At the right, Linden and Maple, moved for Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. 



the laundry paddock. 



Incidentally a screen planting to 



PREFACE, 



NEW and distinct type of nursery is shown in the Westbury 

 Nurseries in the growing of large trees for immediate landscape 

 results. No establishment in this country or Europe grows such 

 a quantity or variety of large trees. The nursery was founded 

 half a century ago, and many of the trees now available for 

 moving were planted in the first decade of the business as 

 specimens, and allowed to attain perfect development. More 

 than twenty-five acres are devoted to the growing of extra-sized trees ; the trees 

 being placed 8 to 40 feet apart, permitting ample sunlight, air and soil. The object 

 is not how cheap, but how perfect. A tree 4 inches in diameter, 20 feet high, may 

 be in a close crowded block 2 or 3 feet away from adjoining trees. Neither good 

 roots nor wide top can exist. Our trees are grown wide apart, and such a tree will 

 be 12 feet from its neighbors, with wide, low-branched top and perfect root system. 

 The latter is worth many times the former. These trees will give immediate results. 

 They are not mere promises of future shade and beauty. The large evergreen trees 

 are 8 to 35 feet high, 10 to 50 years old, and are kept in perfect condition for 

 transplanting. The usual sizes kept in nurseries, as trees 6 to 14 feet, and ever- 

 greens i to 5 feet, we offer of the best possible grade. 



Arboretum and Test Orchards. 



Our arboretum and certain nursery 

 blocks contain hundreds of new and 

 rare species of trees from Siberia, Japan, China, Europe and other temperate regions, 

 that are being tested to determine their value here. Extensive test orchards estab- 

 lished over sixty years ago by the late Isaac Hicks have proved that many varieties 

 thriving inland are inferior to other sorts here. 



