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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station. N. Y. Evergreens 



American Hemlock, continued 



Another quality of Hemlock is but little appre- 

 ciated its ability to stand shade. No other ever- 

 green except the Yew exceeds it in this respect. 

 Hemlocks should be planted in the edges of wood- 

 land, along woodland drives and on steep north 

 slopes. A Long Island forest is often a monotonous 

 collection of nearly uniform telegraph poles, and 

 one of the difficult landscape problems with new 

 residences in such situations is planting the border 

 and interior of such woodland. 



One solution is to plant Hemlock, Yew, Cephalo- 

 taxus Fortunei in the shadiest portions with White 

 Pine, Norway and Douglas Spruce where there 

 is half sunshine. For deciduous planting, add 

 Beech and White Birch where they can have a sunny 

 position, backed by the darkest evergreens. Plant, 

 also, Flowering Dogwood, Red-flowering Dogwood, 

 Japanese Dogwood, Judas, Azalea, Golden Bell, 

 Dwarf Horse -Chestnut, Viburnum, Laurel, Holly 

 and Rhododendron, with the following vines to 

 climb the tree trunks. Bitter Sweet, Euonymus 

 radicans, Honeysuckle, Climbing Roses, Trumpet 

 Creeper, Virginia Creeper and Wistaria. Besides 

 these, there are a host of small woodland wild flow- 

 ers and bulbs. We offer Hemlocks up to 24 feet in 

 height. 



Carolina. Tsuga Caroliniana. The Carolina Hem- 

 lock is a hardy, handsome tree of lighter green 

 color and foliage wider apart than the common. 



Old Hemlock Hedge 



We offer about 400 feet of hedge, as illustrated on 

 page II. It is about 30 years old and has a mature, 

 long-established appearance. It most closely re- 



Screen to stable at Oyster Bay, L. I. 



Old Hemlock Hedge, continued 



sembles the famous Yew hedges of England. There 

 are thousands of dollars annually wasted by im- 

 porting English Yew, which dies or gets ragged in a 

 few years. This hedge has been root-pruned to 

 prepare it for successful transplanting. It can be 

 taken up in numbered sections and planted as it 

 was before. It is far cheaper than brick or stone 

 walls to surround a formal garden, and much more 

 beautiful and has none of the raw, new look of such 

 walls. It can be delivered on our tree-movers over 

 a wide radius on the good roads of Long Island, or 

 it can be shipped by rail. 



This hedge offers an unequaled opportunity to 

 architects and landscape architects to obtain im- 

 mediate results for their clients. 



See similar hedge that we moved for laundry- 

 yard screen for Mr. W. G. Oakman. 



Juniper Juniperus 



Common. Juniperus communis, var. Canadcnsis. 

 This is a common plant on the abandoned pas- 

 tures of New England, and is occasionally found 

 wild on Long Island. It forms a broad, spreading 

 mat of ascending branches, sometimes 15 feet 

 wide and 3 feet high. It is a useful plant for low 

 evergreen groups or for edging taller groups 

 for the top of a terrace or near the seashore. 

 Golden. /. communis, var. Canadensis aurea. 

 This is the best low golden evergreen. It is of a 

 bright clear color and remains low. We have a 

 stock of it which has been sheared and roots 

 pruned and gives good mature effect, the plants 

 being 5 to 8 years old. 



We recommend it for beds of ever- 

 greens, as described under Retinospora. 

 Prostrate, or Trailing. J. Sabina, var. pros- 

 trata. This is a very distinct species, being 

 wholly prostrate and spreading along the 

 ground in wide circles. It has a dark green 

 color and a moss-like texture. Along the 

 coast of Maine it clings to the rock within 

 reach of the surf. It is appropriate for the 

 top of a stone wall, at the side of terrace 

 steps, or at the edge of groups of evergreens. 

 In the dry portion of a rock-garden, it 

 will be especially at home. Some of the 

 plants are a dark green color and others 

 blue, the latter being the variety Hud- 



Chinese. J. Chinensis, var. procumbens. 

 This is an even more compact bed of moss 

 than the preceding. In Japan it is used for 

 holding the drifting sand dunes, showing 

 that their horticulture has advanced farther 

 than ours in making plants work for man- 

 kind. The oldest plant in our Nursery is 

 5 feet in diameter and about 8 inches high. 

 It has been growing ten years. The plant 

 makes such an even growth as to suggest 

 its use instead of grass in covering the 

 ground. The color in winter is a brighter 

 green than any similar evergreen. It is 

 pleasant to walk upon. 



Irish. /. communis, var. Hibernica. While 

 this plant has decided uses in landscape 

 gardening, we have decided to grow as 

 little of it as possible because it is so fre- 

 quently winter-killed. It is a narrow 

 pillar, perhaps I foot in diameter and 6 

 feet high. 



