WESTBURY STATION, N. Y. 



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Comparative Chart 



RESULTS ON LONG ISLAND 



LESSONS FOR LONG ISLAND 



Pine trees thrive on land poor in lime. Beech trees 

 need lime. 



Rhododendrons and other plants of the heath family, 

 as laurel, azalea, clethra, andromeda, huckleberry, will 

 not grow on limestone soil. 



Use lime and potash or wood ashes for clover. Test 

 lime on Hempstead Plains. 



Use these plants largely in landscape planting. They 

 all demand some leaf-mold. 



Lack of humus accounts for lack of evergreen seed- 

 lings, as hemlock, fir, spruce, rhododendron, which 

 start in it. Conditions of our soil are favorable to their 

 mature growth. 



In landscape forestry, i. e., the gradual thinning of 

 the forest for the development of broad trees, if the 

 leaf-mold is removed, the food and moisture supply is 

 reduced and the trees fail. 



Apply stable manure and any available vegetable 

 matter. Grow clover, cow-peas, vetch, rye, and plow 

 under. Mulch around trees with leaves, thatch, manure 

 or lawn clippings. Dig in each year and apply more. 

 Mulch beds of shrubs ; it is cheaper than hoeing. 



Owners of country places fail to get economical or 

 beautiful results from starvation of trees. Small trees 

 suffer most because they have not a deep, wide root 

 system. Trees and plants are most beautiful when 

 most happy, i. e., with ample food and moisture supply. 



Study the maximum growth of trees and get yours to 

 equal it. Pin-oak, 2 feet ; red oak, 2 feet ; Norway 

 maple, 2 feet ; poplar, 4 feet ; white pine, 2 feet. The 

 rate of growth of the leader of young trees is greater 

 than of older trees. Avoid too much manure and water, 

 which makes the ground sodden and rots the roots. 



Some evergreens are injured while young, but not 

 when established with their roots below the frost. 



Protect some species, especially when young or stand- 

 Ing alone. Chinese arborvitae, hemlock, Retinospora 

 pisifera and its varieties, English and Irish yew, cedar 

 of Lebanon, Deodar cedar, cephalotaxus, blue spirea, 

 Andromeda Japonica, Azalea amcena, boxwood, 

 daphne, Enonymus Japonicum, evergreen hawthorn, 

 heather, English holly, mahonia, Magnolia grandiflora, 

 osmanthus, rhododendron, dolichos, English ivy, tea 

 roses. Mulch Japanese anemone, foxglove, lilies, knip- 

 hofia, sage, thyme, phlox, pinks, and other perennials. 



Long Island can grow many plants that are tender 

 elsewhere. It is about the northern limit for many 

 southern trees liquidambar, persimmon, white cedar, 

 pin, post and black-jack oaks, Magnolia glauca, and 

 holly. In the center of the island frost may kill the 

 foliage earlier than near the shore. 



Take advantage of the exceptionally favorable Long 

 Island conditions and develop the highest beauty of 

 the landscape. If growth is started when you order, 

 buy from a near-by nursery, where the trees are grown 

 and dug with numerous fibrous roots. Prune and re- 

 move part of the foliage, transport and plant carefully 

 and quickly. The warm soil quickly starts new roots. 

 Planting may thus continue in May and June. Shrubs 

 may be planted with balls of earth. 



Long Island soil averages more sandy than mainland. 

 Sand and rock-dust blown in from boulders on the 

 sound shore, as at Dosoris, Bayville and Oyster Bay, 

 form the fertile asparagus soil. Fine beach sand blown 

 over the pine barrens is pure quartz and not fertile. 



The moraine soil and flora resembles the adjacent 

 mainland. The coastal plain soil and flora is distinctly 

 southern and resembles the coastal plain from New 

 Jersey southward. Select for permanent planting trees 

 especially adapted to these conditions. 



