reasons why HICKS EVERGREENS 
are gvarantceed to grow 
ROOT PRUNED 
HEY have good roots and good roots are the 
first consideration in buying Evergreens. S 
The only way to get good roots is to root- s 
prune and transplant. This not only increases the 
number of small roots but keeps them in a smaller 
radius, Being in a smaller radius, very few are lost 
in digging. The tree on the right has been root- 
pruned; that on the left has not, 
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HE second consideration is carefully dug trees. Evergreens that are dug right and that reach 
the customer with a ball of soil that is compact and intact the way we Be them, are pretty 
sure to thrive. 
The larger-sized trees are packed with a conical sha: canvas lashed and lashed 
the ball of soll that is held firm! bed cross about 
This is Ear lan’ Wndthon tty teetaters toatl one days or lo 
i$ is Our Own Invention. ether they remain in transit one day, ten days or © makes 
little difference: Smaller trees with fibrous roots have the usual burlap sewed on. if , 
ADAPTED TO CLIMATE 
- JANUARY 
VER ENS must stand not only the cold of winter but the 
heat of summer. We offer only species that will stand severe 
variation in temperature and we have gone to the ends of the earth 
to get them. ates, . ca New ag ee eae Mountains in 
Colorado, mountains of Northern Japan, Korea, uria, So’ 
» Siberia, the Caucasus Mountains and the Balkan Peninsula.” ag ae 
J HICKS NURSERIES, Westbury, L.L, NY. 
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