WESTBURY STATION, N. Y. 



^Seaside List 



Sycamore Maple, 

 Norway Maple, 

 Red Maple, 

 Oriental Plane, 

 Wild Cherry, 



Red Cedar, 

 Austrian Pine, 

 Scotch Pine, 



Indian Currant, 

 Privet, 



Marsh Elder, 

 Rugosa Rose, 

 Trailing, or Memorial 



Rose, 

 Carolina Rose, 



Virginia Creeper, 

 Japanese Honeysuckle, 

 Japanese Ivy, 



Sea Sand- Reed, or Am- 

 mophylla, 



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DECIDUOUS TRIXS 



Catalpa, 



Japanese Poplar, 

 Carolina Poplar, 

 Pin Oak, 

 Scarlet Oak, 



English Oak, 

 Red Oak, 

 Willow, in variety, 

 Yellow Locust, 

 Honey Locust, 



EVERGREEN TREES 



Red Pine, White Spruce, 



Mugho Pine, 



Juniper, 



Douglas Spruce, 

 Colorado Spruce, 



SHRUBS 



Sumach, 

 Bayberry, 

 Beach Plum, 

 High-bush Huckle- 

 berry, 



Upright Honeysuckle, 

 Lilac, 



Spirea, 



Blackberry, 



Blackcap, 



Tamarix, 



Barberry, 



Elder, 



Alder, 



VINES 



Wistaria, 

 Myrtle, 



Trumpet Creeper, 

 Bitter Sweet, 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



Couch, or Quack Grass, 

 Beach Pea, 



Swamp Rose Mallow, 

 Seaside Goldenrod, 



Mulberry, 

 White Birch, 

 Canoe Birch, 

 Euonymus, 

 Ailanthus. 



Norway Spruce, 

 Nordmann's Fir, 

 Concolor Fir. 



Buttonbush, 



Viburnum dentatum^ 



Cornus paniculata, 



Holly, 



Inkberry, 



Yucca, 



Bearberry. 



Wild Morning-Glory, 

 Matrimony Vine. 



Cactus, etc. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



In writing this Catalogue we desire to acknowledge the following authorities : 

 "Cyclopedia of American Horticulture" : : : : L. H. Bailey 



"The Rhododendron" : : : : : E. S. Rand, Jr. 



"The Fertility of the Land" : : : : i I. P. Roberts 



"The Soil" : : : : : : F. H. King 



"Elementary Meteorology" : : : : : W. M. Davis 



"Pleistocene Geology of portions of Nassau County and Borough of Queens"* J. B. Woodworth 

 Thanks are also due to Messrs. Veatch and Bowman, of the United States Geologial Survey, who 

 are preparing a report on the geology and water supply of Long Island, in connection with the New 

 k City Water Commissioners ; and J. A. Bonsteel, of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ure, Division of Soils, who is preparing a map of the soil of Long Island. 



Obtainable of New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. Price, 25 cents. 



In the distribution of trees according to zones of physical climate, Long Island is in the cold temperate zone 

 of deciduous trees. The boundaries , are not, closely .fiiarked. Deciduous trees predominate in the forest, as 

 oak, beech, birch, maple, elm, poplar, chestnut, dogvvyood, ash, linden, hickory and tulip tree. 



The native evergreens are typical of the two bordering zones. Holly, inkberry, laurel and rhododendron 

 extend from the warm temperate zone of broad-leaved evergreens; white pine and hemlock extend from the 

 sub-arctic zone of conifers the cone-bearing trees with evergreen needle-shaped leaves. The warm temperate 

 zone has winter, mostly without severe frost, and from Washington southward is characterized by broad-heaved 

 evergreens, as holly, live-oak and Magnolia g'fandiflora. The shb-arctic zone, from the Catskill mountains and 

 Maine northward, has winters with nearly continuous freezing, and the forests are mostly fir, spruce and pine. 

 For Long Island, evergreens must be selected from portions of these three zones most closely resembling ours, 

 avoiding mainly those of western coasts with an equable clinjate, as England and Oregon, and including those 

 of eastern coasts, as tfeis and Japan, and the interiors of the continents, as Colorado and the Caucasus moun- 

 tains, which have a widely variable climate with extremes similar to ours. See map, page 14. 



Long Island is fortunate in having been, for two centuries, the testing ground of the beautiful trees of the 

 world. Many evergreens need from 50 to 100 years' test Plant according to these te>ts and the following 

 chart, and the many mistakes now made to vex the sense of beality or economy will be avoided. 



