Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. 'Deciduous Trees 



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Our stock of Umbrella Magnolias, showing mass of fibrous 

 roots, the result of last year's root pruning 



Magnolia, Sweet Bay, continued 



they traveled on land which is now under water, 

 for Long Island is sinking at the rate of I foot 

 per hundred years. 



This Magnolia can be used for seaside planting 

 with the Holly, Cedar, Virginia Creeper, Wild 

 Cherry, Bayberry and Pitch Pine. It can also 

 be used on the upland in shrub borders and near 

 the flower garden. 



We offer it at low rates and recommend its 

 purchase in large quantities, for a stock of it 

 is not raised by nurserymen every year and, 

 therefore, cannot be offered at such low prices 

 annually. 



Umbrella. M. tripctala. This has large, tropical 

 foliage, the leaves being i > feet long and 8 

 inches broad. It grows rapidly to form a medium- 

 sized tree, with broad head, but it can be appro- 

 priately used in the background of large shrub- 

 beries for mass planting, spacing it about 10 

 feet apart. The luxuriance and large size of the 

 foliage makes an agreeable contrast to ordinary 

 foliage. While there is some natural scenery 

 with which it might be inharmonious, it will 

 always be so rare as to avoid the danger of 

 being commonplace. 



The flowers are pure white and about 8 inches 

 wide, and appear in the middle of June. The 

 fruit is the most showy and ornamental of all the 

 Magnolias. It is a brilliant red cylinder, about 5 

 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. The scarlet 

 seeds hang out on silken threads. 



Magnolia, Umbrella, continued 



We have worked up a stock* of large trees, 

 8 to 12 feet high, which are straight, symmetrical, 

 and root-pruned to transplant successfully. 



We recommend them for planting on upland, 

 but especially for moist situations. Those who 

 own land bordering the streams of Long Island 

 have herein an immense oppurtunity to immedi- 

 ately produce a beautiful group, for they can be 

 planted in among the existing wild growth and 

 will take care of themselves. They have run wild 

 about a spring at Brookville, near Oyster Bay. 



Large-leaved. M. macro phylla. This has the 

 largest flower and the largest foliage of any plant 

 hardy in this region. The blossom is as graceful 

 as a classic vasff. The pure white petals are thick 

 and firm in texture and open out as broad as a 

 man's hat. Our parent tree is 25 feet high, and 

 perfectly hardy. It is suited to the situations 

 mentioned for the Umbrella Magnolia, but is a 

 handsomer tree in every way except the fruit. 

 It is very rare in cultivation. It blooms about 

 the first of July, and the only defect is that the 

 rose-bugs seem intoxicated by its strong perfume 

 and fill its beautiful cup. To procure an undefiled 

 blossom, it is necessary to cover the bud with a 

 paper bag. 



Connoisseurs who wish to have the rare and 

 curious should include this. 



Fraser's. M . Fraseri. This resembles the Umbrella 

 Magnolia, but is a more slender tree. 



Cucumber. M . acuminala . Unlike the three above, 

 this appears to be just an exceptionally hand- 

 some ovate tree of the Tulip tree type. 



Large Silver Maples growing 15 feet apart in our Nur- 

 sery. Single leaders, ovate tops. Offered at bargain prices 

 because they are crowding smaller stock. 



