise and sunset.

In planting these and other evergreens from Hicks Nurseries, you need have
no fear of failure. The progress we have made in transplanting, root-pruning,
and moving with large balls of earth, using the Hicks invention of canvas and
platform, overcomes all dilTiculties. You can use these tall pines, 10 to 30 feet
high, with the assurance that they will hold their beauty and grow as If they
Iiad never been moved. The time of the year need not ail'ect you, for it is a
simple matter to scrape away the blanket of pine needles and dig through the
thin lajer of frost in the middle of winter. Every week in the summer we are
transplanting such trees. It is the stock work in the nursery. You will see rows
of tlicm marked "Planted June, 1920," or "Planted February, 1920."

Pinus sylvestris, Scotch Pine. Cheerful, blue-green, sturdy trees,
photographed last winter; transplanted August, 1920. Want a carload
like the first one at $25? Does the street need a sturdy green wall 10
feet wide and 10 feet high? The Scotch Pines will make the screen,
or a windbreak to protect the garden and other trees. Have you a
laundry-yard or service-court to screen? Scotch Pines will give you
the most cubic yards of evergreen foliage for the investment.

100

S17 50

25 00

S200 00

50 00

450 00

75 00

700 00

125 00

Height Each

14 ft S35 00

16ft 50 00

18 ft 70 00

20 ft 100 00

22 ft 125 00

24 ft - 150 00

The up-and-coming men plant evergreens,
oaks, and beeches this way. It is sure and
economical. They develop beautiful landscapes
where they work and live.

Hciglit Each

3 ft S2 00

4 ft 3 00

5 ft 6 00

6 ft 10 00

8 ft 15 00

10 ft 20 00

12 ft 25 00

P. Thunbergii. JAPANESE BLACK PINE. On the Connecticut shore, near
Stamford, there was a sea-wall where the spray dashed over, washed away the
soil, and allowed nothing to remain but pebbles. We planted a grove of this
species, Pitch Pine, Austrian Pine, and other trees, but this is the best,
lis loliage is rich dark green, like the Red Pine, but the needle is thicker, more
like the Austrian Pine. The tree is of picturesque, irregular habit, like a Japanese
sketch.

A bare sand-dune is glaring and monotonous. One longs for the pleasure of a
garden, for flowers to pick, for a garden party. A few truck-loads of these Pines
will make possible the best kind of a garden. You will see that their economical
and eflicient ball of eartli is a good way to get top soil. After planting, all they
want is a mulch of leaves, thatch, or drift from tlie shore and water.

Hcisht Eneh

6- 8 ft SIO 00

10-12 ft 25 00

The picture on the opposite page is Father Hugo's Rose, or Rosa Humnif!, and a Lilac arch between the rose garden and
picking-garden on the grounds of Mrs. Robert Bacon, Wcsthury, L. I. Thanks to intre])id missionaries and explorers, beauty
and fruit from the ends of the earth are available. Rosa Hugonis came to America from the Chinese wilds directly through
Kew Gardens, in London, but it bears the name of the intrepid priest who saw it in the Asian wilds, and who believed its
beauty should be extended to the western world. It is a superb shrub.

Father Hugo's Rose blooms earlier than any other. It is a big, vigorous bush, never troubled by winter-killing, insects
or fungi, therefore, use it in your shrubbery as freely as Spirea or Golden Bcli. Hicks Nurseries are fortunate to have
available large plants 3 feet high and 3 feet broad. Some will be in boxes, so you can buy them in bloom or later. The Lilacs
are old bushes which we moved a few years ago. Painting by Miss Amy Cross.

HICKS AIVRSERIES

EVERGREEN TREES

Pseudotsuga (Picea) Douglasii. DOUGLAS SPRUCE. The Colo-
rado form we have raised from seeds supplied by the United States
Forest Service, and tiiey are perfectly hardy, whereas tiie Pacific Coast
form may grow 25 feet Iiigli and kill to the ground. The foliage is
light blue-green, like otfier Colorado evergreens.

We have pushed it as a Christmas tree, not for profit but for two
other purposes: (1) To teach winter planting and (2) to introduce a
tree better than the sad Norway Spruce. The plants we offer are 12
feet and upward and are just right for a carload or truck-load shipment
to wall a garden, shut olf the street, decorate a hillside, or plant as a
conimunitj' Christmas tree as described on page 13,

Height Each

7 ft S20 00

8 ft 25 00

12-14 ft 40 00

S175 GO
200 00

axus

Htight Each

14-16 ft.. S60 00

16-18 ft 75 00

YEW

Here is your opportunity to get the best small or dcnse-
p:ro\ving evergreen. Its introduction is mentioned in "The
Romance of our Trees" by Ernest M/ Wilson, Assistant Director
of Arnold Arboretum, as follows: "The Japanese Yew was
introduced into America in 1862 by Dr. George R. Hall, who
gave it to Parsons and Company, nurserymen, Flushhtg, N. Y."
Probably some of the original ]jlants were planted in the Dana
Arboretum, Glen Cove, From the seed-bearing plant there wc
collected seed in 1902 from wliich our larger plants are grown,
Taxus cuspidata. JAPANESE YEW. Soon makes a dense, dark green
jjyramid about 10 feet higli and 8 feet broad, fitting it for the high
points in foundation plant-
ings, for small evergreen
gardens, boundary planting
on narrow areas, or feather-
ing down tall groups of
trees. They can be |)lanted
as permanent trees with
tein]30rary pines and firs
between. Of course, they
get larger than the size
mentioned; in Japan it
grows 40 to 60 feet tall.
For formal effects they
are excellent because wiien
clipped tiiey become dense
and solid, and liiere is no
risk of their becoming win-
ter-killed, as with box-
wood, English yew or Irish
juniper. We have clipiJcd a
number of them to e.\acti\
match. You can use them
for formal planting, to sub-
stitute plants tliat ma\
have become unsatisfac-
tory. It has been tiie cus-
tom to mark the corners
and paths of formal gardens

Taxus baccata repandens. The soft, billowy outlines of tlie Spreading
Yew are not equaled or approached by any other plant. For a founda-
tion planting it gives an atmospliere of dignity and repose.

Taxus cuspidata, fiat form, and Pachysaiidra

Taxus cuspidata, Jiijianese Yew, is a beautiful ever-
green, thoroughly suited to places of small dimensions. It
will grow big, but can readily be kept small by clipping.

Taxus cuspidata, continued
with tall, narrow ever-
greens and there is nothing
now available better than
the Japanese Yew,
Height Each 10

li.,-2ft S3 00 $27 50

3-4 ft 12 00 100 00

4-5ft.,]4yrs.

old 18 00 150 00

5-6 ft 25 00 225 00

T. cuspidata. JAPANESE
YEW. FLAT FORM.

This makes a broad, flat
bush 2 feet high and 6 feet
wide; some plants %\ill grow
up 6 feet high. The big
plants we ofl'er of these are
5 feet wide and ten years
old. They should be exten-
sively used for foundation
plantings. A customer

writes, "I want a founda-
tion planting but no ever-
greens." He had seen such
niixtures of yellow, blue,
and green, and such an un-
reposeful conglomeration of spikes and exclamation points that he re-
volted from the average foundation jalanting. If he had seen a good,
restful composition of this variety, he would have asked for it rather
than simply vetoing evergreens. Unfortunately, there are but few
examples of foundation planting of good design. If you vill bring a
sketch or photograph or a memory picture, you can make good foun-
dation planting by selecting mostly these Yews. For garden borders,
this variety can be kept clipped like boxwood 4, 6, and 12 inches
high, with no worry about winter-killing. For a low hedge on tlie edge
of a terrace, plants 1 to 2 feet high are just the tiling. The brilliant
scarlet cups decorate some of the plants from late summer to
autumn, as illustrated on page 12. As we are growing these by the
ten thousands you can plan to use them extensively and feel certain
that .you are making a safe and economical purchase.

Height Each 10 Height Each 10

HixUyih S3 50 S30 00 I 1^x3 ft SI 8 00 S175 00

1 «4 X 2 ft 6 00 50 00 I 1 Ji X 'I ft 25 00 225 00

T. cuspidata nana (brevifoHa). DWARF JAPANESE YEW. A
very compact, stubby plant with dense, dark green foliage. From the
central part there will be long shoots growing at an upward angle. It
is adapted for collections of dwarf evergreens, to edge down foundation
planting of the Hat form of Japanese Yew and other evergreens. It
will make a green carpet for it can be pinched back or clipped to
within one or two feet of the ground. When fifteen years old, the
plant may be 4 feet wide and one and one-half feet high, looking like
an evergreen at timber line.

Height Each 10

1 X 11^ ft S5 00 S40 00

IM X 2 ft 8 00 70 00

Foundation planting of Juniper— Common Juniper set 2 1/2 feet apart will do this. For the taller points use other Junipers or Japanese cypress
or Japanese yew. tfnder the Juniper 15; a carpet of myrtle. A rhododendron peeps out, but it would be better to use them mostly on the shady
side and the Junipers on the sunny side.

Taxus baccata repandens. SPREADING YEW. This variety of the English Yew is luircly. It will grow about l}i feet
liigh and 4 feet wide. It lias a restlul, graceful outline, with brandies branching outward and downward. Horizontal lines in
the landscape are rare. Nurserymen are not prone to grow such plants because they take up ground and apjjear liigh-priced
when charged by the height, therefore too much nursery stock is trained as sharp spikes.

Spreading Yew can very properly make up the major portion of the foundation planting on one or ^

more sides of your house. Perhaps you would like to continue an evergreen planting across a vista and
want to be certain that nothing will interfere with the line of view. Perhaps, you have tall hemlocks,
pines, and spruce bordering a road and wish lo bring out the green to the road without
a strip of lawn. For all these i>laccs and many more the Spreading Yew will qualify,
but we would not put it in the midst of an open lawn as we would the Japanese Yesv,
for it prefers the sliadc and shelter of buildings or trees.

Each 10

1 X 11^ ft. .spread S5 00 S45 00

1 .X 21^ ft. spread 12 00 100 00

Thuya occidentalis. AMERICAN ARBORVIT^.
Usually seen as a narrow, pyramidal tree 5 10 10 feet
high and half as wide, but it will grow to be a large
tree in Canada. Foliage is a bright green in the
summer and bronze or brownish green in winter.

HdKJu Each 10

2-3 ft SI 00 39 00

3-4 ft 3 00 25 00

T. occidentalis Boothii. BOOTH'S ARBORVIT^.

A little ball of green about 1 to 2 feet high, suitable
for foundation planting, window-boxes and feath-
ering down groups of taller evergreens. We have an
unusually fine .stock of these at low rates, and you
can use them freely as temporary fillers where ,\'OU
may later move apart the Hat and dwarf Japanese
yew, Mugho pine, juniper, leucothoe, and other low
evergreens. 8-12 in. high., SI. 25 each, SIO for 10.
T. occidentalis compacta. COMPACT ARBOR-
VIT.^. Similar to Boothii. 1 ft. high, SI each,
S9 for 10.

. occidentalis Douglasii pyramidalis. PYRAM-
IDAL DOUGLAS' ARBORVIT^. Makes a
narrow pyramid 1 foot wide and 4 feet high, with
dark green crested fronds. It is suitable for points
in a lormal garden or foundation i>lanting.

Hfigfu Each 10

IH ft SI 50 S12 50

2 ft 2 00 17 50

About twelve years ago we planted seeds of Hemlocks on the north side
of a hill. Now there is a quantity of trees from 4 to 7 feet high that will make
hedges like this. They have good roots and are sure to grow. Hemlocks are
not common, and if you are an admirer of the most graceful native evergreen,
you ought to take advantage of this opportunity. Have you a favorite woodland
walk or driye where the Hemlock v.'ill look as if it had always been there?
You will enjoy selecting the taller and more open specimens for that purpose.

HICKS /^V/RSERIES

EVERGREEN TREES

Tsuga • HEMLOCK

Tsuga canadensis. AMERICAN HEMLOCK. One of

the most beloved and admired of the evergreens for its

graceful beauty. You should use it between and in front

of pines and oaks where it will get a little shelter from

the northwest wind and March sun. It is not a

plant to stand out alone in this region, as a pine

or oak. There are miles of monotonous shrubbery

that need the addition of Hemlocks, laurel, holly,

and Leucotlioe to make it useful and beautiful in

the winter. Clear an area of 10 feet and put a Hemlock in your

grove of trees, or, in the woods, under|j|ant with Hendock, for it

likes and endures the shade. For foundation planting, you can use the

Hemlock temporarily; you can nip it back to keep it from getting too

big. Don't put it on the windiest corner. For the vista you would like to

make through the woods, Hendocks will do. You can keep them clipped

to a vertical wall, although it is better to have them wider at the bottom. Does

your woodland look monotonous? Do you want to look way through the

trunks and see green that is harmonious? Scatter them about as you see

the north woodland.

Height Each Kl 1 Height Each

3 ft Si 50 S30 00 5 ft S6 00

4 ft 4 00 35 00 I 6 ft 9 00

S50 00

80 00

Leucothoe CatesbEei. This relative of laurel and rhododendron is gathered in quantity in the Appala-
chians for decorating. From the thousands of plants in the Hicks Nurseries, j'ou can be finding new uses
all the year — in the woods, under the shrubs and trees, at the foundation. Sec page 25.

Euonymus radicans vegetus, or
Round-leaved Evergreen Bitter-
sweet. See page 24.

Tsuga diversifolia. JAPA-
NESE HEMLOCK. This
resembles the American Hem-
lock but appears, like several
other evergreens from Japan
and Manchuria, able to
stand a brighter winter sun-
shine, colder and drier winter
wind, and drier summer than
its American relatives. It
has shorter, lighter green
foliage. You can use it for
a hedge, ]>lanttng it with the
American varietj', or even
planting in more open and
sunny situations as on the
lawn or corner of the house.
Height Each 10

2-21.^ ft... S3 00 S25 00

3-4 ft 5 00 45 00

4 ft 6 00 50 00

5 ft 8 00 70 00

6 ft 10 00 90 00

OLD HEMLOCK HEDGE

Your garden may need a Hemlock Hedge as a background to give a linished, mellow, quiet air. The soft, velvety texture of
clipped Hemlock closely reproduces the yew of England, which, unfortunately, is not hardy.

This Hendock Hedge surrounded the garden of a tree-lover. When the property was olfered for sale, we moved the hedge to

our nursery in summer. It is 600 feet long, and can be used to make a garden theatre, to shut off the street, to enclose an entrance

court, screen the service- or laundry-yard, garage, or vegetable-garden. Those who really appreciate the best and iiave the right

conditions, or will make the right conditions, can count on our cooperation to make their garden one of the best in the country.

This hedge can be safcl>' shipped a thousand

miles. Please send photograph of the site you

propose for it. Have your architect and

landscape architect consider it in lieu

of marble, granite, concrete, or

brick. As the background for

your outdoor social life it niaj'

be the best.

Time-saving is the greatest
material achievement of the
age. You have it with re-
gard to knowlc{lge, travel,
brick, cement, and steel.
In this hedge you can
have it in a wall of
green.

How decide if it will
do?

Are you in the
Hemlock region from
Nova Scotia to Min-
nesota and Alabama?
Is the situation shel-
tered from ocean
winds?

Do h u n g r y trees
rob?

Daphne Cneorum. Sec p.nge 24

Hemlock Hedge over fifty years old at Hicks Nurseries

Pachysandra, Myrtle, and Euonymus radicans. They are worthy of much wider use in shady places. Japanese Barberry in corner

Broad-Leaved Evergreens, Foundation Plants
Plants for Woods and Shade, Cover Plants

This is a general title. You ^^■iII wonder what it means. A Broad-Ieavcd E\Trgrccn is one like hollj^ laurel,
rhododendron, that does not have a needle-shaped leaf or belong to tlie conifer family, as pine, spruce, hemlock
and arborvitse.

Foundation planting is an art of recent development. The ]irofcssors of landscaj^e architecture scold because
too much is planted. They say a liouse should not sit on bushes but show the foundation, bringing up a group of
foliage between the windows ■\\ith pcrliaps a high point at the corners. Air. Jens Jensen, the great landscajie
architect, of Chicago, said, "Do you want a horticultural curiosity shop or a nice, quiet place?" Probaijiy you
have foundation planting around your liouse and you want to know how to do it better. There are ]}ublications
that show, by picture and text, how to group the shrubs, but really the best way is to consult a competent de-
signer and thus avoid many pitfalls.

Foundation planting can be made of annual and perennial fiowers, flowering shrubs, the needle-shaped e\x'r-
grecns, as pine, spruce and Japanese cypress, or of broad-lea^•ed e\crgrccns. You can go through all these stages
successively and then begin all over again if you wish. Perhaps, like a garden expert in East Hampton, you will
say, "I have been all around the garden question and have come back to green."

Berberis Gagnepainil. CHINESE EVERGREEN BAR-
BERRY. See Rare Plants, page 34.

Berberis verruculosa. CHINESE EVERGREEN BAR-
BERRY. See Rare Plants, page 34.

Buxus sempervirens. BOX-
WOOD. Bo.\ is an old favor-
ite lor foundation ]>lanting
and garden borders. This is
the variety that grows rapid-
ly, making a round bush 3
feet higii in about ten years.
It can be clipi^ed to a little
hedge 6 inches higli lor gar-
den borders or edging the
foundation planting, s|)acing
6 to 8 inches apart. Bos-
wood likes the shade where
not robbed by tree roots.
Feed with bone-meal.

Height Each 10 100

6-12 in. . .SO 50 S3 50 S30 00

1-1 lo ft.. 2 00 15 00

2 ft 7 00 60 00

B, sempervirens. BOX-

WOOD (Sheared pyra-
mids). Clipped to points
about 3 feet high and 2 feet
spread.

Height Each 10

3 ft 810 00 S90 00

4 ft 14 00

White Pine and Laurel as a windbreak and shel-
tered cove at Hewlett, Long Island

CKS /MWRSERIES

BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS

Pachistima Canbyi, or Mountain Loi'tr, as an evergreen moss-like
cover 6 inches high. The larger leaves in the background are Rhodo-
dendron carolinianum. There are many places like this where you can
have as much fun and exercise improving your home landscape as in
playing a game of golf.

Calluna vulgaris. SCOTCH HEATHER. There are many
plants wliicli have a strong hold on the alfcctions. Scotch
Heatlier lias not been coinmoiily planted because people
did not know how easy it was to grow. It has escaped and
run wild in several places in Nantucket, Rhode Island, and
Massachusetts. It makes a dense mat, 1 to IJo feet high,
with grey-green foliage anci myriads of spikes of pink
flowers. Use it in your flower-garden, as a border to the
path, edging down a group of dwarf evergreens, such as
juniper, laurel, rhododendrons, or out on a sandy hillside
where it is iJie brightest color. Space tlie plants a foot or
more apart. You can make a beautiful Heather garden on
level lanci or on a slope. 6 in. high, potted plants, 80 cts.
each, S7.50 for 10.

C. vulgaris alba pilosa. WHITE SCOTCH HEATHER.
Tali-growing form with steel-gray leaves and white flowers.
3-in. pots, SI eacii, S9 for 10.

C. vulgaris cuprea. PURPLE SCOTCH HEATHER.
Yellow foliage turning to a bright red in early fall. 3-in. pots,
SI each, S9 for 10.

C. vulgaris rnonstrosa. PINK SCOTCH HEATHER. Pink
(lowers. 3-in. pots, SI each, S9 for 10.

Chameecyparis. RETINISPORA. See page 12.

Cotoneaster horizontalis. ROCK SPRAY. Sometinies
called "Quince Berry." This belongs to the apple family
and has tiny red fruits, like the hawthorn, and white or
pink llowers. It spreads out horizontallj% and keeps less than
a foot high. Tiie colored picture on page 35 is good but the
real ]ilant is better. We will have plants in pots so you can
get them all summer. 3-in. pots, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Daphne Cneorum. GARLAND FLOWER. See page 22 for
the picture in color. It is a little, trailing plant, about 6
inches high, with pink (lowers in May and again in late
summer. The spicy perfume you will enjoy and never for-
get, 2-yr. plants, SI each, S9 for 10.

Euonymus radicans. JAPANESE EVERGREEN BITTER-
SWEET. Several of these \''arieties are worthy of extensive
use. The foliage is perlectly harcly, whereas the Englisli ivy
sunburns and occasionally kills back. You can use Euony-
mus radicans in quantity to carpet the ground, run up tree
trunks, cover the wall, or clamber over stumps and rocks.
It does not like tlie hot sun. The picture on page 22 shows
what you and the birds would like for winter. Euonymus
radicans is the form witli ovate leaves raised from seed.
10-15 in. high, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10.

E. radicans acutus. SHARP-LEAVED EVERGREEN
BITTERSWEET. A long-leaved, sharp-pointe<l type, red
on the under side, giving a new color note in cover plants for
shaded places. 2-yr. plants, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10.

E. radicans minimus. SMALL-LEAVED EVERGREEN
BITTERSWEET. Another Tom Thumb. Will make a
little mound about 6 inches high and 1 foot broad, with
leaves the size of a mouse's ear. Use as a carpet or at the
edge of a foundation planting and other monotonous ever-
green gardens. Creeps up a wall 2 to 3 feet, or climbs up the
trunks of trees, thus hiding what is sometimes a bare and ugly
tree in the plantation. 2-yr. plants, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Euonymus radicans vegetus. ROUND-LEAVED EVER-
GREEN BITTERSWEET. This form is propagated from
fruiting branches of the old vine and therefore retains the
bushy, branching habit, so it can be kept as a little dome,
2 feet wide. It Irults early and you have the peculiar com-
bination of an evergreen vine growing as a bush and fruiting
while young. It will also grow as a vine. If the seeds are
sown they produce the form first mentioned. 12-15 in,
high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Galax aphylla. GALAX. Try a few among the rhododen-
drons or laurel or in a hedge. The leaves are bright green,
about 2 inches in diameter and the plant grows about a
foot high. In the winter they turn a rich bronze-red, and
it is then that they are collected in large quantities in tlie
southern mountains for the florist trade for making up
funeral designs, 6-12 in. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Ilex crenata. JAPANESE HOLLY. The leaf is like that of
the boxwoocl, not the holly, and the berries are black. You
will find it most happy in among other evergreens in the
foundation planting or out among the pines ancl oaks or in
the woods. The outline of the plant is open and picturesque,
not smooth like the boxwood. The tips of the plants may
■winter-kill if grown in the open, but that is no objection as it
merclv trims it back and keeps it down to a most useful size.
Height Each 10

1 ft. S2 00 S15 00

3-4 ft 10 00

L opaca. AMERICAN HOLLY. The Holly is native as far
north as Cape Cod. As one landscape architect has said,
"It does not like to have the sun shine on its head," there-
fore, nestle it in among pines and oaks as you see it in the
woods. It will not keep its best color out in the winter sun.
Holly is slow to start growing, so don't expect to get big
ones cheap but plant a lot of little ones ancl among them
some varieties as mentioned under hemlock. Take out of
your foundation planting some big, ragged Japanese cypress
or spruce and put in several Holly trees. When the>' grow
too big, pinch them buck for several years; then we will tell
you how to safely move them out to where they will have
more room to develop their full beauty. You can make no
more welcome present than a collection of Holly, heatlier,
azaleas, ancl other choice plants. 2 ft. high, S4 ea., S35 for 10.

Kalmia latifolia. MOUNTAIN LAUREL. Landscape
groups need tying together and the ground wants covering.
Something is necessary to hold the mulch, and there is need
of winter beauty and summer llowers — Laurel abundantly
supplies all these demands. Use it freely in the foundation
planting, among and at the edge of the shrubs, unclcr your
shade trees and evergreens. Plant it about 3 feet apart. It asks
notliing but a mulch of leaves and perhaps a drink of water
half a dozen times the first year. In late May, the Laurel
blooms provide the greatest show in eastern North America,
fklglil Eaeh 10 100

1ft S2 00 S17 50 SI 50 00

2 ft 2 50 20 00 175 00

House at Great Keck, L. I. Foundation planting and shade tree

Garden of Prof, C. S. Sargent at Brookline, Mass., considered one of the best in the country. You can follow the same iil;iii— big shrubs,

small shrubs, as the white Deutzia, Darwin Tulips, and Gennan Iris

nissioii of The Macmillan Co., from the Cyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by L. H. Bailey. Copyright, 1917, by The Maciiijllaii Co.

This plate is reproduced, by per

Leucothoe Catesb^i. DROOPING ANDROMEDA. A

close relative of tlie laurel and native of tlie southern moun-
tains. You can use it as suggested for laurel, where it will
be particularly valuable among the tali evergreens on the
north side of your house and among your slirubs and trees.
It is entirely harmonious with Long Island woodland and
yet different enough to attract appreciative attention.
Makes a long, arching spray, perhaps 3 feet long, with long
pointed bronze-red leaves. See illustration on page 22.

Height Each 10 100

6-12 in SO 75 S6 00 S50 00

12-18 in 100 9 00 75 00

Pachistima Canbyi. MOUNTAIN LOVER. A carpet of
green and bronze-red about 6 inclies high. It is related to
the euonymus and is native on rocky ledges in the Appala-
chian Mountains. You can tuck it in under the foundation
planting at the edge or you can place it in the border of a
path, in the rock-garden with ferns, or in the woods. 2-in.
pots, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10, See page 24.

Pachysandra terminalis. JAPANESE SPURGE. A green
carpet-like plant with no difiicult points and no bad habits.
After it is established it keeps down the weeds. It is eco-
nomical because the underground roots spread out 6 inches
and come out with new plants and has been Introduced by
landscape architects who use tlie best. A valuable and
useful plant on the smallest grounds, for it will eliminate
labor. At the edge of a path, or between shrubs and ever-
greens, it will carpet the ground so completely that It does
not have to be hoed or the weeds pulled out. The foliage is
bright green all the year. The flowers are white and not
conspicuous. 8 in. high, 25 cts, each, $2 for 10, S18 per 100.

Pinus Mughus. See page 16.

Potentilla tridentata. We went up to Mt. Washington to
collect attractive little rock plants and this one seems to
be happy at this altitude. It has strawberry-like blossoms
and dark evergreen foliage like pipsissewa. 6 in, high,
75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Rhododendron catawbiense Hybrids. You will find here a
magnificent collection of plants full of bloom-buds. Come
and pick them out as they are coming Into bloom, or order
from the catalogue. You will get an assortment of colors
that will be a most pleasant surprise, and with them can
brighten the background of narrow-leaved evergreens and
shrubs.

Height Each 10

1 1^-2 ft $5 00 $45 00

2-2H ft 7 00 60 00

R. maximum. A species in the mountains as far north as
Nova Scotia. It has leaves 8 to 10 inches long, with bright
pink flowers in late June or early July. Plant it in places
more sheltered from wind and sun than the Catawbiense
hybrids. 2 ft. high. S3 each, S25 for 10.

Viburnum rhytidophyllum. EVERGREEN SNOWBALL.
A new and rare plant with graceful flowers and berries like
the high-bush cranberry, leaves like Rhododendron rtiaximum,
and crinkly like the Japanese snowball. It is not available
and has not been tested for general use, but you will enjoy
trying it in a sheltered shaded place. 2 ft. high, S5 each.

Vinca minor. MYRTLE. This plant is associated in your
mind with an old farmhouse where you have picked its
blue flowers with the first violet, and where you remember
seeing it carpet the ground under the spruce and locust trees.
As described under pachysandra, use it for carpeting the
ground and shaded places. Don't ask if it will solve the
problem of bare ground under maples. 30 cts, each, S2.50
for 10, S20 per 100.

Yucca filamentosa. ADAM'S NEEDLE; SPANISH
BAYONET. See illustration, page 46. This is not exactly
a foundation plant because the vertical lines are not so
restful as the horizontal and rounded outlines of the yew,
juniper, and laurel. It has upright, sword-shaped leaves
that keep a bright living green all winter, not turning yellow
or brown in June and the showiest white flowers with
creain-wliite cups. Plant it extensively on the sand-dunes
and sandy fields. 30 cts. each, S2.50 for 10.

You will find many alpine plants on Mounts Katahdin, Moosilauke, and Marcy, that you can introduce

High-Bush
Cranberry

BERRY- BEARING SHRUBS FURNISH
FOOD FOR SONG- AND GAME-BIRDS

All winter long the thickets are ahve with the birds
that get their food from the berry-bearing shrubs. The
food-plants of the birds, squirrels, the Indians, and
the early settlers are the best guide to what should be
grown now. With berry-bearing shrubs around your
place you can make the birds contented, you can study
them from your window, and you can enjoy their songs
in the field, the hedge-row, in the swamp, and on the
hilltops. The birds will stay as long as the berries are
there, so have aplenty.

John Burroughs says that the insect-eating birds
would starve if they did
not have berries. You
maj^ notice that in early
spring, before the angle-
worms come up, the rob-
ins feed on berries. Make
a border of berried shrubs
and trees, spacing them 3
to 6 feet apart, or add
these shrubs to your pres-
ent border. Plant shrubs
freely on the hills, along
the woodland borders, by the streams and shores, even
if you do not own the land. You can lead your com-
munity in this movement and can surprise your friends
with the show which these shrubs will make- — and it is
a show that is harmonious and in good taste.

The fruits from many of these trees and shrubs can
be used in the home for making jams, preserves, or
fruit juices. You will enjoj'^ picking and eating them

Winterberry

as you Stroll about your grounds. Some of them are
less sour or bitter after they are frozen — for instance,
the little Siberian Crab tastes as good as apple sauce.
Are you afraid of poisonous berries? We will refer you
to literature on that. We are willing to try out the new
ones.

If you have a place where berry-bearing shrubs can
be used, telephone us (Westbury 68), drop us a line,
send us a sketch, or a photograpli of the place, and we
will help you to carry out your ideas.

For Game-Covers. Plant the berry-bearing shrubs
by the thousands, follow-
ing the fashion that has
prevailed in England for
many years, where shrubs
that take care of them-
selves are used. Study it
scientifically to provide
for long blizzards. At the
Arnold Arboretum there
are over 100 species with
berries in March.

Groves of evergreens,
and oaks that hold their leaves during the cold season,
will give winter protection for tlie birds. Thickets of
shrubs, including the thorns, will give Iiavens of refuge
where the birds will be safe from the attacks of hawks
and predatory animals. You can plant many of them
all summer. Let us help you plan several years' pro-
gramme in planting your game-preserve and bird-
sanctuary.

Red Chokeberry

Berry-bearing shrubs, our selection, 1-3 ft., 50 cts. each, $4 for 10, $30 per 100, $250 per 1,000
You can plant many all summer and half the winter

BERRY-BEARING SHRUBS THAT YOU CAN GET AT HICKS'

Page

Arrow- Wood 33

Beach Plum 31

Bittersweet 24

Black Alder 30

Burning Bush . 30

Bush Honeysuckle 31

Chokeberry 27

Cotoneaster 35

Crab-Apple 35

Page

Dogwood 29

Euonymus 30

High-Bush Cranberry 33

Holly . 24

Indian Currant 32

Japanese Barberry 29

Japanese Bush Cranberry 33

Japanese Dogwood 3

Japanese Honeysuckle 31

Page

Japanese Quince. 30

Japanese Turquoise Berry 36

Magnolia ^

Privet 30

Roses 37

Spice Bush .29

Snowberry 32

Sumac 31

Virginia Creeper 38

FLOWERING
SHRUBS

Acer palmatum atropurpureum. BLOOD-LEAVED
JAPANESE MAPLE. Tlie purple-red foliage satisfies
the desire for something different, a strong contrast to green.
It grows about 1 foot a year and makes a tree-shaped shrub
about 12 feet high. It is usually planted as a specimen, but
can be used in groups of shrubs. 2— 2J^ ft. high, S5 each.

A. tatarica. SIBERIAN MAPLE. These plants are just
right for a new kind of a hedge; they can be planted 2 feet
apart. Its autumn color is tlie most brilliant in our nursery
together with that of tlie dogwood, Virginia creeper, and
pepperidge. It makes a big bush 10 feet high in five years;
therefore it is one of the best items offered for massing in
shrubberies and planting in groves of dogwood, silver bell,
and taller trees. '

Height Each 10 100

2-3 ft SO 40 $3 50 S30 00

3-4 ft 50 4 50 40 00

Amelanchier spicata. SHAD-BUSH; JUNEBERRY.

Almost as good as huckleberries, but several weeks earlier;
the birds feast on them. The earliest white shrub to bloom,
coming before its relative, the apple, and therefore makes
a good foreground for hemlock and pine. It forms a dense
thicket 2 feet high; therefore plant IJ^ feet apart, in front
of taller shrubs to hold the blowing leaves and save hoeing.
1-2 ft. high, 35 cts. each, S3 for 10, $25 per 100.

Amygdalus communis fl.-pl. DOUBLE-FLOWERING
ALMOND. Has dainty double blossoms, like little pink
buttons, in pcach-blossom-time, on stems 2 feet high. One
of several ornamental flowering fruits you can add without
taking much space. 1 1^-2 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S7 for 10.

Aronia arbutifolia. RED CHOKEBERRY. See page 26.
A native shrub which retains its bright red berries through
the entire winter. 2 ft. higii, 75 cts. each, S7 for 10.

A. nigra. BLACK CHOKEBERRY. Chokeberries and
the juneberries are difficult to tell apart when growing
wild. Both should be used in masses, as edgings and under-
growth, to hold tlie blowing leaves and thus feed themselves
and tlie larger slirubs and trees. You can get big clumps by
the hundred and plant 2 feet apart. The black, juicy
fruit is astringent and supplies food for the birds all winter.
Perhaps you have eaten them bj' mistake when
picking huckleberries and found tlie little apple-like
fruits rightly named. 3 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for
10, S50 per 100.

AZALEA

Have you huckleberry, laurel, or arbutus in your
region? Then add Azalea, rhododendron, Icucotlioe,
andromcda, and hcatlier. Tliey are all members of the
heath famity and like to flock together.

Where to make an Azalea garden? Anywhere on
Long Island or off Long Island except in heavy lime-
stone clay. What do Azaleas like? Shade, not the root
robbery of swamp trees on drj' land, as sugar maple,
elm, and poplar. What kind of shade do they like?
Shade of evergreens, shrubs, and oaks, and the north
side of the house.

I pass thousands of old places that look as if shrubs
and trees occupy all the land they should, but I try to
think what more I can sell that would fit. Frequently
the first thought is Azaleas under the trees and along
the edges of shrubbery or foundation planting.

Azalea arborescens. FRAGRANT AZALEA. A neat,

round bush witli pure white, fragrant flowers in late May.
It closelj' resembles A. viscosa except in earliness. 1-2 ft.
high, SI each, S8.50 for 10.
A. Kaempferi. Closely allied to the Hinodigiri and Karume
Azaleas but does not hold its leaves in winter. One of the
finest estates on Long Island has scattered thousands of
them through the woods among the laurel and white pine.
They range in color through deep reds, briglit reds, pale
reds, and pinks; some have a tinge of purple. It will be
possible to play a new tune in Long Island landscapes
with these and other Azaleas, Tiiey will wake up enthusi-
asm for the beauty of the country several weeks earlier

Azalea Kaempferi, continued

than heretofore. They will show that the Long Island
woods are beautiful and can be made more beautiful;
and also that the iiighest type of civilization and art is
not that whicli makes the greatest display but that which
utilizes and adds to local natural conditions, 8-12 in. high,
SI each, 57.50 for 10.

A. Hinodigiri. See page 28. Has the brightest red
blooms of all the Azaleas. If you see a little ball of fiery
red in some planting in early May, this is it. You will
not see many of them, for it has only recentlj' been intro-
duced. Tuck it in under the edges of evergreens and mulch
6 inches deep with leaves. This is usually classified under
Broad-leaved Evergreens because it retains some foliage
in the winter but you do not want to look in two places to
carry out your Azalea enthusiasm. 12-15 inches high, S2.50
each, S22.50 for 10.

A. nudiflora. PINXTER FLOWER. The Azalea you have
occasionally seen in the woods, with pale pink, fragrant
flowers. It is native on the northern slope of Long Island,
high up on the hills or above the spring outcrops in the
sandy slopes. Those of you who have such a situation can
make a garden of delight far better than Italian gardens,
sunken gardens or terraces. It blooms the second week
in May. 1-2 ft. high, SI. 25 each. SIO for 10.

A. Vaseyi. CAROLINA AZALEA. There is no plant you
can add to your garden or woodland planting which will
give greater delight at its season of bloom than this. It
is the first of the Azaleas to bloom in early May and the
color is the daintiest and clearest pink you can imagine,
while the texture of the flower is equal to the rarest orchid.
This is one of the species we have in mind when we ad-
vise your coming and picking out little plants for this
year and next year. Our pride in the achievement of
growing quantities of these, offering them at low rates, is
only excused by the pleasure of widely distributing tlieni
where the plants will ^^ be iiappy and give pleasure. 1-1 J^
ft. high, $1.25 each, ^^^10 for 10, S90 per 100.

The hunger for autumn color of Maple is best satisfied by Siberian
Maple, a new and comparatively little-known tree. A hedge, a group,
or the addition of a few to the back of the shrubbery will add distinction
to youi place. It is the first autumn color, turning about September 15.

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mmESTBKJRY, LONG ISLAND^i^j^

There could hardly be a representative border without some Spirsa Van Houttei. In May, the spot is magnetic to the eye

Azalea viscosa. SWAMP AZALEA. Here is where you
can get bulk, quality, and economy. These plants were
cut over about six or seven years ago and are now big,
broad, bushy plants that come up with a clump of dirt as
heavy as a man wants to lift. They are set witli hundreds
of buds and bloom the iirst year. They produce very
fragrant, white blossoms in June and July, after all the
other Azaleas have passed. 2-3 ft. high, $1-50 each, $12.50
for 10, SlOO per 100.

Berberis aristata. Yellow Mowers in June, followed by
attractive red fruits, make this shrub excellent for mass
planting. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S7 for 10.

B. Thunbergii. JAPANESE BARBERRY. A popular
hedge-plant. On account of its spreading habit it can be
planted l^ feet apart, or, if you are willing to wait, 2 feet
apart. The abundant red berries are often the most con-
spicuous and cheerful sight in the winter landscape. Wlii e
dictating this, a pigeon hawk flew down on the sunny side
of a privet hedge and made oH" with a sparrow. If the
hedge had been of Thunberg's Barberry or otiier thorny
bushes, probably the hawk would have been fodcd. In
the state of nature there is a far larger percentage of thorny
trees and shrubs to protect the birds.

Heieht Eacli 10 100

I ft . .SO 35 S3 00 S25 00

I I .S-^2"ft.V.'.V. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.. 50 4 50 40 00

Buddleia Davidii magnifica. SUMMER LILAC, BUTTER-
FLY BUSH. The popular name is based on the lact that
tlicre arc frequently a half-dozen butterllies hovering around
it. It blooms continually from midsummer to frost, bear ng
long, slender, arching racemes of lilac-like tlowers. This is
just the right plant to add to your shrubbery, foundation
or the flower-garden. It dies down nearly every year and
shoots up in the spring like a vigorous fountain 3 feet high.
2-yr. plants, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10.

Calycanthus floridus. SWEET SHRUB, ALLSPICE.
STRAWBERRY SHRUB. Fragrance has a stronger
hold on memory than form. Occasionally a man who knows
but little of the pleasures of the country comes to the nursery
and tries to describe this plant by his boyhood remembrance
of its fragrance. 2 21^ ft. high, 60 cts. each, S5 for 10.

Cornus alba sibirica. RED-TWIGGED DOGWOOD.

The brightest bark in winter; carmine-red is a rare color
and a pleasant variation. If your place is small, put in one
or two; if large, use a sweep 50 to 100 feet long. To get
the best color, cut out the oldest branches. 1 } 2-^1 2 fl- high,
60 cts, each, 85 for 10.

C. mas. CORNELIAN CHERRY. See page 32. A week or
two before the forsythia, or golden bell, this is a mass ol
bright veilow, like the spicewood of the swamps; in August it
looks like the tree cranberry. We have used the fruits for jam
and to make an acid drink. You can use this plant in your
shrubbery or among your collection of small trees, for it
grows ultimately 15 feet high. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each.
$6 for 10.

C. paniculata. PANICLED DOGWOOD. The slender
twigs, coming up about 5 feet high, are topped oil with
clusters of pearly berries, soon Klri])pcd by the birds in
September. It grows so
densely that it is good
for holding mulch at the
border of plantations of
trees and shrubs. In
winter it has a pleasant
color efl'ect of silvery
grey bark, slightly tinged
with red. 2 ft. high,
60 cts. each, S5 for 10.

C. stolonifera lutea.
YELLOW-TWIGGED
DOGWOOD. Just like
the Red-twigged Dog-
wood, but the twigs are
like a yellow pencil.
Color harmony experts
can tell you whether to
plant it with or separate
from tlie other. Let us
help you start a winter
garden with color, berries
and evergreens. 2 ft. high,
60 cts. each, S5 for 10.

Calycanthus. Sweet Shrub. For
its quiet foliage and old-time's sake,
plant a sweep of them 3 feet apart.

AZALEA HINODIGIRL In the garden of Mrs. Robert Bacon, Westbury, L. I. Painting on page 28 by Miss Amy Cross.

Azalea Hinodigiri is the plant with bright red {lowers introduced a few years ago Iron, Japan. These plants liad been
growing several years with Laurel, in the shade of Cedars and Pines ,n the b.rd-sanctuary on the nght, and were th ed ou
and placed in this position. We are mentioning this because we are not certam that ycni could take a ''ll'<= '^ "^"^^'"^f ''"^ '
in such an open situation and have it grow to this height. You had better grow it tiicked .n among ?y<^^g^^f"^ ''/^^'^^^^^^^^
by your house foundation and nuilched with leaves. The tall flowering trees in the background are Red-Bud, or American
Judas. The spires are Red Cedar; the border is Phlo.v divaricata Laphami. i^c.K, r,tt,..l

The economical way in which this estate is developed is worthy of careful study. It is to use little phints so closely fttcd
to the conditions that they almost take care of themselves; then, in a few years thin them out ancl make 'fw garde so
delight. The bird-sanctuary on the right was a bare, windswept hill. Now the robins stay all winter for. they liave balanced
rations all the year with Holly, Beach Plum, Blueberry, Flowering Apple. Winterberry, Cotoneaster, High-bush Cranberry,
and many other plants. Your artistic imagination can compose similar pictures; your ener gy can make them.

AIV/RSERIES

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Corylus americana. HAZELNUT. You like Hazelnuts.
1 here is no irouble taking out the [neat from the convohi-
tions of tiie shell as with the mockernut, hickory-nut and
butternut. You can plant them this spring and pick them
in August. Don't wait for the frost or the chipmunks and

mice will get ahead of
you. Plant them as a
thicket under your
oaks and pines, or use as
a border to your shrubs
or make a hedge. Per-
haps you can discover
a large variety. 13-4-2
ft. high, 50 cts. each,
?4.5() for 10, S40 FJer
ICO. See also page 55,

Corylus americana. American Hazelnut. We supplied this hedge in
April, and the nuts were ready to be picked by the middle of August.
Have you a robber hedge to be replaced by fruit hedges of Blue-
berries, Beach Plum, and Hazelnut? Perhaps i'ou can invent some more
new hedges for us to introduce. Dr. Bierwirth, of Long Beach, said,
'I am going to get 130 pounds of Gooseberries from my hedges this
year; last year I got nearly as much. There is no use wasting ground
for such fruit; use them as garden hedges."

Cotoneaster. A beautiful group of little berry-bearing plants
sometimes called "Quince Berry." See Rare" Plants, page 34,
and Foundation Plants, page 24.

Cydonia japonica. JAPANESE QUINCE. Some call it
Japonica, remembering its old name, when it was first
introduced. It is startling because of the brilliance of its
flowers — just before appie-blossom-time it is a blaze of
scarlet. There are many other llowering fruits you should
add, as the double-flowering peach, the variou.s pink and
red crab-apples, the Japanese cherries, double-llowering
almonds. Primus triloba, beach plum. You can make a
miniature garden, adding two to three weeks to the hrst
bloom of the garden season. We will have some in pots or
tubs for you to take home in bloom. 1 i 9-2 ft. high 50 cts
each, S4.50 for 10, S40 per 100.

Deutzia gracilis venusta. DWARF DEUTZIA. A low,
broad shrub about 2 feet higii, and a snowbank of white
in late May. Use it in your foundation planting or in front
ol tall shrubs. 13^-2 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

D. scabra, Pride of Rochester. You have often wanted
a tall shrub to shut out a view and at tlie same time have
a lot ol flowers. Try this and the arrow-wood, or viburnum,
on page 33. Flowers are white, tinged with pink, and are
borne in great prolusion about the middle of May. 2-3 ft.
high, 75 cts. each, Sfi for 10.

Euonymus alatus. BURNING BUSH. For the most
brilliant autumn color early in the fall, try this with the
Tartarian maple and Virginia creeper. At the same time
J f opens its orange pods to show the scarlet seeds hanging
all ready for the birds. The twigs are ridged with cork like
the sweet gum. Makes a bushy, tree-shaped little shrub
5 feet or more high. It is worthv of being added to old
collections as one of the newer and better things. There
are three other species of Euonymus in our nursery of
larger growth, larger leaves, and berries. 2-3 ft. hi'di
75 cts. each, S6 for 10, S50 per 100. '

Forsythia Fortunei. i^^^^^^^^k^-^^^^^^^^

FORTUNE'S GOLDEN fl^^VMRQi^^^^H

BELL. Another shrub Sk^^V^^^^^I^I^^H

that is big, healthy, and ^BCv^P^tujOfiu^Q^^^HI

showy, soon growing 8 ^^^Kb-'^BBlSn^SSI^^^&i

feet high, and making a ^^^Hk^^^^-^^HPSBBS^I

dense, solid screen, for ^^^^^^^^•: *iar.^^P»^*^

it is well clothed at the

base. It is a brilliant ^^^^^^^^{^■ias'frr'

bank of gold wSien ^^^^^H^HS^B^Br.^^

bloom and is the first

showy shrub of spring,

which iias made its long ■%^^^Hf)C^^^K# '

Latin name familiar. 3 ^K^^^^fi^^^^s.V^

ft. high, 50 cts. each, ■fp:^J^^Ki$\^

S4.50 for 10. ^'»

Hamamelis japonica.

JAPANESE WITCH-
HAZEL. Many things
claim the honor of being
the earliest, but this
frequently blooms on

Long Island in midwinter

it there are ten warm ^^HM^ - c'

days. In the winter of
1913, we were able to
pick outdoors, every week Hamamelis or Wttch-Hazel flow-

during January and Feb- ^'^ are yellow and spicy and in
ruary, this fragrant November and December give zest
honeysuckle, ' Japanese *° ^" autumn walk or ride.
IHissy willow, and, part of the time, the jasmine. 2-3 ft.
high, SI each, S9 for 10.

H. virginiana. WITCH-HAZEL. A sturdy shrub slowly
growing to 10 feet in height. Seeds shoot several feet. 3-4 ft.
high, 75 cts, each, S6 for 10, S50 per 100.

Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora. COMMON HY-
DRANGEA. Big heads of llowers in August and September.
This IS perfectly hardy here. Do not confuse this with
tiie pink or blue Hydrangea which is sometimes hardy close
to the seashore but back from the shore has its flower-buds
kdled by the early frosts. 2-3 ft. high, SI each, S8 for 10.

Ilex verticillata. BLACK ALDER. See illustration, page
26. If you plant a group of these, some of tliem will have a
mass of holly-like berries all winter. You see clusters of
them in the florists' windows and added to Iiolly wreaths.
13^-2 ft. high, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10, S40 per 100.

Kerria japonica fl.-pL An old-fashioned shrub with globular
yellow flowers and green twigs. It grows about 3 feet high
2 ft. high, SI each, S9 for 10.

Ligustrum ovalifolium. CALIFORNIA PRIVET. A

widely ]3opular plant because it is the cheapest thing to
mark a boundary, but more especially because it is the
easiest thing to think of. When men did the buying for
suburban places they would say, "I have a lot so many
feet around. How many privet plants will 1 need for it?
I understand they are planted staggered, 2 to the foot."
We would answer, "One foot apart."

H^liei't Each 10 100

2-3 ft SO 25 S2 00 SI 2 00

3-4 ft 40 3 00 25 00

Deutzia scabra. Too large a shrub for the foundation, but just right
for a tall boundary to the street, vegetable-garden, or the orchard. It
is a coarse, rough shrub that should be at the background.

WESTBVyRY, LOMG

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Perhaps you haven't thought of the Bush
Honeysuckle, but the birds have. They are as
-^^ heavily laden with berries as the currant bush.
The first green foliage of the Norway Maple and Bush Honeysuckle
is almost as welcome to winter- and brick-weary eyes as flowers. The
pink, white, or yellow flowers come In early May. Bush Honeysuckles
are big, husky shrubs, soon 6 feet high.

Lonicera fragrantissima. FRAGRANT BUSH HONEY-
SUCKLE. This iind L. Stand'ishu li.'ivc pure lemon and
cream llowers in t-arlv spring, sonu'limes from .hinuary to
May, other times t'nmi tiu- midcUc ol" Apr!!. Frequently tlie
ilo\ver.s are open aiui are covered witii ice or snow. 1-2 ft.
high, 75 cts. each, S7 for 10.

L. Morrowii. JAPANESE BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. A
bright, sprawly hush that wiil save nione>' for you. You
can put them iO I'ect apart and there will be no vacancies. It_
has grav-green foliage, sweet yellow (lowers, and is one ol
the first to produce its bright berries; it is more profusely
covered than a cranberry bush. It has a big tangle of twigs
and is the favorite nesting-place for the catbird. No sooner
are the young birds able to lly than the berries are ready
for them. 2-3 ft. higii, 60 cts. each, S5 for 10, S45 per 100.

L. tatarica. TARTARIAN BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. Like
the above, except thai it is more upright and has white or pink
flowers. 2-3 ft. iiigii, 60 cts. each, S5 for 10 S45 per 100.

Philadelphus coronarius. MOCK ORANGE. Memories
of old farni-hoiises would not be complete without the syringa
or the lilac at the corners of the house or by the garden gale.
It has the perfume that lingers. It makes a big arching
shrub 8 feet liigii, covered with creamv white llowers in
late May. 2-3 ft. iiigh, 75 cts. each, Sfi for 10.

Prunus maritima. BEACH PLUM. Those who havie a

family to feed are enthusiastic o\er the Beach Plum. There

seems no limit to the amount of fruit they can pick or make

into jam and jelly. It forms a big, round bush 8 feet high,

covered witli healtliy dark green foliage which withstands

the drought on sand-dunes, pine-barrens, or the caustic salt

spray of the beach. Use it for any of tliesc places. Try it

for a hedge for underpianting of pines and oaks or edging

to or replacing part of your present shrubbery. It

should be possible to impro\'C the value and size and to

establish Plum culture where the European Plums have

not become established. You can help in this work both by

selecting and grafting. 1-2 ft. high, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10,

S40 per 100.

triloba. With the Beach Plums, and before the apple
blossoms, this conies out with a mass of little pink double
buds. Makes a tall shrub with good foliage. 1 J^-2 ft. high,
SI each, S9 for 10.
Rhodotypos kerrioides. WHITE KERRIA. Good shrub
for edging down tall plants. It grows about 4 feet high and
spreads out gracefully. Tiic (lowers are like the philadel|)luis,
white, about 1 ' •> inches across, fo!lowe<! by clusters of shiny
black fruit. 2-3" ft. iiigh, 50c. ea., S4.50 for 10, S40 per 100.

Rhus aromatica. AROMATIC SUMAC. Trailing shrub
with leaves like poison i\y and clusters of orange-red berries
in early June. 2 ft. high, 60 cts. each, S5 ("or 10,

Rosa rugosa. RUGOSA ROSE. It has large, showy, rose-
colored or white llowers in June, followed by big red berries,
the pidp of which is edible. Plant it as a hedge, at the
seashore. If part of tl>e stems are cut in the winter, lhe.\' will
have one crop of blossoms in the middle of May, before tlie
rose bugs arrive, and another in
,~. July after they have gone. 1-2
^V ft. high, 75 cts. each. S6 for 10.
S50 per 100.

Rhodotypos, or White Kerria. These big, sturdy shrubs in our
nursery are easily dug in full leaf, the ball of earth and roots wrapiied
in burlap, put oa an auto, and grow with but slight clieck.

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Beach Plum at Cedarhurst, L. I. At the New York Experiment Station they say, "The Beach Plum does not do well on our heavy clay soil."
The European Plums thrive there. Now that a quantity of plants are available at low prices, you can use them m quantity on the sand-dunes,
b(uffs, or in the pine-barrens.

HICKS /MVyRSERIES

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Stephanandra at Woodmere, Long Island. Its fleecy, fluffy foliage
IS happy where it can feather down tall shrubs and cover the bare
ugly A-shaped spaces between.

Rosa rugosa at Plandome, L. I. The glossy, wrinkly foliage is always
beautiful, even under salt spray. The fruits are large and shoivy,
especially near the sea. You will enjoy tasting them if you avoid the
bristles around the seeds.

Salix multinervis. JAPANESE PUSSY WILLOW. Tliis
has been blossoming outside in JaruKiry and February
(1923). Tlie school children know where it is from year to
year, but sonietinies thej-^ get fooled, because in a nursery
plants do not stay in the same place. It makes a shrub 44-,
feet high and twice as wide. ' "^

2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each,
S6 for 10.

Spiraea, Anthony Waterer.

RED SPIREA. Shrub about

2_ feet high, witJi magenta-
pink llowers in iale June,

continuing throughout the

summer. The later bloom ■

is more abundant if the

first flowers are cut

away. 1 ft. high, 75

cts. each, S6 for 10.
S. Thunbergii. SNOW

GARLAND, Rightly ■

named for it looks like a

snowbank in early May. -^

The foliage is graceful and i-

changes to orange and red in ( ^

autumn. Grows about 3 feet'

high. 3 ft. high, 75 cts. each,

S6 for 10.

S. Van Houttei. Tall, arching
shrub, covered with wliite
flowers in late xMay. It grows
about 7 feet high. Do not
trim it to a dome. 2-3 ft.
high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.
See illustration, page 29.

Stephanandra flexuosa. LACE-LEAF BUSH. Good shrub
for a low hedge or bordering tall shrubs. The billowy masses

r V »"'^'>,f'"*' ^'?r^' graceful. 2 ft. Iiigfi, 50 cts. each, S4.50
lor 10, S40 per 100.

Symphoricarpos racemosus.
SNOWBERRY. A shrub
about 3 feet high with big,
showy, pure white berries
from September to Decem-
ber. 13.^ ft. high, 75 cts.
each, S6 for 10.

vulgaris. INDIAN CUR-
RANT. Tliis has a mass of
deep violent red berries in
early autumn. The manner
of growth is peculiar as it
.spreads like a strawberry
and will thickly clothe a bank
or edge tall shrubs. The
making of berry-gardens for
the birds and for autumn and
winter decoration is more
fully described on page 26,
and a list of plants suitable
for the purpose is included.
A- .3-4 ft. high, SI each, $9 for
10.

Symphoricarpos racemosus,
or Snowberry. This picture is
just to remind you of an old
favorite you have seen about
old farmhouses.

Here is how to beat your neighbors with early t

Plant Cornus mas, or Cornelian CheiTy. East of our offlce* .
you will see a plant 15 feet high and equally broad, nearly
as bright as Forsythia or Golden Bell, but ten days earlier-
it frequently blooms before the middle of April. In midsum-
mer its carmine fruits are of the shape and color of sour cher- _^
ries and have pits like olives. Substitute them for some of your pres'ent commonplace shrubs.

#tVyESTBV/RY, LONG I S LAM D6^

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Styrax, or Japanese Storax. You will enjoy the orange-blossom-like
flowers. Come when they are in bloom in early May and then take
home a plant in a pot or tub.

Styrax japonica, JAPANESE STORAX. One of tlie plants
you will be proud to know, for it is above tlie commonplace
and has the charm of a beautiful picture or piece of furniture
that gives beauty to a room. It branches out like a little
tree, and hanging over the branches are myriads of fragrant
white bells in June, followed by fruit like a coffee bean. If
you have but limited room, plant one as a specimen among
your small trees or in back of your shrubbery. If you wish
to decorate the woodland along with azaleas and dogwoods,
plant a quantity of the small ones for they will soon bloom.
2-3 ft. high, SI each, S9 for 10.
Syringa Emodi. EMODI LILAC. After the common Lilac.
Has big panicles of pink Uowers not fragrant. 3—4 ft, high,
75 cts. each, S6 for 10.
S. persica. PERSIAN LILAC. Graceful, arching shrub with
long sprays of fragrant white llowers. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts.
each, S6 for 10.
S. vulgaris. COMMON LILAC. Everybody loves the Lilac,

mostly for its fragrance. 3-4 ft. higii, SI each, S9 for 10.
Vaccinium corymbosum. HIGH-BUSH CRANBERRY.
Emphasis can be laid on this from three angles: first, food;
second, beauty; third, availability in large sizes and large
quantities. One estate on the north shore of Long Island
has planted a carload of large bushes and has an abundance
of fruits all summer. The owner of a bungalow in Westbury
plants a half-dozen bushes and also has an abundance of
fruit. He finds it helpful to put a piece of mosquito netting
or old curtain over the branches, but finds even then the
catbird will sometimes come up untlerneath and get caught.
There are no better shrubs for food-supply and landscape
beauty than the blueberry, beach plum, or hazel. Plant
them as a commercial crop and learn how to grow the
improved varieties w'liich we will be glad to tell you about
or supply you. There should be thousands of acres of
improved varieties growing on Long Island, especially along
the edges of salt meadows and borders of cranberry bogs.
The beauty of the Blueberry is in its sturdy oak-like
branches, red and yellow twigs in winter, andromeda-lihe
white bells in Maj', and brilliant autumn foliage.

Height Each 10

3 ft S2 50 S20 00

4 ft 3 50 30 00

Viburnum dentatum. ARROW-WOOD. The biggest
siirub value in the catalogue. As you will see by the picture
it makes a big dome of foliage thickly covered by pure white
llowers in May, followed by blue-black berries in the fall,
which the birds feast on. In winter it has another value —
the twigs are so dense that it makes an effective screen.

We will show you a number of naturalistic shrub borders
that are no wider than a privet hedge in some parts but
in other parts twice as wide, which form a better boundary
in variety and beauty. They cost more thought and pos-
sibly more money but less labor. You can plant these
Viburnums all summer because a big disc of soil comes up
with them.

HciRht Each 10

2-3 ft SO 75 S6 00

3-4 ft 1 00 9 00

5-6 ft 2 00 17 50

Viburnum dilatatum. JAPANESE BUSH CRANBERRY.

We discovered it crowded in the Dana Arboretum and are
now trying to popularize it. It makes a big shrub like V. dcn-
talum but covered as completely' as the elderberry with flat
discs of small, sour, red berries all winter. Even if your
place is full, let us add a collection of berry shrubs for you,
your friends, and the birds. 2-3 ft. iiigli, Si each, S9 for 10.

V. Opulus. HIGH-BUSH CRANBERRY. The secretary
of a Long Island Garden Club said, "In our place in Nova
Scotia, I run the point of my canoe into the bushes and pick
pails of cranberries. They make delicious jam." Occasion-
ally you will drive by a place in the sloppy mud-time of late
winter and notice hanging clusters of cranberries, which
quite relieve sad, <lrab landscapes. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts.
each, S6 for 10.

V. Opulus nana. DWARF VIBURNUM. A Tom Thumb, a
compact little plant about 1 foot high and equally broad,
and with flowers. There are a lot of other plants that stay
small but do not have flowers. You will enjoy prowling
around our nursery, and adding to your home landscapes.
8 in. high, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10, S40 per 100.

V. tomentosum plicatum. JAPANESE SNOWBALL. A

broad shrub witii healthy foliage and white flowers the last
of May. 2-3 ft. high, si each, S9 for 10.
Weigela Candida. WHITE WEIGELA. A shrub growing
8 feet high and equally broad, with white bell-like flowers
in early June. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

W., Eva Rathke. RED WEIGELA. Small-growing
shrub, about 4 feet high, with deep crimson-red flowers.
2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

W. rosea. PINK WEIGELA. This is like the white Weigela
but has pink and white flowers. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each,
S6 for 10.

Zanthorhiza apiifoHa. YELLOW-ROOT. To hold the
blowing leaves and cover the bare ground is the problem of
shrub and tree groups. Here is one of the things that will
stick to the job. Makes a dense mat of underground roots,
like quack grass, and sends up numerous twigs about 2 feet
high, covered with feathery foliage like the stephanandra,
and has inconspicuous flowers. We have a quanlity of it.
You now have an opportunity to use a plant which has been
used by tlie landscape architects on a few of the estates
where the best designs have been carried out, 1-1 J 2 ft- high,
50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10.

"r--VJ.

In the Viburnum dentatum, or Arrow-wood we can give you
the biggest value in shrub foliage. You want something now that is
as big, or nearly as big, as it is going to be. These plants were cut
off six years ago for an aviation field. It will take ten years to grow
such plants in the nursery and even then they would not have big
balls of earth to hang on the roots. If you want the best and the most
immediate boundary of shrubs, let us show you what these can
do. We can supply them by the thousand all the year. There are good
natural examples of such hedge rows in Meadowbrook and Garden
City on the Hempstead Plains. If you and your neighbor will allow
6 to 8 feet in width, you can have a boundary bigger, better and more
beautiful than privet. You will be doing what nature would do if the
land were abandoned, and doing it first. You will be concentrating
the beauties of nature for yourself and your friends.

„f !^ w 1, customers says the beauty about our Rock-Garden is that you have everything right under your thumb wherevonwHakecare
of It We have cerfainly found it so because the Rock-Garden is our show-window and it is most easily kept in good ZiditioranTshows fhe
greatest beauty with the least care. You will find throughout our catalogue many sniall-trrowinB evergreen nant^ThpWH,r<f^^^
allt foKr"'' ^^ ' ^'"'^ '"^ '''' Rock-Garden. We'have not roomfo mentioVthem 111 ^rl/ryfu a°elTer"stS we w^^

RARE AND NEW PLANTS

The fun of trying new things takes hold of all of iis. The possessor of a bit of land is fortunate that his new
things live and grow and Largely take care of themselves. Their newness continues season after season- the
possessor ot the oldest example of a new plant can still brag.

The European species were early brought to tliis country. After Admiral Perry's e.xi^edltion, the Japanese
plants came, as described under Japanese Yew, page 20.

Chinese plants have been brought out recently by E. H. Wilson, Assistant Director of the Arnold Arboretum
and a few otiier explorers. Northern China, central China, western China, and Tibet contain the greatest
possibilities lor the improvement of our orchards, forests, parks, home Landscapes, and llower-gardens Why?
hirst, because thej^ have a changeable climate not unlike that of the Northeastern, Middle Atlantic, and North
L.entral btates. 1 he forest trees, as ginkgo, Korean pine, Nikko fir, and Japanese ye^^• are the best recorders
ot -climate because they live the longest, and the e\Trgreen forest trees report most accurately because thev are
on the job all winter.

From time to time other unusual pLants are brought to America by explorers and travelers. It has been the
policy ol Hicks Nurseries to test these new things in our nursery and in various pLantings before offering them to
our customers. At the present time such ]Dlants are under observation, and if vou come to the nursery vou can
see them, and decide ^^ hether j'ou ^^ould like to try two or three on your own grounds.
Berberis Gagnepainii. EVERGREEN CHINESE BAR-
BERRY. A spiny evergreen with large leaves. It looks as
il It rmglu grow up as common Barberry in a tall, arcliing
slirub to probably winter-kill later. Keep it down to 2
feet; plant it in among the evergreens. You will enjoy pick-
mg It out in your winter walks. 12-18 in. high, Sl each.

B. heteropoda. TURKESTAN BARBERRY. This belongs
to the common Barberry group, bin it has much showier
berries, winch, in early fall, clnsely resemble clusters of
grapes. 2 ft. high, SI each, S7.50 for 10.

B. verruculosa. SHINING-LEAVED CHINESE EVER-
GREEN BARBERRY. It sparkles like a gem, and makes
a little dome about ! H feet liigh of bright, varnished
foliage. In summer it is light green above and silvery white
below but m winter it is rich red and bronze, beautifully
contrasting with the silvery undercolor of the leaves. In
spring It is studded with bright yellow flowers, followed by

Berberis verruculosa, continued

vioIet-black fruits in October. Use it in the rock-garden,
with heather, euonynuis, and ferns; tuck it in at the
foundation — it may not be hardy enough to stand out in the
middle of an open lawn all winter. 4-6 in. high, SI each.

Cornus Dunbari. A new hybrid of a Japanese and American
Dogwood. A small-growing tree having handsome white
flowers in July. The branches are red. 5 6 ft. high, S3 each.

C. paucinervis. Low-growing Cornel from China, with
white flowers and black berries. 3 ft. high, SI each.

Corylus Colurna. CONSTANTINOPLE HAZEL. A tree
occasionally 70 feet tall. In China there is another species
120 feet high, and in Highland Park, Rochester, there is a
tree approximately 30 feet high and 14 inches in diameter.
Plant them among your oaks and pines and group them
with the American hazel, for nut trees like to have under-
growth of shrubs to hold the leaves and keep the hot wind
from the soil. 2 ft. high, S1.50 each.

S^^WESTBVRY, LOMG IS LAN D^iW

COTONEASTER

The Cotoneasters, or
Quince Berries, are a new
group of shrubs related to
the laurel. Tliey are pros-
trate or of medium height.
The birds love their myriads
of black fruit as we do
apples. The blooms are like
miniatiue apple blossoms. A
collection of them adds new
interest to your garden.
Cotoiieaster horizontalis is
described under slirubs for
foundation planting. There
are several other plants of
the same low, chnging type
and others worthy of a place
in the shrubber}-^ with high-
bush cranberrjr and bridal
wreath spirca.

C. Dielsiana. This we have
called the "Bead berry"
because of its round, shiny
red fruits. In the autumn
it is ahiiost as showy as
Vifiurnufn dilatalwn. 2 ft.
high, SI each.

C. divaricata. One of the
hardiest Cotoneasters, having

glossy, dark green leaves. In August the berries begin to
color and will hold on all through the winter unless the birds
get them. This Cotoneaster is one of those recommended
by the Arnold Arboretum. 2-3 ft. high, SI each.

C. Zabellii. Mr. John Dunbar, Assistant Superintendent of
Parks, Rochester, N. Y., thinks this is the handsomest of
all hardy Cotoneasters. It is not a rank-growing plant, but
its branches have a gracefid, drooping habit. The dark red
fruit and silky leaves will distinguish it from the others.
2 ft. high, SI. 50 each.

Deutzia magnifica. WHITE DEUTZIA. When this
Deutzia is in llowcr it is completely covered with the greatest
profusion of pure white flowers. 2—3 ft. high, $1 each.

Enkianthus carapanulatus, or Japanese Bellflower Tree has dainty
little flowers like this in iris-time. This may be new to you, but there are
fifty more equally pretty things that you can discover in the Hicks Nursery,
of which the stock and the space in this catalogue do not permit a picture.
You are welcome, as mentioned on the aeroplane picture on page 1, to go
around the nursery at any time, pick flowers where they are plentiful,
or foliage to remember them by, and decide what is good enough for
your garden. If it is after hours when there is no salesman on the grounds,
jfabel them, write us what block they are in, and they are yours.

Cotoneaster horizontalis. This cut hardly shows its real beauty but it
will give you an idea of its value as a ground-cover or as a covering on
a bank. Its greatest beauty is in its multitude of handsome red berries
which hang on until late in the winter and are food for the birds.

Elsholtzia Stauntonii.
HEATHER MINT. Makes a

round bush about 2 feet high, with spikes of lavender
flowers in late summer. Sprays of flowers are more like .
heather or speedwell than like our mint and peppermint.
It blooms a long time, making a useful addition to the
flower-garden or shrubbery. 2 yrs. old, SI each.

Enkianthus campanulatus. JAPANESE BELLFLOWER
TREE. The superintendent of our propagating depart-
ment said that this lifted our collection out of the ordinary
and won the prize at the show of the International Garden
Club. It is a beautiful shrub in autumn. Being a close
relative of the swamp blueberry, it has brilliant orange and
red foliage. In June it is decked with pink and yellow bells.
Add it to your collection of azaleas, sorrel tree, or A ?i(/ro/7ieda
arborea, which it closely resembles. 1-2 ft. high, SI .25 each.

Euonymus Bungeanus. JAPANESE SPINDLE TREE.
A little tree about the size of the dogwood, or smaller,
thickly hung with pink seed-pods which open in autumn
and hang out scarlet seeds for the birds. See illustration,
page 22 (colored illustration of £"»onir;u(s radicals vcgctus),
4-5 ft. high, SI. 50 each.

Evodia hupehense. Belongs to the Toothache Tree family.
One of the small-growing flowering trees recently introduced
from northern China. Yellowish white flowers. 4 ft. high,
SI. 50 each, SIO for 10.

Forsythia intermedia spectabilis. Said by experts to be
superior to the older species. 3 ft. high, SI each, S7.50 for 10.

Halesia Carolina tnonticola. SILVER BELL. The old
varieties of this grew like a grei' birch, with several stems,
but this has a straight trunk, like other trees, and it reaches
a height of 90 feet in the Appalachian Mountains. 3-4 ft.

Hamamelis mollis. CHINESE WITCH-HAZEL, This
Chinese variety and the Japanese and the Missouri Witch-
Hazels are the only winter-blooming small trees we have.
The showy yellow flowers and round woolly leaves are very
different from our native fall-flowering Witch-hazel. 1 J-^
ft. high, S2.50 each.

H. yernalis. MISSOURI WITCH-HAZEL. In 1916 the
discoverer of this species pulled U]5 two hundred plants for
us in the Missouri River bottoms. Its flowers have a purple
center and very distinct fragrance. 2-3 ft. high, SI each.

Lonicera Standishii. STANDISH'S HONEYSUCKLE.
This will give you the first fragrant flowers in March and
April. In a mild winter, it will hold some of its leaves
through the whole season. 2-3 ft. high, 75 cts. each.

Malus Arnoldiana. ARNOLD'S CRAB-APPLE. The
rose-colored flowers of this variety are much larger than
those of the Japanese Crab-Apple. The yellow fruit is
also larger. 4-5 ft. high, SI. 50 each, $10 for 10.

AJV/RSERIES

Morus acidosa. CHINESE
MULBERRY. Man y
people remember the Mul-
berry Trees growing around
old farmhouses, and may
have heard of Mulberry
pies, but the average person
remembers them as too
sweet to be appetizing.
3-4 ft. high, SI each,
S7.50 for 10.

Philadelphus Magdalense.
SYRINGA-MOCK OR-
ANGE, One of the new

white-flowered varieties.
3-4 ft. high, SI each,
S7.50 for 10.

Rosa Hugonis. FATHER HUGO
Big or little tree with pure yellow,
over 2 inches in diameter, in May.
S2.50 each, S22.50 for 10.

Sorbaria arborea glabrat^. A tall-growing shrub that
will gi\'e you flowers in July. Plant it as a background for
the smaller-growing spireas, deutzias, etc. 3-4 ft. high,
SI. 50 each.

Stuartia Pseudo-Camellia. FALSE CAMELLIA. This
is the rarest plant we have, and there are onlj' a few. Its
camcIlia-like, yellowish white flowers have something the
fragrance of orange blossoms. Flowers in July. 4 ft. high,
S5 eacfi.

Styrax Obassia. This resembles the Slyrax japonica de-
scribed on page 33. Has round leaves 3 inches across. It
occasionally winter-kills but springs up again. 2 ft. high,
SI each.

Symplocos paniculata. TURQUOISE BERRY. Tliere
is much to be learned from old places, old nurseries, and
old cemeteries. Kissena Park, Flushing, contains the
Turquoise Berry, the Chinese Christmas berry, or photinia,
turquoise-blue vines, and Japanese bittersweet, remnants
from the old Parsons' Nursery. In autumn it is gay
with the fruit of these four. The birds first strip the
Turquoise Berry. It has unique robin's egg or sky-blue
berries which last two to three weeks in September It
makes a shrub about 5 feet high; white flowers in June.
3 ft. high, S3 each.

ocos, or Turquoise Berry.

New music is welcome, if harnionious.

We re-introduced this after finding it in

Parson's Nursery, Flushing, which now belongs

the Park Department of New York City. Add

one to your collection.

Syringa reflexa. The Arnold Arboretum calls this one of the
most promising of all the Lilacs introduced during the last
twenty years. Pink flowers and carmine buds. 2-3 ft.
high, SI. 50 each.

S. pekinensis. CHINESE TREE LILAC. At Kissena
Park, Flushing, L. I., you will find a tree of this one foot in
dianieter and 20 feet wide. It has healthy foliage and large
panicles of white blossoms just after the Common Lilac.
Unfortunately, the perfume is that of California privet and
not of the Lilac. 3-4 ft. high, SI. 50 each.

S, Swegnizowii. CHINESE LILAC. The Arnold Arboretum
has rated this first of the four best Chinese Lilacs recently
introduced. Dr. Sargent says that it blooms freely every
year, and the flowers are produced in great profusion.
Ihey are flesh-colored, changing nearly to white as they
open. 3-4 ft. high, SI. 50 each.

S- Wolfii. CHINESE LILAC. This is described in the
Arnold Arboretum Bulletin as a native of Alongoiia or
northern Korea. It was introduced in 1906 and as yet is
little known. The large clusters of violet-purple flowers
are gomg to make this one of the handsomest of the late-
flowering Lilacs. 2-3 ft. high, SI each.

Teucrium Chamaedrys. GERMANDER. A little rock- or
cover-plant about 6 inches high, with very dark green
leaves, making a solid mat which you can use for borders,
covering banks, or a big area in the garden. Has bright
rose-colored flowers. 3-in. pots, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Viburnum Wrightii. This was named for the botanist of
the Perry expedition to Japan. No berry-bearing shrub
quite equals it for abundance and showiness of its fruit.
2 ft. high, S2 each.

Xanthoxylum schinifolium. CHINESE TOOTHACHE

TREE. A big, round, compact shrub, 4 to 6 feet high,
thickl\- set with the sharpest prickles. Put it as you would
the Japanese Barberry, where you want to prevent people
crowding through your shrubbery and making a path.
Sometimes you want to make it a little difhcult to trespass
and gather your beach plums, hazel-nuts, or azaleas. We
can show you quite a list of plants to act as a protective
hedge. The principal beauty is the clusters of shiny brown
seeds in autumn. Someone said they have the perfume of
paregoric. 2-3 ft. high, S1.50 each, SIO for 10.

Viburnum dilatatum blossoming in June. Cream-white flowers
contrasting with the very dark, dense foliage. Still a rare plant in too
many gardens.

MAKE PLANTS YOUR HOBBY

You don't have to get them all at one time.
In fact, the most enjoymeyit can be bad by add-
ing a group irhenever you feel like it. Most
of these things can be bad in small sizes in
pots at any time. If you are interested in
rockeries, you ought to add the Cotoneasters
and Elsboltzia. It is just as easy to groiv rare
plarits as it is the common ones, and there is
a great deal more satisfaction.

Bank along drive, at Hewlett, L, I., composed largely of the various climbing Roses. People are just beginning to wake up to tlie possibilities
of the Rose in landscape planting. Even though your place may appear completely planted, and you have settled down to a complacent, let-alone
policy with shrubbery and trees and grass, you can find a new means of expressing your ideals through these Roses, Let us help you. We have
several hundred well-established plants in pots which you can plant at any time, even in full bloom. They bear red seed vessels in winter and
help the valuable insect-eating birds.

ROSES AND CLIMBING ROSES

Everybody loves Roses, and the slogan of the American Rose Society, "A rose for eveiy home," is a worthy
ideal which you can carry out through the Hicks Nurseries. You can come any time and pick out some Roses,
take them Itome with you in pots, or leave an order for the spring and fall planting season. They are guaranteed
to grow satisfactorily.

Witliout going into technical details, Roses may be grouped as follows:

I. Hybrid Teas, (HT.) Similar to the kind you i>uy from the greenhouse. They bloom all summer. Protect
during the winter by mounding up tlie plants one foot high; after freezing, mulch witli strawy manure or leaves
to keep frozen. Enrich the groimd cither with bone-meal or manure and hoe thoroughly. They like clay soil,
but that is scarce on Long Island, so make up with bone-meal, manure, hoeing, and water.

IL Hybrid Perpetuals. (HP.) These bear big, double Roses and grow into bushes 3 feet high. They bloom
freely in June and frequently produce a smaller crop in late summer. They need the same cidture but are hardier
than the Hybrid Teas.

in. Shrub or Wild Roses, as Rugosa rose, Sweetbriar, Father Hugo's Rose, and the wild Roses j^ou see on
dry hills, roadsides, and swamps. These arc suitable for extensive landscape planting for (lowers, berries, decoration,
thick growth of twigs, and thorns to hold the blowing Iea^'es, thus feeding themseb'cs and the trees and shrubs
with them.

IV. Climbing Roses, These are particularly happy on Long Island, as they are as much at home there as
tiieir relative, the running blackberrj', covering sandy fields, climbing over trees or buildings.

The New York, New Ha\en & Hartford Railroad Co. (at Mount Vernon), the Pennsylvania (at Merion Sta-
tion), and the Long Island (at Kew and elsewhere) have decorated and are holding railroad banks with climbing
Roses. This is one of the few plants which will take care of themselves and sa^'e money. You can apply the
same idea to fences, bluffs, and ravines, and climbing Roses make a good hedge A\hcn trained on a fence. Their
use for tennis back-stops and poultry-yard fences is well known. A Rose-garden or ilower-garden is frequently
surrounded by a pergola decorated with climbing Roses. At Doublcday, Page &. Co.'s plant. Garden City, N. Y.,
a hot, sunny area is translormcd into shaded walks by means of rose-arbors. Climbing Roses do not need to
climb; if left alone they make the most efl'ective shrubs. They are frequently used on pillars, and can be trans-
formed into standard Roses by staking up one stem.

Two-year, fleld-grown plants, pruned and ready for planting, 75 cts. each, $6 for 10

Delight. Bright crimson flowers which have an aciniirable Excelsa. Almost a glorified Crimson Rambicr. The foliage

background of glossy green foliage. Blooms quite early is dark, glossy green and entirely free from mildew. Thi

in the season.

Dorothy Perkins, Pink. Perhaps the most popular of all
Climbing Roses, This variety makes a strong growth and
produces blooms in the greatest profusion. The flowers are
light pink in color, fragrant, and very double in form.

Dorothy Perkins, White. With the exception of the white
flowers, it is the same in all particulars as the preceding
variety. Makes a lovely ^contrast when planted with the
pink sort.

Dr. W. Van Fleet. A splendid pink Rose, with a pointed bud,
opening into a double flower. It makes a strong growth,
and has splendid foliage. Dr. Van Fleet developed this
variety in his jjlant-breeding establishment at Little Silver,
N.J.

flow^ers are carried in large trusses and in color are the most

brilliant sc£irlet-crimson imaginable.
Hiawatha. In habit of growth similar to Excelsa, with

light glossy green foliage. The flowers are single, deep

intense crimson in color, or shading to pure white at the

base.
La Fiamma. The name describes the color, which is brilliant

fiame, an unusual shade in Roses. Tiie clusters of bloom

are extremely large and carried on long stems. Perfectly

harcly and an extremely rapid grower.
Lucile. The blooms of this variety are full clouble, carried

in large clusters on strong branches. In color they are a

delicate flesh-pink, tinged with rosy salmon at the base of

the petals.

HICKS A^VRSERIES

ROSES

Mrs. M. H. Walsh. Pure milky white Roses are borne in
large clusters. Many experts consider this tlie finest white
climbing Rose, and certainly it is exceptionally beautiful.
Awarded a gold medal by the American Rose Society.

Silver Moon. Another of Dr. Van Fleet's introductions.
The blooms are extra large, frequently reaching a tliameter
of 5 inches; single or semi-double, with a mass of bright
yellow stamens surrounded by pure waxen white petals.
In addition to their beauty they arc attractive because of a
faint fragrance. Hardy and vigorous; the glossy foliage
seems entirely immune from disease.

Snowdrift. Snowy white flowers of medium size are produced
in large clusters over a long period. Makes a vigorous
growth.

Troubadour. Introduced by the late M. H. Walsh, of Woods
Hole, Mass. The flowers are full tlouble, bright red shading
to maroon and carried in large clusters, each spray niiiking
a perfect bouquet. Like most of the climbing Roses the
foliage is dark, glossy green, and not subject to mildew.

Rosa Wichuraiana. A trailing Rose from China, with
creamy white flowers and golden stamens. The perfume
is that of the Tea Rose. The leaves arc' small and glossy
and make an impenetrable mat about one foot deep. In
winter it is beautiful bright green, set off with crimson fruit.
Dry, sandy ground does not prevent its making gooci growth,
and therefore it can be used on the pine barrens and on the
sand-dunes.

Tlie limits of this catalogue do not permit an exten-
sive showing of Roses, but you can satisfy some of
your Rose-luinger at the Hicks Nurseries. Tliere are a
number of bush Roses under Section II that we have
not put in the catalogue, but they are available for
general landscape planting.

HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES.

American Beauty. Crimson.
Frau Karl Druschki. Snow-
white
Magna Charta. Rosc-jjink.

Sl.25 each, $10 for 10.
Paul Neyron. Pink.
Ulrich Brunner. Cherry-
red.

HYBRID TEA ROSES. $1.25 each, $10 for 10.

Betty. Coppery rose.

Etoile de France. Red.

Grange Colombe. Ivory-

white, salmon-yellow center.

Gruss an Teplitz. Scarlet.

Jonkheer J. L. Mock. Pink.

Lady Ashtown. Rose-pink.

Lady Alice Stanley. Coral-
l^ink.

Mme. Jules Bouche.

White, shaded primrose,
Mme. Ravary. Orange-

yellow.
Mrs. A. R. Waddell. Deep

apricot, orange-salmon.
Ophelia. Light sabnon-

fle_sh.
Radiance. Carmine-pink.
Soleil d'Or. Orange-red.

VINES

Years ago vines sold from the nursery were largely confined to provide shade for the porch. Now they are
used to carpet the ground, to decorate tree trunks, to climb over trees and shrubs, to liold steep banks, for hedges,
to feed and protect birds, to cover walls, to make narrow screens, and in numerous other ways. WJien you think of
something vines can do for you, come or send to the nursery. We usually Iia\e some in pots tliat you can jjlant
any time. In addition to tlie vines listed here, there is euonymus on page 24, and climbing roses on page 37.
Ampelopsis quinquefolia. VIRGINIA CREEPER. Have Hedera helix. ENGLISH IVY. The brilliant March sun

you ever noticed, on Long Island, tall tree trunks, looking
like burning pillars of fire before you thought the summer
was over? It is the Virginia Creeper. This vine has five
leaflets and black berries, while the "poison ivy vine,"
gro\ving in similar situations, has Ijut three leaflets and white
berries. You can add it to shrubbery, to give touch of color,
without taking up much room, or you can let it climb up
cedars and pines, forming graceful draperies in both summer
and autumn. If you have a locust grove, planted for tree-
nails and fence-posts you can relieve the monotony with
Virginia Creeper. On the sand-dunes, a carpet of Virginia
Creeper helps the beach grass and bavberry to check wind-
erosion. 2-3 ft. high, 50 cts. each, S4 for 10, $25 per 100.

A. tricuspidata Veitchii. JAPANESE IVY. The vine so
often seen on brick buildings. It has three-lobed leaves and
black berries. 1 ft. high, 1 yr. old, 30 cts. each, S2 for 10,
S15 per 100.

Clematis paniculata. This vine is literally a snow-bank of
little white stars in August and September. It is almost too
rampant for a porch vine unless primed. White is always
welcome and this will fit in any of the places mentioned in
the introduction. 2 yrs. old, 50 cts. each, S4.50 for 10.

Euonymus. See page 24,

of this latitucie sonietimes burns the leaves and occasionaMy
kills back the branches, but you can enjoy its beauty in
shady places on tree trunks, on the north side of buildings,
and carpeting the ground. Potted plants, 60 cts. each,
S5 for 10.

Jasminum nudiflorum. JASMINE. A vine very rarelj'
seen on Long Island, but should be commonly used, for it
is early or occasionally winter-blooming. In the latitude of
Philadelphia, golden domes 5 feet high are frequently seen
in early March. On Long Island, as mentioned under
Japanese pussy willow and (Vagrant honeysuckle, pp. 31, 32,
this Jasmine blooms any time during the winter when there
are ten days of warm weather. You can bring it in the house
and it will do the same. 2-3 ft. high, SI each.

Lonicera japonica Halliana. HALL'S HONEYSUCKLE.
This is thoroughly at home in the woods, along liedge-
rows and road-banks where the birds scatter the seed about
and it comes up in patches. The foliage remains green until
midwinter, or if grown on the ground, until spring. The
hummingbirds and ciiildren like the honey, and you will
like the fragrance in June and autunui. It is often the
cheapest thing to cover a bank, where they may be Jiiixed
with climbing roses, Virginia creeper, bittersweet, and low
shrubs. The ability of Japanese Honeysuckle to take com-
plete possession of the ground results in economy of main-
tenance. 2 ft. high, 75 cts. each, S6 for 10.

Tecoma radicans. TRUMPET CREEPER. A European
visitor complimented the artistic taste of the farmeis of
Maryland who decorate their fences and po'-is with this
vine and its large crimson flowers. The Trumpet Creeper
is native there and sometimes the flowers are 6 inches in
length, and the vines reach the tops of tall locusts.
You can use it on a post in the shrubbery or on a building.
The flowers are shaped like a fireman's trumpet, about 5
inches long. 132-2 ft. high, 50 cts. each.

Wisteria sinensis. CHINESE WISTERIA. Those who
have a big sweep of Wisteria bloom will point to it with
pride and perhaps bring out a Lumiere color plate to
demonstrate its beauty all the .year. It is too vigorous for
planting on a house unless clo.sely restrained. Wisteria
can be trained up as a standard, or small tree, and it ijlooms
more profusely then because it has not been allowed to
climb. Now the plants are available in quantity at low
rates. You can plant ten or one hundred on a sanrl bluff
along the border of the woodland, on a fence, on the sand-
dunes, or among the shridjs.

Height Each

1 ft SO 25

3-6 ft 75

100

S2 00

S15 00

6 00

50 00

-®^^ GARDEN FLOWERS

Whjr do yon grow flowers? Because you love color and fragrance.

There is color in all classes of plants — annuals, perennials, shrubs, and broad-leaved evergreens and trees. In
the perennials or hardy garden llowers are found the most color.

To help jrou get the most color, arranged in the most beautiful way, is the object of this Department.

Ho'w grow flowers?

Take any bit of ground, dig in decayed leaves or other decaying vegetable matter, as grass, weeds, salt hay, or
manure; add wood ashes or commercial fertilizers. Select your favorite plants from this catalogue, or, better, call
at the nursery and get them. When you plant them, space them from 8 inches to 2 feet apart.

COLOR HARMONY AND SUMMER PLANTING .

We trjr to name the colors accurately, ajid in a previous edition of this catalogue there is a chart adapted from
Landscape Arcbilecture, giving color, season, and height. Send for it. The joy of gardening is that it is never
finished — never perfect. The convenience of the Hicks system of planting gardens all summer is that you can
come to the nursery, see the colors you hke, pick out the plants you desire, take them home in pots or ^^•ith a ball
of earth, and make the color harmony in your garden just what you wish. Your own plants you can shift around.
One ladj^ said, "I water the plant I am going to move and towards evening dig a hole for it, fill the hole with water,
take up the plant with a s]}adeful of earth, and it does not wilt," This procedure will succeed with the great ma-
jority of hardy perennials. We will tell you which have long, coarse roots and need to have a trench 18 inches
deep and a ball of earth in burlap, like an evergreen.

The standard of jjcrfcction in flo^\'er-gardens may be one by the side of a little cottage or farmhouse where the
flowers show that they are loved. Or it may be a garden on a big estate under expert personal direction of a land-
sca]je architect and gardener with a staff of expert under-gardeners who prepare the ground and have a succession
of plants in greenhouse and frames to replace those that have faded.

We believe it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the aim of Hicks Nurseries to help you have a
garden that is 80 to 90 per cent of the utmost perfection possible. It will need knowledge, perseverance, and
work on your part. It is not all in a show-case, ready to hand over to you complete. We can plan out your border,

Garden of Mrs. Robert Bacon, Westbury, L. I. Martha Brookes Hutcheson, New York, Landscape Architect.

Grass paths, box-bordered beds, hemlock hedge for background, cedars for height, arches for roses, shrubs for flowers, and berries for
birds — all show good design, good care, and enjoyment. The painting on page 17 shows the large maples at the west end of the garderu The
paintings on pages 8 and 41 depict scones in a valley east of the house, and the Azaleas shown on page 28 are to the southwest.

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HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS ^

but it will not staj' as jjlanncd — you will iiave the most fun if you add, substract, and rearrange all the year. It
is possible, by mulching in tiie early winter, to keep out the frost and dig over your borders in winter, when your
neighbors will think there is nothing to be done to improve the place and no exercise to be taken. It is hard work
to remember, and unless you keep a garden memorandum and a plan, it is impracticable to carry out your improve-
ments. Therefore, the Hicks system of doing it now, planting in bloom, will enable you to save a year.

Plants from Hicks Nurseries are guaranteed to grow satisfactorily, or we replace them free. We hope you will
report to us your success or failure, so we can j^ass on the knowledge.

In planning out your (lower-borders, make them wide. Mr, Walter Parish, superintendent of the Hardy Garden
Flower Department, Hicks Nurseries, says, "People make a mistake in i^lanting little narrow borders 3 to 4 feet
-wide. The}'^ cannot get a sweep of color, and after one thing is out of bloom, there is not enough room for other
plants. Make the borders 8 feet wide." Plant ten, twenty, or fifty of a kind, if you have room. As one thing
finishes blooming, come to the nursery and crowd in another. The rampant growing things can be dug up and
replanted on a smaller area, the surplus planted elsewhere or given away. This dividing and replanting of many
things can be done just after they bloom without waiting until fall. The spreading perennials extend by stolons or
underground shoots, and the center of the old plant may die out. These shoots can be replanted in summer and
he ^^'ell established for the next year.

NATURALIZING

Besides the perennial borders there are several other uses for plants in this Department. Naturalizing or planting
among the grass and shrubs is an art but little developed in this country. Mr. Wm. Robinson, author of "The
English Flower-Gardcn," and manj^ other garden books and periodicals, has clearly set forth the principles for this
type of gardening. It is based on matching plants and situations so that nature does most of the work. The plants
take care of themselves. There should be a sweep of Daffodils in the grass, and the grass should not be cut until the
foliage of the Daffodil has manufactured bulbs for the next year. Among the shrubs, trees, and perennials, bulbs,
llowers, and ctjver-plants are plants for sweeps of color. You may not know of many of such gardens, but you
can start one. We will direct you to literature, examples, and help you. Bring a plan or photograph and tell us
where you are; we will probably know what the soil is. We can tell you what to plant. You can take home a load
and come for more next week.

ACHILLEA Ptarmica fl.-pl., The Pearl. The rather small,
double white (lowers, resembling tliose of the bridnl wreath,
are borne all summer, in fine clusters on long stems and are
excellent for cutting. Grows 1}^ ft. high.

A. tomentosa. Flat heads of yellow flowers in June. A
pretty plant for the front of the border or rockery. Grows
1 foot high.

AJUGA reptans. Bugle Flower. The ideal ground-cover.
Use it as an edging in front of the herbaceous borders and
as a ground-cover in the shade. Bears spikes of blue llowers.

ALTHEA • Hollyhock

Its stately s]iires, 6 feet high, include white, clear
pink, salmon, scarlet, and blackish-maroon and are
borne in July.

Double. The flowers of tFie double Hollyhocks are like paper
rosettes. They are charming in the walled garden.

Single. Nothing surpasses the old-fashioned single HoIIn-
hock.

ALYSSUM saxatile compactum. Golden Tuft. These
look like little mounds of gold when in bloom in April and
Ma>'. Used for bordering with Iris pumila and white or
lilac moss pink.

ANCHUSA italica, Dropmore. Alkanet. A flower that
ranks with the delphinium for producing tall masses of blue.
It will continue to bloom from June to September il not
perniiltetl to go to seed and is fine for the back of the border.
Grows 3 to 5 feet high. See page 42.

A. italica, Opal. The same as preceding, except in color,
which is a lighter shade of blue. Use some of each.

ANEMONE japonica. Japanese Windflower, To those
who aim to have a beautiful garden for the longest possible
period, this will always appeal. The single white llowers,
3 inches across, are borne in succession from October 1 until
severe frost,

A. japonica, Queen Charlotte. A silvery pink variety.
Give all Anemones good drainage. It is recommended that
a box be placed over them in winter, to shed the melting
snow.

A. japonica, Whirlwind. Some like this because it has
double flowers. Pure white.

A. hupehensis. Chinese Windflower. A pink Windflower
from western China. One of the newer introductions which
Anemone japonica will prove interesting to the collector.

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page are 30 cts. each, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

Isabella Pendleton, Landscape Architect, describes the picture on page 41 in March Country Lije. "One enjoys the
careful detail of the planting in Mrs. Bacon's spring border. The sweep of t!ie yellow Doronicum on one side of ti)e path
is balanced on the otiier by yellow Columbine and Iris. The deep purple Iris increases the brilliance of the orange Tulip
Fred Moore, and the salmon-pink A/.alea Kaempjeri. In order to tie the whole bouquet together, the edge is planted with
mauve Phlox siibuhtta and Iberis sempennrens. It has unusual charm, partly because it is screened in on both sides with
green; then, too, there is an attractive mystery about a winding path."

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HARDY PERENNIALS

Aquilegia

ANTHEM IS tinctoria. Marguerite. A compact

bushy plant, covered witli yellow flowers through-
out the summer. It will do well in poor soils.

AQUILEGIA chrysantha. Columbine. A yellow
variety with long spurs. The drop of honey at
tlie tip feeds the hummingbirds on their way from
the tropics in May.

A. cserulea Helenae. Large blue and white flow-
ers. Aquilegias seem to thrive in either sun or
shade. If you have a woodland path, give them
a trial.

A. vulgaris nivea grandiflora. A tall-growing,
long-spurred, white variety with stiff stems.
Fine for massing and for cut-flowers. Grows
2 feet high.

ARABIS alpina. Alpine Rock Cress. A low-
growing, clainty plant, displaying a mass of white
at the border's edge in April. Excellent for the
rock-garden.

ARMERIA plantaginea. Thrift; Sea Pink. A

grass-like plant, suitable for bordering paths.
Thrives at the seaside; also good for the rock-
garden. Bright red llowers.

ARTEMISIA lactiflora. White Mugwort. In our nursery this gives the finest sFiow
of feathery white flowers in August and early September, If your garden lacks color
in late summer, plant Artemisia. A handsome cut-flower.

ASTER alpinus. A low-growing Aster; good for the rock-
garden. Light blue llowers in ALiy and June,

A., Climax. One of the most desirable on account of the
large lavender llowers. Grows 3 to 4 feet
high and blooms in August and September.

A., Namur. Soft pink, single flowers, quite
similar to St. Egwin.

A. Mons. A hybrid of our wild Asters.
Large, single deep rose fiowers.

A. novae-angliae. New England Aster.
The Asters and goldenrods are an impor-
tant element in the American autumn
landscape. Here is your 0]3portunity to
carry out your ideas of natural planting.
The plants grow tall, witFi flowers borne on
long stems. Violet-purple and pink.

A. novae-anglise roseus. A pink New
England Aster that will brighten your
whole garden in late September.

A., St. Egwin. Dwarf pink-flowered variety.
Plant in front of taller growing kinds.

A. subcseruleus. This has a dense tuft of
leaves from which flower-stems are thrown
up about a foot high in midsummer, bear-
ing violet-blue flowers 2 inches across.

A. tataricus. Stems 6 feet high, bearing
azure-blue flowers in October,

BAPTISIA australis. False Indigo. Rather a bushy plant
and very showy, with its long racemes of swect-pea-shaped
indigo-blue flowers. Blooms in June and July and grows
3 to 4 feet high.

Aster, Climax

fill

Anchusa

CERASTIUM tonnentosum. Snow-in-Sum-

mer. A low-growing plant, with silvery gray
foliage. Good for carpeting or bordering. Use
it freely in the rock-garden. White flowers in
June and July. See pa;j;e 43,

CHELONE Lyonii. Turtlehead. A poor name
for a good plant. A native of the Virginia
mountains, the Turtlehead thrives in moist,
shady spots. Deep pink flowers.

CHRYSANTHEMUM, Pompon. The Chrysan-
themum is one of the standbjs for a fine show
of llowers from early October to frost. The
flowers vary from 1 to 3 inches. To get good
results, come to the nursery in summer and
early autumn and pick out plants just coming
into bloom to replenisfr .\'our garden. The Long
Island season, without frost, favors them.

BELLIS perennis. The dainty English Daisy
niche in every garden. Pink and while flowers.

BOLTONIA asteroides. False Chamomile. Sniall, daisy-
like flowers tiiroughout the summer.
Grows 4 to 5 feet high. Fine for natural
plantings or wild gardens.

B. latisquama nana. Dwarf False
Chamomile. Compact, aster-like blos-
soms through the summer and autumn.
Grows 2 feet high.

CAMPANULA carpatica. Carpathian
Harebell. Dense tufts of leaves from
which numerous, broad blue, sa[\'er-
shaped flowers are thrown uj) singly on
wiry stems about 8 inches high. A
sjiiendid plant for bordering beds.

C. Medium. Canterbury Bells. The
best-known of all the Campanulas, and
its magnificent spikes of blue, pink and
white flowers produce an effect in the
garden not equaled with any other plant.
Requires extra winter protection.

C. persicifolia grandiflora. Peach Bells.

This one of the best of the Bellflowers.

It grows 2 to 3 feet high, with large blue

or white bells, in spikes, in June and July.

Chimney Bellflower. This is the showiest

the Campanulas, growing 4 to 6 feet high.

Needs protection here in winter.

CENTAUREA montana. Corn Flower. A pretty blue va-
riety, blooming through summer. Grows 2 to 3 feet high.

C. pyramidalis

and tallest of

Alice Howell. Sing

yellow.
Edwina. Bronze.
Niza. Pink.
Niza. White.
Nordmani. White.

le; Red Riding Hood.
Single; red.
Waldo. White.
Maximum, Shasta
Daisy. Double white.

Campanula, Peach Bells

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page
are 30 cts. each, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

Diantlius, Clove Pink

^ESTBV/RY, LOMG I S LAAJ DisJa

HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS

Cerastium tomentosum. Snow-in-Summer

CONVALLARIA majalis. Lily-of-the-Valley. Tliis, wiih
the bleeding-heart and liollyhock, is always associated with
old-fashioned llower-gurdens. Nothing has ever surpassed
it in delicate fragrance.

COREOPSIS lanceolata. Brilliant yellow flowers on long,
slender stems about 2 feet higii. It blooms all summer, and
is superior in delicacy and grace to many of the yellow
flowers,

DELPHINIUM belladonna. Larkspur. With many
garden ciitlnisiasts, if a (lower is blue, it needs no further
recommendation. The Larkspur is a universal favorite.
This variety is that exquisite light blue so much esteemed
and so seldom encountered. Blooms through the summer.

D. formosum. Showy Larkspur. The towering, dark blue
spikes are always welcome. This is one of the most depend-
able Larkspurs. Grows 3 feet high or more.

D., Gold Medal Hybrid. Grown from selected seed and
bound to produce strong, handsome flower-spikes.

D. grandiflorum. Chinese Larkspur. Slender stems, 2 to
3 feet high. Flowers vary from blue to white, with long,
tapering spurs. A favorite.

DIANTHUS barbatus. Sweet William. Nothing will
yield a more solid mass of color in June than this. It is old
and popular. If you want a carpet of pretty salmon-pink
or scarlet, or a sheet of pure white or crimson, this should
be your selection.

D. barbatus. Newport Pink. This continues a great favor-
ite. A rare salmon-pink in color. We have grown it in
Large quantity, so you can have a generous sweep of color.

D. deltoides. Maiden Pink. A dwarf variety with sprays of
pink flowers. Fine for rockery as it grows but 8 inches high.

D. plurnarius semperflorens. Single Clove Pink. These
vary in color from pink to purple, white and variegated,
and are delightfully fragrant.

D., White Reserve. Hardy Pink. Nothing can take the
place of the hardy Garden Pinks. Their spicy fragrance fills
the air in May and June. They should be used liberally in
the front of the border. A dry, sunny position is preferable.
This is a very frcc-blooming wliite variety, 1 foot high.

DICENTRA spectabilis. Bleedings Heart. In spring this
is one of the earliest plants to display tup its long,
drooping racemes of delightful pink, heart-shaped flowers.
50 cts. each.

DICTAMNUS fraxinella. Gas Plant. Spikes of pink or
white flowers, borne in June and July, give off a pungent,
volatile oil wliich will burn. An upright, sturdy plant that
stays attractive all the season, like the peony and funkia.

DIGITALIS. Foxglove. The tall, dignified spikes of the
Foxglove, with the heavily spotted throat of the individual
blooms, are always charming. Valuable in the border or can
be planted freely along the wood-edge. They bloom in June.

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page are 30 cts.
each, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

ECHINOPS. Globe Thistle. Globular heads of deep
metallic blue flowers make this a showy and interesting
plant. They should be massed against the coarser-growing
plants, like helianthus.

EUPATORIUM coelestinum. Hardy Ageratum. Toward
the middle of September this is an unbroken sheet of light
blue. The flowers are like tufts of blue moss, and the long
stems make it excellent for vases. Grows 15 inches Jiigh.

ERYNGIUM amethystinum. Sea Holly. You have
probably seen the teasel with its prickly stem and head.
Here is something similar but witli a blue flower and steel-
blue stem.

FUNKIA caerulea. Day Lily. The Day Lilies improve
with age, producing more of their lovely deep blue bell-
shaped flowers every year.

F. Fortunei. Pale lilac flowers. One of the best of tlie Day
Lilies.

lancifolia. Narrow-leaved Day Lily. A mound of
healthy foliage, 1 foot high, from wliich emerge graceful
spikes of nodding lavender bells in September.

media picta. Similar to above but with lighter lavender
flowers.

ovata. Grows 2 feet high and produces its blue flowers in
June and July. Thrives in the shade.

variegata. The variegated green and white leaves make
this the showiest of all the Day Lilies.

GAILLARDIA grandiflora. Blanket Flower. Probably
nothing is better for continuous blooming from June 1. It
grows 2 feet high. The daisy-like flowers are a gorgeous
combination of orange and crimson and are excellent for
cutting.

GYPSOPHILA paniculata. Baby's Breath. Pleasing for
Its extremely delicate foliage, thickly set with tiny while
flowers. Can be used advantageously in arranging bouquets.

G. repens. This is a rock-garden plant and its creeping
stems soon make a dense carpet. Such a little plant could
hardly be expected to produce such large white flowers.

HELENIUM autumnale, Riverton Gem. Orange-bronze,

daisy-iike flowers resembling the single chrysanthemum!

Grows 3 to 4 feet high and blooms in August and September.
H. superbum. The daisy-like flowers of yellow and orange,

with yellow disc, arc produced all summer. Fine for cutting.

Grows 1 foot high.

HELIANTHUS orgyalis. Tall Sunflower. Graceful stalks,
8 feet or more high, with daisy-like (lowers of deep lemon-
yellow, with darker centers, in August.

H. rigidus. Hardy Sunflower. Large, single, golden yellow
flowers on plants 5 to 6 feet high. Splendid for cutting.

HELIOPSIS Pitcheriana. Dwarf Perennial Sunflower. A
small-growing Sunflower that thrives without any care,
even in dry soil.

Dianthus barbatus. Sweet William

HICKS AIWRSER

HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS

Lupines ought to be grown in large groups if they are to appear at
their best

HEMEROCALLIS flaya. Lemon Lily. An old standby with
briglit yellow Lilies in June and healthy foliage the rest of
the season.

H. fulva. Kwanso. Double Orange Lily. Large, double,
orange-colored flowers with deeper shadings are borne on
flower-stalks 3 feet liigh in June and July.

H. Thunbergii. Japanese Day Lily. One of the most
desirable Day Lilies, with very fragrant, lemon-yeliow
flowers, on 3-foot stems in July and August.

HEUCHERA sanguinea. Coral Bells. Each flower is the
size of the Hl.N-of-t he-valley, and is brilliant red. Blooms
during the dry, midsummer season,

HIBISCUS Moscheutos. Marsh Mallow. Along the
edges of the salt marshes, this is the largest wild flower of
this region — great hollyhock-like blossoms, 6 inches across,
of cerise-pink. It is one of the handsomest of all perennial
plants if massive cflects are desired. Although native of
damp ground, it thri\'es in tlie garden or shrubbery and
grows 4 feet high. Blooms in August.

H., Giant Red. Red Mallow. Similar to preceding, except-
ing the flowers are red. A very showy variety growing 6
feet high.

IBERIS sempervirens. Evergreen Candytuft. This may
not be as showy as the annual kinds, but it has the advan-
tage of being permanent while they are only temporary.
It is almost evergreen and a good rock plant.

KNIPHOFIA Pfitzeri. Red-Hot-Poker Plant. Showy
spikes of orange-scarlet blooms during the summer. Very
striking. Grows 2 feet high.

GERMAN IRIS (ins germanka)
S. Standards. F. Falls.

Aurea. Rich chrome-yellow; large and fine.
Beauty. White, pale blue veins.
Beethoven. S. lavender; F. purple.
Black Prince. S. deep velvety blue; F. purple.
Darius. S. yellow; F. lilac, white margin.
Dr. Bernice. S. bronze; F. crimson; large; beautiful.
Florentina alba. Creamy white, faintly flushed lavender.

Blooms early in the season. Fine for cutting.
Her Majesty. S. rosy pink; F. veined crimson. Exquisite.
Honorabilis. S. golden yellow; F. mahogany-brown,
Jacquesiana. S. bright coppery-crimson; F. nmroon.

GERMAN IRIS, continued

Mme. Chereau. White, frilled edges of clear blue.

Mrs. H. Darwin. S. white; F. violet at base. Free-flowering.

Pallida Daltnatica. S. lavender; F. deeper lavender. Su-
perb. 3 feet.

Purple Queen. Purple.

Queen of May. Lovely soft rose-Iilac. 23-^ feet,

Rebecca. S. bulf; F. rich brown.

Rhein Nixe. S. pure white; F. deep blue, white edge.

Sappho. S. white, frilled lilac; F. white, lilac at base. A fine
variety.

DWARF IRIS

Flavescens. This is a yellow Iris growing 2}^ feet high.
Blooms in May and June.

Pseudacorus. Common Water Flag. Useful in moist
ground. Yellow, shaded orange. May and June. 3 feet.

JAPANESE IRIS

Gold Bound. Double; white.

Mt. Hood. Light blue, shaded darker.

Pyramidalis. Double; light blue, veined blue.

Robert Craig. Grayish white with veins of violet.

Ternpleton. Double, lavender mottled red and pink.

Victor. Double; white, veins of purple in center of bloom.

SIBERIAN IRIS

Orientalis. Blue. 15 cts. each, SI for 10, S8 per 100.
Snow Queen. White. 15 cts. each, SI for 10, $8 per 100.

LILIES

$1 each, $7.50 for 10, $60 per 100
Lilies prefer shady situations where the ground may be

kept cool and moist by a mulch of leaves and the protection

of other plants. Plant the bulbs about 6 to 8 inches deep,

with a handful of sand under each bulb to provide drainage.

Lilium auratum. Large, white flowers, spotted with crim-
son, iiaving a bright yellow band through each petal.

L. candidum. The well-known Madonna Lily. Pure white
and extremely beautiful. Plant it early in the fall for best
results.

L. Henryi. Reddish yellow flowers marked with dark brown
spots.

L. regale. A new variety which seems certain to attain great
popularity because of its attractive coloring. The white
flowers are shaded with pink and have canary-yellow centers.

L. speciosum rubrum. Plant this in a favorable situation
and it will last for years. The white flowers have a deep
crimson band on each center; their large size and intense
fragrartce make them very attractive.

L. speciosum album. Same as preceding variety, except
that tlie blooms are pure white, with a greenish band
running through the center of each petal.

LIATRIS pycnostachya. Blazing Star. Tall spikes of
purple flowers in July. This is a native of the southwestern
prairies and is perhaps the showiest of the genus.

L. scariosa. All of the Blazing Stars are valuable for summer
bloom. This one has smaller spikes of purple flowers than
the others and should be planted in quantity.

L. spicata. Gay Feather. The Gay Feather is native on
the plains of Long Island ancl ranks next to the Viola pediila
in the beauty of its purple flowers.

LINUM perenne. Flax. Pale blue flowers from May to
August on plants 1 ^2 feet high.

LUPINUS polyphyllus. Lupine. Wheel-shaped foliage,
with spikes of wisteria-like blue and white flowers from
June until September, characterize this plant sufficiently
to suggest its use. It gro^vs wild in dry grouncl and reaches
a height of 2^2 feet.

LYCHNIS chalcedonica. Campion. The orange-scarlet
flowers are borne in flat heads on stems 2 to 3 feet high in
July and August,

L. Viscaria. German Catchfly. This makes a showy mass
in June. The rosy red flowers are like miniature clusters of
roses, borne on 1-foot stems, emerging from thick tufts of
evergreen foliage.

LYTHRUM roseum. Loosestrife. Native in moist ground
but at home in almost any location. Has showy spikes of
rosy purple flowers from July to September, on 3-ft. plants.

MONARDA didyma. Bee Balm; Oswego Tea. Very
brilliant salvia-like flowers from June to September. The
hummingbirds hover in ecstasies over it.

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page are 30 cts,
each, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

:#|^>yES TB\7RY, LONG ISLA NDtsJj

HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS

If it should ever be necessary to discard perennials in landscapes and gardens, the Peonies ought to be the last to go. They are indispensable. Mr.
Farr, the famous grower, says, "There are no bad Peonies — only degrees of goodness." Our list is not large, but it represents goodness

NEPETA Mussinii. A good plant for the rock-garden.
Mauve-colored flowers in April and May. Plants 8 inches
iiigh. A mat of gray, catnip-like foliage.

OPUNTIA vulgaris. Prickly Pear. Tliis makes great mats
of foliage in the sand on the shore, with large, waxy, lemon
(lowers in midsummer, followed by interesting pear-sliaped
fruits. It will look at home in the rock-garden.

PENTSTEMON barbatus. Beard Tongue. Flowers
resemble in color and sliape small iire-crackers and are
borne on a stem 2 to 3 feet high in July and August.

PHLOX PANICULATA

Baron Van Dedem. Very large flowers and trusses. Red.

Elizabeth Campbell. Pale pink.

Eugene Danzanvilliers. Lavender.

Europa. Large while ilowers with crimson eye.

Ferdinand Cortez. Deep crimson, overlaid co|>pery bronze.

A tall, strong grower.
Gen. Van Heutz. Intensely brilliant salmon-red, witii a

white eye. Sure to please.
Henri Murger. White, pink eye.
Independence. Tall-growing white variety.
Jules Sandeau. Dwarf. Deep solid rose.
Le Mahdi. Blui.sh violet blooms in fine, large panicles.
Lumineaux. Extra-large flowers of soft rose, with carmine

center.
Mrs. Jenkins. Pure white. Very early.
Queen. White. Grows 2 to 3 feet high.
Rheinlander. Soft salmon-pink, deep red eye.
R. P. Struthers. Bright rosy red, crimson eye. One of the

best.

Thor. Salmon-pink with a deep red eye. Individual (lowers
are as large as a half-dollar. A rare and handsome variety.
50 cts. each, S4 for 10, S35 per 100.

PHLOX SUBULATA. Moss Pink. Here's an opportunity
to make the showiest carpet on a sunny bank in May.

Alba. White. Lilacina. Lilac. Rosea. Rose.

PAEONIA

Albert Crousse. Rose-white; fragrant. Late. $1.50 each.
Armand Rousseau. Dark violet-rose. Midseason. 75 cts.

each.
Couronne d*Or. Large, pure ^vhite (lowers, \vith a ring of

yellow stamens around a tuft of center petals. Medium

iali. Late. SI each.
Duchesse de Nemours. Medium size; pure white crown,

sulphur-white collar. Early. Fragrant. 75 cts. each.
Edutis Superba. Bright mauve-pink; very fragrant. A

strong upright grower. Blooms freely. Early. 75 cts. each.
Felix Crousse. A brilliant red, in fact, one of the best red

varieties. Strong, vigorous grower. S2 each.
Festiva Maxima. The most popular while variety. A tall,

strong, vigorous grower witii very large Ilowers. Early.

SI each.
La Tulipe. Flesh-pink, center and outer petals freely striped

with carmine. SI. 50 each.
Louis Van Houtte, Brilliant rose. S2 each.
Mme. Calot. Flesh, center darker. 75 els. each,
Mme. Ducel. Silvery pink. 75 cts. each.
Mme. Forel. Violet-rose. Late. SI each.

Mens. Dupont. White, center splashed crimson. 75 cts. ea.
Mons. Jules Elie, Pale lilac-rose. SI each.
Officinalis Rubro-plena. Brilliant crimson. This is the

ear(y-(Iowering \'ariely so common in old gardens. Usually

in bloom for Alcmorial Day. SI each.
Rubra Triumphans. Bright crimson. Strong-growing,

Midseason. 75 cts. each.
Solfatare. Cream. Fragrant. Midseason. SI each.
Triomphe de I'Exposition de Lille. Very large, pale pink

(lowers; guard petals fade to nearly white. Fnigrant. SI each.

PAPAVER orientalis. Oriental Poppy. This is the show-
iest individual (lower of our collection. Flowers 6 to 8
inches across, of (laming orange-scarlet in June.

P. nudicaule. Iceland Poppy. Low-growing plants, flow-
ering profusely' in June and in a less degree during the season.
Pure white, yellow, and orange.

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page are 30 cts.
eacJi, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

HICKS AlV/RSERIES

HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS

The stately spikes and dainty bells of the Yucca are conspicuous
in summer, and tlie foliage remains green all winter

PHYSALIS Bunyardii, Chinese Lantern Plant. Inter-
esting for the orange-red fruits wliicli cover the plant late in
the season. Grows 2 feet higli,

PHYSOSTEGIA virginiana. False Dragonhead. Spikes
of flesh-pink flowers, 2^2 feet high, in July.

PLATYCODON grandiflora. Balloon Flower. These are
erect-growing plants, 2 feet high. The flowers are blue and
white, quite similar to Canlerhury bells. Tliey bloom in
July and August.

PLUMBAGO Larpentae. Leadwort. Dwarf plants of
spreading habit, covered in the fall montlis with deep blue
flowers. Good for the rockery.

PRIMULA veris. Dwarf Primrose. Come in shades of
yellow and red. Come in May and take them in bloom in
pots. Make a children's garden with them.

p. elatior. Pale yellow. Grows 4 to 8 inches high,

PYRETHRUM roseum, Mixed. Feverfew. The semi-
double, daisy-like flowers of pink, white, and red are pro-
duced in May and June. Grows 1>^ to 2 feet high.

RANUNCULUS acris fl.-pl. Double-flowered Buttercup.

Flowers like the common Buttercup, but double, in June.
Grows 1 },o feet high.

RUDBECKIA laciniata. Golden Glow. It always thrives
and is therefore common. The masses of double golden
flowers in August and September certainly contribute color
when color is acceptable. Grows 6 to 8 feet high.

R. Newmanii. Black-eyed Susan. Plant this for memory's
sake. Everyone lias picked Black-eyed Susans.

R. nitida. A very free-flowering variety which makes the
garden radiant in late summer with bright yellow flowers
on stalks 5 to 6 feet high.

R. purpurea. Giant Purple Coneflower. A strong, rigid-
growing variety, 2 to 3 feet high, with reddish purple flowers.

SAGINA subulata. Pearlwort. A close, green moss 1 inch
high. Very attractive and happy in the rock-garden.

SALVIA azurea grandiflora. Meadow Sage. One of the
rare blues that are always welcome. In early autumn it
waves its slender wands of sky-blue flowers 4 feet liigh.

S. pratensis. Another blue flower that is bound to be popular.
It is very showy in May and June and grows 2 to 3 feet high.

SAPONARIA ocymoides. Soapwort. A pretty, trailing
plant, 1 foot higli, covered completely in May and June
with rosy pink flowers. Another plant for the rock-garden.

Unless otherwise noted, all varieties on this page are 30 cts.
each, $2.50 for 10, $20 per 100

SEDUM acre. Stonecrop. A creeping, moss-like ])lant,
with bright yellow star-like flowers in June. Delightful
among rocks and on sand banks like moss pink.

S. album. Also valuable for the rock-garden. Grows 6 inches
high, of creeping habit, and has small white flowers in June.

S. alatum. Another low-growing plant, excellent for rock-
eries of wall crevices.

S. sexangulare. Has dwarf, dark green foliage and yellow
flowers.

S. stoloniferum. We believe in ground-covers because they
are econoniical and will take care of tlieniselvcs. This
Stonecrop is also a good rock-garden plant.

S. spectabile. This is the Live-forever. Makes a mound of
healthy foliage with bright pink flowers from August to
September.

SENECIO clivorum. Large, deep yellow flowers in August.
Belongs to the sunflower family but grows only 2}.>-3 feet
high. ■ *' ' ^-

SILPHIUM perfoliatum. Cup Plant. A most sturdy
plant, growing 8 feet high. Too coarse for ifie small garden,
but acceptable where a heavy background is needed.
Yellow, daisy-like flowers in August and September.

STATICE latifolium. Giant Sea Lavender. A valuable
rock-plant with immense heads of \ery showy and lasting
small blue flowers, in August. Grows 2 feet high.

STOKESIA cyanea. Cornflower. One of the niost desirable
of perennials. Clusters of blue aster-like blossoms in
August and September. The bluest flower in the garden in
its season.

SWEET WILLIAM. See Dianthus.

TRADESCANTIA virginica. Spiderwort. An old-fash-
ioned |)iant 2 feet high, with bright l>lue flowers from May
to August.

THYMUS Serpyllum. Creeping Thyme. Lilac flowers.

Always found in old gardens and commonly used for an

evergreen edging and in rockeries.
T. Serpyllum coccineum. Bright crimson (lowers.
T. Serpyllum album. White flowers.
TUNICA Saxifraga. A pretty tufted plant with light pink

ffowers produced all summer. Usefuf eitlier in the rockery

or border,
VERONICA longifolia subsessilis. Bluejay Flower. Spikes

of most attractive blue flowers from July to September.
V. repens. Creeping Speedwell. Will cover the ground

where grass will not grow (excepting under maples). Small,

pale rose flowers.
V. rupestris. A dwarf, spreading plant with deep blue flowers

in May and June. Include it in your collcclionof rock-plants.
VIOLA cornuta. Tufted Pansy. A low-growing plant

blooming more or less all summer. The white and blue

flowers are like small pansies. Fine for the rock-garden.
YUCCA filamentosa. This is one thing that will grow in

poor soil. The sword-like leaves remain green all winter and

in July there is a stately spike 5 to 6 feet high loaded with

beautiful cream-colored bells. Excellent at the seaside.

For the blue garden use Stokesia freely

^#^WES TBV/RY, LONG ISLA MD/jM

HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS

Potted Plants

Keep your flower-garden smiling all sum-
mer. The following and many other per-
ennials and some annuals are in pots and
will be ready to fdl any vacancies in your
garden anj' time in the summer.

Many plants can be taken up with a
clump of soil and put in a box.

40 cts. each. $3.50 for 10

Page

Achillea Ptarmica, The Pearl 40

Alyssum saxatile compactum 40

Anchusa italica, Dropmore 40

A. italica, Opal 40

Anthemjs tinctoria , 42

AquUegia Hybrids 42

A., Yellow 42

A., White 42

Bellis perennis. Pink 42

Bellis perennis. ^^'hite 42

Campanula carpatica, 42

Campanula persicifolia grandiflora 42 Linum perenne. Flax 44

C. pyramidalis 42 Lychnis chalcedonica 44

Centaurea montana 42 Monarda didyma 44

Cerastium tomentosum 42 Myosotis semperflorens. Forget-me-

Peony. See page 45

Oriental Poppy. See page 45

Chelone Lyonii 42

Chrysanthemum 42

Coreopsis lanceolata 43

Delphinium, Gold Medal Hybrids 43

D. belladonna 43

Dianthus deltoides. Hardy Pink 43

D. plumarius. Double . .43

D. barbatus. Sweet William 43

Echinops humilis 43

Eryngium amethystinum 43

Gaillardia grandiflora 43

Gypsophila repens 43

G. paniculata 43

Hibiscus Moscheutos 44

Iberis sempervirens 44

Liatris pycnostachya 44

L. scariosa 44

Lilium speciosum album 44

L. auratum 44

L. speciosum rubrura 44

Iris pallida. See page 44

not 44

Phlox. Elizabeth Campbell 45

Eugene Danzanvilliers 45

Independence 45

Lumineaux 45

Jules Sandeau 45

Rheinlander 45

Thor 45

Physostegia virginica 46

Platycodon grandiflora 46

Pyrethrum roseum 46

Ranunculus acris fl.-pl 46

Sagina subulata 46

Salvia azurea grandiflora 46

S. pratensis 46

Senecio clivorum 46

Statice latifolia 46

Stokesia cyanea 46

Veronica spicata .46

V. longifolia subsessilis 46

THE PLANTATERIA

Occasionally tlirough the catalogue we liave referred to taking the question, "What is the right time to plant this or tliat?"
out of the development of your country estate. On this page we will try to help you make up a garden program that is not a
garden program in the sense of burdening your mind or your notebook with, "I must remember
to order tiiis or move tliat."

Leonard Barron, editor of Garden Magazine, in an editorial on summer planting lias said
''Spring is the time when transplanting can be done most carelessly." The most careless way

may be economically necessary in planting a large forest

or orchard, or where the distance to haul by horses is long.

The right way to plant can be used almost all the year with

almost all kinds of plants. Two achievements of Hicks

Nurseries are at your service — planting all the time and

time-saving. The two developments liave grown up to-
gether, for careless planting will not pay witli time-saving

trees when the results are guaranteed satisfactory. The

methods of growing, digging, and preparing for shipment

must be right, even if it takes more time and skill.

The American people now do not want to wait, either

for things to grow or for their order to be gotten ready.

Hence we have started a "plantateria" where some of the

things you want are ready. You can pick these up, put

them in your car, and tell how many you have taken. You

will find ready for you, in pots, annuals, perennials, rose

bushes, vines (in tubs, bo.xes, or with bails of earth with

burlap), llowering shrubs, evergreens, and ilowering trees.
Miles of roads lead through pleasant groves of shade

trees, little and big evergreens, small, medium, and large

fruit trees. You can pick them out and have them delivered

any time during the summer. You have only to think of a ■

thing to have it. Some have said, "I suppose you are so busy

with the big estates that you don't want to bother \\ ith us."

I answer by saying, "It is lots more fun and perhaps as

much profit if only more of you will come," The Jericho
Platycodon grandiflora. See page 46 Turnpike at Westbury is easy to find.

Veronica. See page 46

HICKS -NV/RSERIES

Making mud pies under trees of their own planting
is the children's right. An apple tree is the best climb-
ing tree. Make the real estate developer have the lots ti
deep enough for orchard and garden.

A lady phoned from Hempstead, "Do
you have grape-vines? We've had our
place six years and I've wanted grapes.
This year I am going to have them,"

FRUITS

For the suburban region of
New York City

There was a time \\hen
almost all farms had a big
orchard pastured by sheep
and ]}igs. Cider and ^■inegar
were by-products. Apjiles
were taken to market witli
potatoes, or jjcddlers came
after them. The cellar kept
Long Island Russets until
rhubarb time, or later.
E\'ery farmhouse had sev-
eral clierry trees, or they were
planted along the farm
lanes and the roads. Quinces
grew near the spring; pears,
plums, and ]5eaches grew
near tlie vegetable-garden
or in the orchard. Gra]3es
ckimbered over a trclhs,
barn, or shed. Tlie farmers
of the region now forming
the suburbs of New York
liad hard work, jjcace, and
jjlenty. Tlie a|>ple orchards
are mostljf gone, for when
the Pohsli farmer rents
from the land sijcculator,
he pulls out the dying fruit
trees and ]jlants potatoes.
No new orchards are plant-
ed. Tlie big country estates
buy up the best orchards
and block up the \\^ood-

But what

pecker holes with cement. The
old trees die from thirst, and
no new ones are planted, or if thej^
are planted the gardener is told to
save monej^ get a motor la-wn-mower,
and stop cultivating the orchard. He
^ is told, "We can buy fruit c[iea]3er than

we can raise it."
is the poor commuter to do for fruits?
His wife goes to the chain stores and buys the essentials,
cereals and meats, and lias not money for suflicient
apples, pears, raspberries, celerj^, lettuce, and spinach.
Everyone knows the importance of bulky foods. E"\ery-
one is hungry for the sweet, sour, and bitter of fruits
and is anxious to have plenty of vegetables and salads.
Perhaps you tliink you can buy cheaper tlian you can
raise, but that is lazy thinking and lazy work, and you
do not buy plenty. If fruit is raised at home there may
be plenty in years of a good crop and a balanced ration
is possible. Hicks Nurseries has not an answer to all
these problems for every month in the year, but it is
willing to help and anxious to learii from you what to
pass on to the next.

For new food plants, see Beach Plum, page 31;
Blueberry, page 52; Shad-bush or Juneberry, page 27;
Hazelnut, page 30.

Rhubarb. See page 53

l^ltWES TBVyRY, LOAJG ISLA M DA /1/g

FRUITS

APPLES

Api^Ies can be gro%vn successfully on all parts of Long Island, even
on the sand-dunes at Long Beach. The commercial orchards were on
the hills and tlie north plateau. Shipments of Newto-\vn Pippin Avere
made to England from Port Washington and Huntington. On the
southern slope of Long Island, Apples thrive, but the great porosity of
tlie soil sfiould be overcome by cultivation to kill competition of ■\vccds
and grass, and check evaporation by a dust midch. \A liere that is
impracticable, sympathetic watering before tlie tree suffers "wil! do. How
to tcll wlicn to water requires the same abihty as to tell -when corn is
going to roll its Iea\^es to check evaporation. The U. S. Department of
Agriculture Yearbook, 191L Pcige 311, says that crops suffer when
there is less than an inch of rain in fifteen days. You can measure it in
a can or ask the Weather Bureau for the Long Island records showing
how frequently droughts occur during the growing season. There may
be fiftjf such periods in ten years. A severe drought will make the
Apples small, wrinkled, "v^ilty, and poor keepers. Therefore, to have
orchards on the sandy soils of Long Island, don't be like the man in the
following conversation: *'\\hy don't the Park Department get an
apjjropriation for irrigation?" "Because some fellow in the Controller's
Department would say, 'Trees grew good enough in the country when
I was a boy, without irrigation."* Suburban orchards arc usually
star\-ed. Fruit trees want decaying vegetable matter as manure, leaves,
grass, thatch, or salt ha3% The southern slope of Long Island is verj'
low in lime, as mapped in "Tiie Use of Lime on the Soil," College of
Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. Apples like lime, and you can applj^ it as
linie, bone-meal, or wood-ashes. Nitrogen stimulates rapid growth.

Spraying and pruning fruit is a minor consideration. Many people make a mistake and think that calling on
us to spray or prune assures a crop. Make the trees grow and you will get a crop. The spraying and pruning you
can do yourself. Get literature from the Farm Bureaus, Mineola or Riverhead.

For the small home orchard we advise growing the summer and fall Apples and buying winter Apples, Alost
people ask first for the winter Apples. You will have to decide which plan is right for you.

Plant standard Apples 20 to 33 feet apart. For commercial orchards, wider distances are best. Dwarf Apples
are grafted on small-growing species which stunts the trees so thej" can be placed 12 to 15 feet apart. There is,
however, but little advantage in the use of dwarf Apples.
Large size, 6 to 8 ft., $7 each, $60 for 10; 2-yr. size, 5 to 7 ft., $1.25 each, $10 for 10; Dwarf size, 3 to 4 ft., $1.25 each, $10 for 10

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Beach. He says, "I read about ray trees in the
evening; I give them wood ashes from my fireplace
in the city."

SUMMER VARIETIES

Early Harvest. Similar to Yellow Transparent. Pleasantly

acid. Late July and early August.
Oldenberg (Duchess). Yellow with streaks of crimson;

juicy, acid. Aliddle of August. Bears early.
Red Astrachan. I\ed; acid. First lialfol August.
Sweet Bough. Large; j'cllow; good for baking.
Yellow Transparent. Tlie earliest variety — ripens July 20.

Usually bears tlie iirst or second year after planting.

FALL VARIETIES

Fall Pippin, Large; clear yellow; acid. October.

Gravenstein. If you can liave but one Apple and are not
anxious for a very early variety, this will cover the entire
season for dessert and cooking from the middle of August
to the last of September.

Mcintosh. The most showy apple in September and Octo-
ber. Bright red, taking a high polish. Flesli is white like its
relative the Fanieuse or Snow Apple.

Transcendent Crab. Yellow with red cheek. September.

Wealthy. Red; line quality. September to December.

WINTER VARIETIES

Baldwin. Large; red; crisp, juicy, and ricli. Tree vigorous

and productive. November to April.
Delicious. Large; red.
Hubbardston (Hubbardston's Nonsuch). Red; bears

young. October to January.
King. Large; red. October to January.
Newtown Pippin. Originated at Newtown, now Elmhurst,

Long Island. Clear yellow or green; llesh lirm, keeping

until April. Tree small.
Northern Spy. Red; juicy. November to March.
Opalescent. Very attractive; brilliant red; yellow flesh,

tender, juicy. November to January.
Rhode Island Greening. Large; green or greenish yellow;

flesh yellow and of the texture of the Fall Pippin, fine grained

tender, and rich. No\'ember to February.

WINTER APPLES, continued
Rome Beauty. Large; red.
Roxbury (Russet). A standard winter Apple of medium to

large size; flesh greenish white, crisp, with iine subacid

flavor. Iveeps late.
Spitzenburg. Subacid; aromatic; red.

Stark. Large; red and yellow; mild flavor. Keeps until spring.
Stayman Winesap. High quality; red; juicy.
Twenty-Ounce. Bears rather young; fruit large; yellow and

red; flesh tender, subacid. September to early winter.

Dwarf Apples can usually be supplied in the following
varieties:

Baldwin Mcintosh

Delicious Northern Spy

Fameuse Oldenburg

Gravenstein

Rhode Island Greening
Stayman's Winesap
Yellow Transparent
Wealthy

TIME-SAVING APPLE TREES

Four or five 3'ears ago we started plantations of Apple trees
to save you time. They are about 6 feet apart, in squares, so
they could be economically cultivated. Now they are ready.
The fruit bulletins mention dilVerent varieties beginning to
bear in two to eight years after planting. Tliese trees will save
you some time and money. They are set with fruit-buds.
When you pick them out you can count tlie fruit-buds. The
time-saving depends on our careful digging, transplanting to
make fibrous roots and upon your cuittv^ating, leeding and water-
ing the trees. Trees are now 5 to 7 feet ■svide. The approximate
quantities of these extra-sized trees are as follows:
130 Baldwin. 50 Oldenburg

50 Early Harvest 30 Red Astrachan

60 Fall Pippin 40 Rhode Island Greening

150 Gravenstein 10 Roxbury Russet

30 King 40 Stark

140 Mcintosh Red 20 Twenty-Ounce

50 Northern Spy
There are about forty trees, larger than the above, fifteen
years old, 6 to 8 inches in diameter, 12 to 16 feet spread.
Transplanted last year.

AJV/RSERIES

FRUITS

Baitlett Pears

PEARS

Everybody loves Pears. Tdoy can be grown on a
small area, for the tree grows up 20 feet liigh and 15
feet broad, while an apple of the same age hovers hke
a hen over 30 feet wide. As one man said, "Lots are
cut up so small now that if you have a house and garage,
there is room for onlj' one apple tree and one pear tree."

Dwarf Pears, grafted on quince roots, will bear heav-
ily, even wlien 6 feet Iiigh and 5 feet wide.

Pears do well on Long Island. You will find many
people enthusiastic over the fine quality and large
supplj^ they get iVom a few trees.

Large size, 7 to 9 ft., $7 each, $60 for 10; 2-yr. size, 5 to 7
ft., $2 each, $17.50 for 10; Dwarf size, 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each,
$12.50 for 10.

Anjou. Large; green and russet; rich flavor. October .incl

November.
Bartlett. Everybody's favorite. Yellow with bright red

cheek; vigorous and productive. August and September.
Buerre Rose. Fruit long; russet; very juicy and delicious.

October to November.
Buerre Clairgeau. Large; rich yellow with briglit crimson

cheek; flesh white, granular, buttery, very sweet. Ripens in

late October.
Buffutn. Tree very vigorous and healthy; fruit medium size;

russet, ilesh white, juicy, and sweet. Ripens in late Sep-
tember and October.
Clapp Favorite. Fruit like the Bartlett but two weeks earlier.

Pick it before it ripens, otherwise it softens at the center.

Ripens in August,
Duchesse d'Angouleme. Very large. The favorite variety to

grow in home orchards. Yellow; ilesh melting and sweet.

October and November.
Elizabeth. Among the best summer Pears of good flavor,

ripening in late autumn.
Howell. A good variety for home orchards; a profuse bearer.

Flesh firm, \'ery delicious; ripens in September and October.
Josephine de Molines. An excellent winter Pear; buttery,

juicy and perfumed. Ripens from December to March.
Kieffer. Hybrid of Chinese Sand Pear and European Pear.

Most easily grown l^ear because the Chinese climate is like

ours. It endures heat and bears heavily, large, coarse,

yellow fruit, good for cooking and canning in Nov. and Dec.
Lawrence. Fruit of medium size; yellow; flesh melting.

Keeps well in winter.
Louise Bonne de Jersey. Fruit from medium to large in

size; iiandsome; excellent in quality; very pale yellow,

ripening in Ociober.
Osband's Summer. Medium size; yellow; flesh white, sweet.

Ripens in August.
Pres. Drouard. Resembles the Anjou. Ripens in October.
Rossney. Fruit of large size, excellent flesh and flavor, with

smooth, bright yellow skin. A vigorous grower and great

bearer. September.

PEARS, continued

Seckel. Fruit small, brown. The richest and highest flavored

Pear known. September.
Sheldon. Round, russet fruit; flesh melting, juicy, and

luscious. October.
Tyson. Excels the Clapp Fa\'orite, except in size. A vigorous,

healthy tree with fruit of excellent quality. Ripens in late

August,
Wilder Early. Bright yellow; sweet. Late August.
Winter Nelis. Very small; russet; juicy and sweet. Keeps

until mid-^vinter. November and December.

DWARF PEARS
Dwarf Pears can usually be supplied Iti the following:
Bartlett Lawrence

Buerre Bosc Osband's Surnmer

Clapp Favorite Seckel

Duchesse d'Angouleme

TIME-SAVING PEAR TREES

As stated under apple
four to five years longer
two to three j'ears old, pi
able is approximately as

20 Anjou

50 Beurre Bosc
225 Beurre Clairgeau

19 Beurre Superfinan

50 Suffern
120 Clapp Favorite

28 Garber Hybrid
220 Howell

60 Josephine

50 Kiefifer

;, we have a block of Pears grown
than the usual sized stock which is
anted 6 feet apart. The stock avail-
follows:

25 Lincoln Coreless
210 Louise Bonne de Jersey

75 Manning's Elizabeth
100 Osband's Summer

25 Pres. Drouard

50 Seckel

20 Sheldon
100 Tyson

90 Winter Nelis
243 Rossney

CHERRIES

Sweet Cherries, or 0.\-hearts, are loved by the birds,
which will eat the fruit a week before it is ripe. In the
old days, A\hen farmers had perhaps half a mile of
cherry trees, there was a surplus. At Ilodenpyle's
Arboretum, Locust Valley, Cherries arc gro\\n on a
trellis, like grapes, and covered with mosquito netting
to protect from both birds and rose-bugs. The Sour or
Pie Cherries bear ]^ca^iIy when small, and tlic birds
will allow you a large percentage of them.

2-yr., 5 to 7 ft., $2 each, $17.50 for 10
Black Tartarian. Purplish red; flesh firm, sweet, and juicy.
Early Richmond. Acid; excellent for pies and canning.

Early.
English Morello. Acid; late.
Montmorency. Acid; midseason.
Napoleon. Large, handsome; rich, sweet IIa\'or; juicy, red

o\er a yellowish background. Commonly called "Ox-heart."
Schmidt's. The largest black Cherry; meaty; crisp; sweet.
Yellow Spanish. Very large; yellow with red cheek, sweet.
Windsor. Dark red; sweet.

PEACHES

Long Island once grew a large quantity of Peaches
and can do so again, but the crop is not so quick or
certain as "\TgetabIes. One sees many starved, yellow
Peach trees, clioked ^^•it]^ ^\•ccds. Tliere will be a mass
of jell^' at the ground, showing that they are nearljf
girdled with borers. The borers can be cut out with a
knile in S]Dring and fall. The Experiment Stations tell
of a crystal gas for borers. Peaches bear frequently the
secoitd year after planting, and reach full production
soon after. They are not Iong-Ii^•cd and it is a good
plan to ])Iant one or two rows e\'ery tluee years. Cut
back the ends of the long limbs and thin out the fruit,

2-yr., 5 to 6 ft., $1 each, $7.50 for 10
Belle (Belle of Georgia). Large; white; good quality.

Ripens in August.
Carman. Brilliant red skin; good quality, July.
Champion. White; tender; juicy with honeyed flavor.

August.
Crawford Early. Yellow; rich fla^■or; juicy. Early September.

^f^^WESTBV/RY, LOAIG \SLANDisJci

FRUITS

PEACHES, continued

Crawford Late. Yellow; very large; a favorite for canning.
September,

Elberta. Yellow; large; excellent for shipping. Not quite so
good in quality and lacks the richness of the Crawfords and
the sweetness of the white Peaciies. August.

Globe. Yeliow-coiored fruit; good. September.

J. H. Hale. Yellow; larger than the Elberta. August.

Mountain Rose. White; preeminent for high color; sweet.
August.

Oldmixon. White; flavor excellent; fine for canning. Sep-
tember.

Stevens' Rareripe. White; llavor a pleasant mingling of
sweet and sour. September.

PLUMS

The European Plums wliich come to our market
from western New York and the Pacific Coast rank
high in favor btit have not become widclj' culti\'atccl
on Long Ishind. Thej' are worth tr^'ing. The European
Plums are mostly large and sweet. Thej^ can be gro\Mt
on. Long Ishtnd, but it is best to add the Japanese and
American species for the greater vigor of the tree,
longer hfe and heavier crops. The culture of Plums is
similar to that of peaches.

2-yr., 5 to 7 ft., $2 each, $17.50 for 10
Abundance. A Japanese Plum bearing very heavy crops
every year. Needs severe thinning. Ripens early in August.
It is red, juicy, and sweet.
Apple. A Burbank hybrid with Japanese ancestry, and there-
fore very \igorous anci productive. Fruit large and attrac-
tive; deep reddish purple in color; llesli red and firm. August.
Bradshaw. European. Reddish purple; tlcsh yellow, juicy,

and sweet. August.
Green Gage. European. Small, round, green or golden Plum

of very iiigh quality. August.
Lombard, A European Plum of vigorous growth; good

quality for preserving, August.
October Purple. Japanese. Very juicy; sweet; good for

canning. Ripens in October.
Red June. Japanese. Red and yellow; very early, sweet

except near the center.
Wickson. The largest of the Japanese Plums introduced by
Burbank. Flesh yellow, juicy, sweet. September.

BEACH PLUM {Prunus marilima)

One of the largest and best native fruits of Long Island,
covering large areas of the poorest, sandiest soil on the beach
and in the pine barrens, as along the road from Riverhead to
Sniithtown and on the borders of the Hempstead Plains. The
fruit is about 1 incii in diameter — black, yellow, or red —
slightly bitter until ripe. It ripens the first of September.
Plant in the siirubbery, 3 to 8 feet apart, or 2 feet apart as a
hedge. You may do the most useful thing in selecting or
hybridizing belter varieties. 1 to 2 ft. high, 50 cts. each, $4.50 /
for 10, S40 per 100. h

QUINCE [

The Quince makes a broad, bush-hke tree about r-
10 feet wide. The fruit, \\hen cooked or made into |
jelly, is so much beloved that the Quince tree should Y -
be planted in many gardens. (^ '

2-yr., $2 each, $17.50 for 10 ■

Champion. Fruit long; very large and handsome; tender

delicate taste and odor. Ripens late and keeps long.
Orange. Fruit round. Ripens in midseason.

CURRANTS

Nc matter iiow small a garden, tliere should be room
for Currants. They are sure to bear, and even if the
Currant \A-orms strija off the leaves, they bear the next
year. Currant worms are easily controlled by hellebore
powder. Fi\'e to ten bushes will supply a family' with
jam and a surplus to give away.

50 cts. each, $4 for 10
Cherry. Large; red; acid.
Fay's Prolific. Red; large; long bunch.
White Grape. Excellent. Sweeter in flavor than the red

Currant.

GOOSEBERRIES

These grow just as readily as currants, and have the

same enemy.

50 cts. each, $4 for 10
Downing. Sweet; large; quality very good; red. Grown more

widely in America than any other Gooseberry. _
Red Jacket. Fruit of especially high quality, juicy; red.

BLACKBERRIES

The fact that Blackberries arc the most rampant and
widespread of our native fruits except the blueberries,
shows that the impro\-cd ^'arieties shoidd be \\idely
grown. In fact, their free gro\\'th is the one difficulty in a
garden. They can Idc kept tied up to a trellis or stake.

$1.50 for 10, $10 per 100
Early Harvest. Mcdiiim in size; sweet; very early; ripens

over a long season.
Erie. Berries very large; quality good. Ripens in midseason.
Lucretia Dewberry. An improvement of the running Black-
berry and therefore suitable for planting on sand-banks the
same as the wild rose. Ripens earlier than tiie iiigh Black-
berries and sure to have a crop when the others winter-kill —
perhaps once in fifteen years.
Snyder. Medium size; good flavor; sweet. Ripens in mid-
season.

RASPBERRIES

Everybody wants Raspberries, and one reason for
growing them is that they are not abundant on the
market. The Red Raspberry is not native on Long
Island, but is nati\'e in rocky pastures and along stone
walls in northern New York, where it is helped by
moisture and favored by lime and potash. In Westbury
there is a commuter feasting on Raspberries in July and
September. He says the reason is hen-manure and
wood-ashes. The Black Raspberry is native on Long
Island along fences and woodland borders.

$1.50 for 10, $10 per 100
Cumberland. Black. Large; juicy; sweet.
Cuthbert. Red. Midseason; spicy llavor like the wild berries.
Golden Queen. A yellow Cuthbert.
Gregg. Black; sweet, rich.

Marlboro. Red. Large; juicy.

-r .. N^;

Miller's Red. Red. Large.
Plum Farmer. Black,
Large; early and high
quality.
St. Regis. Everbearing
Red. Bears a crop of
fruit in July and
another in. Sep-
tember.

HICKS AJV/RSERIES

FRUITS

STRAWBERRIES

Nearly eveiy commuter Iiopcs to grow Stra\Yberries.
It is easy and sure. There are two systems: (1) Let the
runners grow and form a mat of new plants the first
year and bear the next. (2) Cut off all the runners and
grow them in hills. By tlie latter system you can plant
in midsummer. Plant about 2 feet apart.

Runners, $4 per 100. Potted plants, $8 per 100

^Bubach. Very productive; good quality.

Early Jersey Giant. Good flavor.

Glen Mary. AHdseasoH. Medium to large size; quality good.

Marshall. Midseason. Good quality.

Progressive. Most widely known of the Everbearing Straw-
berries, producing both in the spring and fall.
^Sample. large; weil-ffavored; soft.

Superb. Everbearing.

William Belt. Quality very good; softf

*Need other varieties planted with them to make them
produce well. f

GRAPES

The Fox Grape is wild on Long Island in swamps and
along borders of woods and hedge-rows. From it most
of the cultivated varieties ha^•e been developed. You
can plant Grapes anywhere — on trellis, garage, house,
fence, arbor, or on posts with a piece of brush to support
the vine. Long Island has not developed as a com-
mercial Grape region, perhaps because tlie cool climate
of the Lake Region is more favorable for shipping.
You can learn from your neighbors or the Farm Bureaus
how to prune and protect from rose-bugs, fungus, birds,
and drought.

50 cts. each, $4 for 10

Concord. Black; very popular; early.

Delaware. A sweet, little red Grape.

Moore's Early. Similar to the Concord.

Niagara. The handsomest white Grape, with large bunches.

Pocklington. White; sweet; rich.

Salem. Dark red; juicy; good flavor.

Worden. Larger, earlier and of better quality than Concord.

IN THE TEST ORCHARD OF HICKS NURSERIES
Probably one of the greatest hindrances to successful fruit-raising
IS lack of cultivation, that is, thorough cultivation, which maintains a
dust mulch and conserves moisture. This does not consist of scraping
the surface a half-inch deep in a little circle, 3 feet in diameter, in the
lawn. It does consist in stirring the surface 3 inches deep once in two
weeks. You can also mulch with grass or leaves. It seems far easier
to spray a tree, or put a band of sticlty stuff around the trunk, or have
an expert prune it, or give it some chemical fertilizers.

See that the trees are not thirsty before they suffer. Dig down
and feel the soil.

Blueberry pies on the table of eveiy Long Island gardener can readily be had from
the fruit grown in his own yard

BLUEBERRIES

(See also page 33)

The most important use of the poorest land of Long Lsland
IS to establish cultivation of the improved Blueberries. Gross
returns of S1,000 per acre are made by J. J. White, Inc., New
Lisbon, N. J. They are growing 25 acres in conjunction with
700 acres of cranberries. Improved varieties liave been devel-
oped by Miss Elizabeth White of this company and F. J.
Coville, Botanist, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The
Swamp Blueberry grows on the upland, on llie hills, on the
Hempstead Plains, but commercial plantations on Long Island
should first be developed along the streams and salt meadows,
in sandy .soil where the surface is from 6 inches to 3 feet above
the water-table. On higjier soils tlie drought may lessen the
profits, but they can be perfectly at home in such situations
for home use. In New England the Swamp
Blueberry grows on the hills. The shorter
summer season, and the fact tliat the moisture
^ is held up by tiie rocks, may permit com-

mercial culture on the upland. Make tlie soil
acid with leaves, not alkaline with manure
or lime. The plants «e ofler are wild and not
the new improved ^aricties. The latter can
be purchasetl from J. J.iWhite, Inc., who are
just commencing to put them on the market.
1 Each 10

3 ft S2 50 : /O 00

-1 ft 3 50 30 00

JUNEBERRY

AMELANCHIER spicata. Shad-Bush.

Dwarf ornamental. See page 27. Low
bush in the pine-barrens about 3 feet high,
with juicy, sweet berries in June. There
are other species growing as tall bushes or
trees. I to 2 ft. high, 35 cts. each, S3 for 10,
S25 per 100.

F|^jt^ttWES TBV/RY, LQAJG \SLA ND^iid

NUTS

Tlic native nuts on Long Island are the Black Walnut, Butternut, Sliagbark and Mockernut Hickory, and
Hazelnut. The old farmsteads of Long Island usually liad one or more Black Walnuts. The Hazelnut and Mocker-
nut grow on the borders of the Hempstead Plains and in the pine-barrens; the others on the heavier and moister
soil of tlie terminal moraine and nortliern plateau. If you want to supjjly the most in foods \\ith the least cfTort,
and be like Johnny Appleseed, who carried bags of apple seed to plant around the pioneer homesteads in the Ohio
Valley, you can make crowbar holes along tlie roads and drop in nuts. Later you can bud or graft them to im-
proved varieties. You can do the same on your own land and wherever the owner is willing or you dare to trespass.
Squirrels do not forget enough they biny to keep up the supply of young trees.

The land and climate are here; the land will be available for twenty or fifty years, but, unless you plant nuts, the
supply will continue to decrease. The improvement of nuts by selection and hybridizing, and multiplication by
grafting and budding is many centuries behind that of fruit. You can get into the game by ^\■riting or calling on
Mr. Willard N. Bixby, Treasurer of the Northern Nut Growers' Association, Baldwin, Long Island. He has the
most complete collection of bearing trees and he is glad to show anyone what to do. Nut trees produce more food
per acre than agricultural products, and by planting Nut trees you can help establish a new food-supply.

ALMOND, Ridenhower. Hardy as the peach. Nut of

mediuin size; quality very good; desirable for lionie use.

4-6 ft. SI each.
BUTTERNUT. White Walnut (Juglans cincrea). Reaches

its highest development several hundred miles north of

Long Island, but is native in the valleys at The Alley near

Douglaston, Roslyn, Brookville, and Oyster Bay. 3-4 ft.

SI. 50 each, SIO for 10.
ENGLISH WALNUTS. There are a number of old English

Walnuts bearing on Long Lsland, as at Huntington, Wood-
bury, Glen Head, Hempstead, and Roslyn. On the southern

slope they will probably be thankful for heavy applications

of manure and bone. 2-3 ft., $L50 each, SIO for 10.
ENGLISH WALNUT, Franquette. A grafted variety very

hardy and reliable. Kernel large and of excellent quality.

3-4 ft. S2.25 each, S20 for 10.
ENGLISH WALNUT, Meyette. Grafted; kernel large, full

and of excellent quality. Tree very hardy. 3-4 ft. 82,25

each, S20 for 10.
HAZELNUT (Corylus americana). See page 30. We will tell

you where you can find it in quantity on the borders of the

Hempstead Plains and eastward. Perhaps you can discover

and introduce a large variety.
CONSTANTINOPLE HAZEL (Corylus colurna). See page 34.

An important export of Asia Minor. Vigorous tree with nuts

larger than the American.
HICKORY, Mockernut. The commonest Hickory of Long

Island. Meat of good flavor, but difTicult to extract. The

tree is an important element in Long Island landscape,

forming tali, square-shouldered specimens along the roads

and fences. A bark beetle killed off a large per cent about

ten years ago, but there is a vigorous crop of young trees

coming up in the forest, especially where the chestnut has

disappeared. Chestnut bark blight is the only serious

enemy of the trees of Long Island. Other troubles go in

waves. 5-6 ft. SI each, 37.50 for 10.
HICKORY, Shagbark, Native on the clay outcrop south

of the brick-vard at Glen Head, 4-6 ft. 81,50 each, 810

for 10,

PECAN. Seedlings from trees native in the northern part of
tlieir range in Indiana. We have a thousand of these given
to us by Mr. Bixby. You can make a happy home for them,
as mentioned under Black Walnut. There are bearing Pecan
trees fifty years old on the property of Mr. C. C. Pell,
Westbury, and trees over a hundred years old on the prop-
erty of Mr, Myron C. Taylor, Locust Valley, Long Island.
2-yr. transplants, 50 cts. each, S4 for 10.

PECAN, Busseron. A grafted variety from Indiana. Nut
large; long. 3-4 ft. S2.25 each. S20 for 10.

WALNUT, Black (Juglans nigra). In the contest for the
largest trees on Long Island, conducted b^' the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden, Buttonball, White Oak, and Black Walnut
took the lead. We have 50O trees. You can make holes
with a crowbar or post-hole digger and plant them cheaply.
Confectioners pay high prices for black walnut meats.
2-3 ft. SI. 50 each, 810 for 10.

WALNUT, Japanese (J. Sieboldiana). A vigorous tree
valuable for shade; long clusters of nuts like the Butternut,
4-6 ft. 82,25 each, 820 for 10.

WALNUT, Thomas. Nut very large; very good quality;
rapid grower. IH-I ft. 81.50 each, 815 for 10.

ASPARAGUS

Dig a trench 1 J-^ feet deep, put in 8 inches of manure, 4
inches of soil, and leave the trench open for the first year so
the little plants can come through. Next year hill up. Plant
1 foot apart, in rows 3 to 5 feet wide, according to the space
available. Plant 200 to 300 plants. 81 for 10. S4 per 100.

RHUBARB

See illustration in color on page 48
Five plants may do if you only use it in the garden, but if
vou force the roots in the cellar, plant fifteen to thirty. 30 cts.
each, S2.50.for 10.

UDO . Aral

data

Pecans grow readily on Long Island

raiia cor

A Japanese salad plant cultivated like the asparagus. Write
David Fairchild, U. S. Department of Agriculture, for bulletin.
There are dozens of little-known and new plants that you can
grow for bulky food, as chicory to force in the winter. Please
write us about them so we can pass on your experience.
30 cts. each, 82.50 for 10.

^., HICKS AIVRSERIES z>j

LARGE TREE-MOVING DEPARTMENT

Tree-Mover No. 21. Moves everui tens and <
nursery to the church hali

iher trees v
I luilo cast.

itll V

Thc

balls of earth. This is one of twu Pintr^
;1 jjlatfoiin and frame are worth aceiiig

_.C^.

This department has mo\ecI many thousands of large trees with
permanent success to the satisfaction of the owners and landscape
architects. It began fifty years ago mo\ing trees for Charles A.
Dana and for Garden City. Edward Hicks invented many different
types of tree-moving macliinery,

A staff of expert men are trained in the nursery. You will be
pleased to see how skillfully they dissect out the roots and handle
heavy weights.

Do you need large trees for beautj' or shade? Are there some in
your neighborhood? Do you wish to thin out your trees? We
advise what is best for you and the trees.

To arrange for moving large trees it is best tiiat we investigate
the situation, route, and trees. A charge is made if it takes much
time. Large trees not from the nursery are not guaranteed unless
requested.

The time to move large trees is any time. Deciduous trees over
14 inches are best moved from September to May. Evergreens arc moved with a ball of earth and at all
times of the year are successful. If you entrust the work to our trained men, success is practically
certain.

A group of big trees from the nursery, maples, lindens, oaks, pines, firs,
20 to 35 feet, may be just what you need.

Plant all summer. The trees live and grow better
than in spring or fall. Why? Because it is more sure
to be done right. The ball supports the tree and the
outer roots take hold immediately.

Since the time of the Garden of Eden there has
been no greater improvement in time-saving than the
Hicks inventions and methods shown here and on
pages 2, 8, 15, and 19. Come to the nursery at any
time, select your trees, and in over 85 per cent of the
cases you can have them within two weeks.

are'^'n^SrxS^-ste^el ^Sfc^fbys'lf t^ T^ift^e^S^i^^tka^fJ^'r '' tt'f ^1^ ^^^'^o*^ ^^^ -^ rear wheels
been 84 feet high and others 75 feet wide. diameter with a large ball of earth in the center. Some trees have

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We guarantee all plants from our nurseries to grow satisfactorily or replace free. Trans-
portation and planting of replaced trees borne by purchasers. We will tell you what care to
give on large trees moved for you. See page 54.

Prices are for stock loaded at the nursery. Estimates furnished on delivery, planting,
freight or express.

5 at 10 rate; 50 at 100 rate. Packing free except for stock of unusual size.

PACE

Abies 11, 12

Acer 2, 3, 27

Auliillea 40

Adimi's Needle 25

Agcr.itum 43

Ajuga 40

Aider, Black 30

Alkanct 40

Allspice 29

Almond 53

Almond, Double-flower-
ing 27

Althca 40

Alyssum 40

Amelanchier 27, 52

Ariipelopsis, .,.,.-, 38

Amygdalus 27

Aiicluisa 40

Aiidroniedii * .,,.-..,... 25

Anemone 40

Anlhemis 42

Apples.. 49

Ac|iiilegia 42

Arabis 42

Aral!:... 53

Arborvita; 21

Armeria 42

Aronia 27

Arrow-wood 33

Artemisia 42

Aster 42

Asparagus 53

Azalea 27,28

Baby's Breath 43

Balloon Flower 46

Balm. Bee 44

Baptisia 42

Barberry 29, 34

Beard Tongue 45

Beech 4

Bcllllowcr, Chimney 42

Bclinower Tree 35

Bellis 42

Bcrberis. . 29,34

Berry-bearing Shrubs . . .26
Bittersweet, Evergreen. .24

Blackberries 51

Black-eyed Susan 46

Blanket Flower 43

Blazing Star 44

Bleeding Heart 43

Blueberries 52

Bluejay Flower 46

Bluet, Mountain 42

Boltonia 42

Boxwood 23

Bro.ad-feaved Evergreens

23-25

Buddlcia 29

Bugle Flower 40

Burning Bush 30

Buttercup 46

ButterHy Bush 29

Butternut. . 53

Buxus 23

Calluna 24

Calycanthus 29

Camellia, False 36

Campanula 42

Campion 44

Canterbury Bells 42

Candytuft 44 I

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Carpinus 3

Catchdy 44

Cedar, Red 14

Cenlaurca 42

Cerastium 42

Chanifccyparis 12

Chamomile, False J .42

Cheionc 42

Cherries 50

Cherry, CorneSian 29

Chokcberry 27

Chrysanthemum 42

Clematis 38

Columbine 42

Conedower 46

Convallaria 43

Coral Bells 44

Coreopsis 43

Cornflower 46

Cornus 3,29, 34

Corylus 30,34,53

Cotoneastcr. . .24, 30, 34, 35

Cover Plants 23-25

Crab-Apple 35

Cranberry, High-bush. . ,33

Cress, Rock 42

Cup Plant 46

Currant, Indian 32

Currants 51

Cyd<mia 30

Cypress, Japanese ... 12, 13

Daphne 24

Deciduous Shrubs 27

Delphinium 43

Dcutzia 30. 35

Dianthus 43

Dicentra , .43

Dictaninus 43

Digitalis 43

Dogwood 3, 29

Dragonhead, False. .... .46

Echinops 43

Elsholtzia 35

Enkianthus 35

Eryngiuni 43

Eupatorium 43

Euonymus 24, 30, 35

Evergreen Trees 10-22

Evodia 35

Fagus 4

Feverfew 46

Filbert, European 53

Fir 11, 12

Flax 44

Forget-me-not 44

Forsythia 30, 35

Foundation Plants. . .23-25

Foxglove 43

Fruits 48-52

Funkia 43

Gaillardia 43

Galax 24

Garland Flower 24

Gas Plant 43

Gay Feather 44

Germander. , . . , 36

Ginkgo 4

Golden Bell 30

Golden Glow 46

Gooseberries 51

Grapes 52

Gypsopiiila 43

INDEX

PAGE

Halesia... 35

Hamamelis 30, 35

Hardy Garden Flowers

39-46
Harebell, Carpathian. . . .42

Hazel 34

Hazelnut 30, 53

Heather, Scotch 24

Hedera 38

Helcnium 43

Heliopsis 43

Ilelianthus 43

Hemlock 22

Hemerocallis 44

Heuchera. 44

Hibiscus 44

Hickory 53

Holly 24

HuUyliock 40

Holly, Sea 43

Honeysuckle 35, 38

Honeysuckle, Bush 31

Hornbeam, European ... 3

Hydrangea 30

Iberis 44

Ilex 24,30

Iris 44

Ivy, English 38

Ivy, Japanese 38

Jasmine 38

Jasniinum 38

Juglans 53

Junebcrry 27, 52

Juniper 14

Juniperus 14

Kalmia 24

Kerria 30,31

Lace-leaf Bush 32

Lantern Plant, Chinese. .46

Larkspur 43

Laurel, Mountain 24

Lavender, Sea 46

Lead wort 46

Leucothoe 25

Liatris 44

Ligustrum 30

Lilac 33, 36

Ldac, Summer. . . , , 29

Lilies 44

Lily 44

Lily, Day 43

Lily-of-thc- Valley 43

Linden 9

Linum 44

Liquidambar. 4

Lonicera 31, 35, 38

Loosestrife 44

Lupine 44

Lupinus 44

Lychnis 44

Li'thrum 44

Magnolia. 4

Maidenhair Tree, J.apa-

nese 4

Mallow, Marsh 44

Malus 35

Maple... 2, 3, 27

Marguerite 42

Mint, Heather 35

Monarda 44

Mock Orange 31

Morus 36

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Mountain Lover . .25

Mugwort, While 42

Mulberry 36

Mvosotis 44

Myrtle 25

Nepct.a 45

Nuts 53

Oak... 5-8

Opuntia 45

Pachistima 25

Pacliysandra 25

Pseonia 45

Pansy, Tufted 46

Papavcr 45

Pear. Prickly 45

Pears .' 50

Peach Bells 42

Peaches 50, 51

l\-arlworl 46

.53

Pentstenion. . 45

Philadelphus 31,36

Phlox 45

Physalis. 46

Physostegia 46

Picea 14, 15, 20

Pine 15-19

Pink 43

Pink, Sea 42

Pinus 15-19

Pinxter Flower 27

Plants for Woods and

Shade. 23-25

Platycodon 46

Plumbago 46

Plum, Beach 31,51

Plums 51

Poppy 45

Potentiila .25

Potted Plants 47

Primrose 46

Primula 46

Privet, California 30

Prunus 31

Pseudotsuga 20

Pyrcthruni 46

Qucrcus 5-8

Quince 51

Quince, Japanese. ...... ,30

Ranunculus 46

Rare and New Plants 34—36

Raspberries. 51

Retinispora 12, 13

Rhododendron 25

Rhodotvpos 31

Rhubarb 53

Rhus 31

Rosa 31,36

Rose 31.36,37,38

Rudbeckia 46

Sage, Meadow 46

Saf;ina 46

Salix 32

Salvia.. 46

Saponaria 46

Sedum 46

Senecio 46

Shad-bush 27, 52

Shade Trees 2-9

Silphium 46

Silver Bell 35

PACE

Snowball 25, 35

Snowberry 32

Snow Garland 32

Snow-in-Summcr 42

Soapwort 46

Sorbaria 36

Spanish Bayonet 25

SpeedwelL." 46

Spider wort 46

Spindle Tree 35

Spirea 32

Spruce 14, 15,20

Spurge, Japanese 25

Staticc 46

Stcphanandra 32

Stokcsia 46

Stonecrop 46

Storax 31

Strawberries 52

Strawberry Shnd) 29

Styrax 33,36

Stuartia 36

Sumac 31

Sunliowcr 43

Sweet Shrub 29

Sweet William 43

Symphoricarpos 32

Symplocus 36

Syringa 33, 36

Syringa-Mock Orange ... 36

Taxus 20, 21

Tea, Oswego 44

Tccoma 38

Tcucrium 36

Thistle, Globe 43

Thrift 42

Thuya 21

Thyme, Creeping 46

Thymus 46

Tilia 9

ToothachcTree, Chinese.. 36

Tradescantia 46

Tree-moving Depart-
ment 54

Trumpet Creeper 38

Tsuga 22

Tulip Tree 4

Tunica 46

Turt|Uoise Berry 36

Turtlchead 42

Ud<.... 53

Vaccinium 33

Veronica 46

Viburnum 25, 33, 36

Vinca 25

Vines 38

Viola 46

Virginia Creeper 38

Walnut, Black 53

Walnut, English 53

Walnut, White 53

Weigela 33

Willow, Pussy 32

Windllower 40

Wisteria. 38

Witch-Hazcl 30,35

Xanthoxylum 36

Yellow-root 33

Yew 20,21

Yucca 25, 46

Zanthorhiza. . 33

Books on the Relations of Plants to Their Surroundings, the foundation of agriculture and forestry.

Vegetation of New York. By Bray, New York State College

of Forestry, Syracuse.
Vegetation of Hempstead Plains and Pine Barrens of Long

Island. By R. M. Harper, College Point, L. I.
Vegetatioii of Pine Barrens of New Jersey. By Harshberger,

University of Pennsylvania.
Vegetation of Maryland. By Forrest Shreeve, Maryland

Weather Service, Baltimore.
Vegetation of Connecticut. By Nicolls, Yale University.

Relations of Plants to Acid and Alkaline Soils. By Edgar
T. Wherry, Washington Academy of Science.

Acid Tolerarit Crops for Acid Soils. Blueberry Culture. By

F. V. Coville, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
The Rural Science Series. Edited by L. H. Bailey. The

Macniillan Co., New York City.
The Landscape Garden Series. Edited by Ralph Rodney

Root. The Garden Press, Davenport, Iowa.

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Rock-Garden at Hicks Narseiies: Carolina Azalea, Golden Tuit, Iris, and Ajuga
Painting by Walter Huber

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