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



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Group of Scotch, Austrian, Red and Mugho Pines planted in 1893 from our plans made for Mr. J.F. D. Lanier, now 

 the residence of Mr. Chas. R. Steele, Westbury. We have Pines like these for immediate shipment, and little Pines that will 

 grow such forests for $ 1 per acre. 



White Pine Pinus Strobus 



See back cover for large-moved Pine 



The White Pine is the biggest and noblest evergreen of its region. It is native from the southern 

 Appalachian mountains to Long Island, Canada and westward to Minnesota. It is the most valuable 

 timber tree of the region, and the rapid advance in price shows the folly in this country of not heeding 

 the example of European countries and encouraging a second growth, either by natural seeding from a few 

 mother trees left for the purpose, or by artificial planting. The preservation of forests on the water-sheds is 

 important; it lessens destruction from floods and 

 loss from low water for navigation and power. 

 In the state of Maine there are many 

 people who say that they have cut hay or 

 dug potatoes thirty or forty years ago, where 

 now the portable saw-mills turn out a highly 

 profitable crop of White Pine lumber. The 

 land was abandoned, and was re-seeded by 

 old trees standing a few hundred feet away. 

 These areas would be very much more profit- 

 able, if, like the forests of Germany and 

 France, the trees had been planted or thinned 

 out to uniform distances, thus making clear 

 lumber. 



You have realized the need of forest 

 preservation for the generation now living 

 and for the future. Here is a chance to try it. 

 Small trees have probably not been offered 

 to you that are cheap and sure to grow. Now 

 is the time to start. You and all who see and 

 hear about the forest you planted will learn 

 how easy it is to grow timber. Perhaps your 

 land is too valuable for a crop of timber. It is 

 an object lesson and a good investment, 

 nevertheless. The trees will improve the 

 selling value of your land. They will improve 

 its value for residences. 



In our Nursery you will see beds of White 

 Pine two years old. They look as even as 

 green moss. The Professors of Forestry say 

 that this is the economical size to plant. With 

 compound interest for thirty or fifty years, it 

 makes a great difference how cheaply the 

 plantation is started. Planting a Pine forest 

 is simple open a cleft and plant. When 

 that fact is generally known, there will be 

 a great advance in forestry in this country. 

 The unknown and imaginary difficulties of 

 growing trees, and fire protection, are as 

 great a handicap as the American get-rich- 

 quick spirit, and the annual tax on growing 

 timber. 





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Pine and Oak is the strongest, best, longest-lived, cheapest to start 

 and maintain; beautiful combination for Long Island. Planted on 

 the gravelly side - hill next the railroad, on the grounds of Mr. 

 Clarence H. Mackey, Roslyn. Guy Lowell, Landscape Architect. 



