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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury -Station, N. Y. Ebergreens 



Residence of Dr. D. H. McAlpin, Morris Plains, N. J. Mass of large Pine, Hemlock and Spruce planted by us in 

 1906 on Hicks Tree-Movers. Photographed in 1907. We have hundreds of similar trees suitable for shipment by rail in 

 August, September, winter or spring. 



Mt. Atlas Cedar * Cedms atlantica 



The Cedars of Lebanon, introduced by the cru- 

 saders and planted about the older English castles, 

 are the noblest and broadest evergreens in England. 

 The Mt. Atlas Cedar grows with the Cedar of 

 Lebanon in Palestine, and so closely resembles it 

 that some botanists consider it a variety of the 

 same species. The Mt. Atlas is the hardier of the 

 two. It should be planted in groves of Pine and 

 Spruce. If this is done, in a few years people will 

 be surprised to see gracefully arching branches of 

 sparkling blue-green foliage, and many inquiries 

 will be received for the name of the new and 

 beautiful evergreen. Our plants are from a tree 

 35 feet high on Dana's Island, Glen Cove. 

 Blue. Cedrus Atlantica glauca. This is as blue as 

 the Roster's Colorado Blue Spruce. There are 

 a number of trees growing on dry, exposed hills 

 on Long Island and northern New Jersey. 



Cephalotaxus 



Cephalotaxus fortune!. This belongs to the Yew 

 family and has all the good qualities of the Yew, 

 with the addition of having larger foliage in more 

 graceful, arching sprays. It likes a sheltered and 

 moist place, but makes a beautiful plant here in 

 the open until late winter, when a few branches 

 get brown. There are beautiful old plants of it 

 at Glen Cove, 10 feet high and more in width. 

 It will endure shade and we would recommend its 

 use near the springy places on the north and 

 south shore, either in full sun or half shade. 



Firs Abies 



Erroneously Picea 



The Fir family is typified by the Balsam Fir, 

 train-loads of which add to our Christmas cheer. 



Sentimental friends of the forest lament the 

 destruction of future valuable timber. They should 

 study up the question before writing to the papers 

 and forest commissioners, urging the abolition of 

 the Christmas tree. 



First, the Balsam Fir is not valuable timber; 

 second, the trees cut are weeds in a pasture and not 



Firs, continued 



generally from forests; third, in the bountiful pro- 

 vision of nature, a dozen trees or more will get to 

 the Christmas tree size for one that reaches saw-log 

 size; fourth, in cutting Christmas trees only a very 

 few are selected. 



The Firs are all tall, pyramidal trees with a 

 pointed top. With the exception of the Concolor 

 and one or two others, they are all a very dark, 

 lustrous green and have a richness unexcelled by 

 other evergreens. 



Nordmann's. Abies Nordmanniana. The large 

 specimens in our Nursery excite the admiration 

 of most people who see them. They are very 

 broad pyramids of dark, lustrous green. As they 

 retain the foliage for several years, they are very 

 dense. 



We recommend their use as ornaments in a 

 group, rather than windbreaks or screens. They 

 thrive best in company with other evergreens 

 where their roots can penetrate deeply into 

 unfrozen ground and where they are protected 

 from the severest winds. Then they are hardy 

 and long-lived. Our trees are growing wide apart 

 and are frequently root-pruned. Like the Orien- 

 tal Spruce with which it grows in the mountains 

 of Asia Minor, it has long, coarse roots. 



Silver. A. picea; syn., A. pectinata. This is the 

 common timber Fir of Central Europe. We have 

 a number of large trees, 10 to 16 feet high, which 

 we offer at less than the cost of growing them 

 because they are not reliably hardy, becoming 

 brown in severe winters in exposed places. 



Veitch's. A. Veitchii. This is the color of the 

 Nordmann's Fir, but with even more of the sil- 

 very sheen on the lower side of the foliage. It is 

 a taller and more narrow growing tree. It appears 

 to be perfectly hardy in both foliage and bud. 

 This and A. homolepis will, in our opinion, prove 

 to be the best Japanese conifers. 



Concolor, or White. A. concolor. Of all the good 

 plants from the Colorado mountains, we would 

 place this in the first rank. It is nearly as blue 

 as the far-famed Colorado Blue Spruce, but it 

 is not so decidedly different from the normal 



