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White Pine, continued 



October to March and June to August has been 

 entirely successful. When other people forget that 

 tree-planting can be done and discontinue ordering, 

 then is the time mid-winter or midsummer that 

 we move large evergreens for ourselves, and rind 

 it both economical and successful. 



Can you not profit by this example and order 

 Pines, Cedars and other evergreens moved in the 

 slack season? The trees are here; you have only to 

 call and see them, or write. We own White Pines 

 in different parts of the country and can look up 

 others. We can send tree-mover and men to move 

 them for you. Some landscape architects have not 

 become accustomed to the successful planting of 

 large trees, and the knowledge that an abundant 

 supply is available. Therefore, their clients have to 

 wait 10 to 20 years for results which we can furnish 

 in one or two years. 



Pitch Pine Pinus rigida 



Pitch Pine is the most abundant evergreen on 

 Long Island. Not one person in a hundred knows 

 its beauty and value for landscape planting. The 

 reason for this is that over 90 per cent of the Pitch 

 Pine forests have been repeatedly burned over, de- 

 stroying the lower branches of the trees and, what 

 is worse, destroying the best qualities of the soil. 



By the way, these forest fires in the Pine and 

 scrub Oak forests are largely responsible for the 

 poor reputation of a large part 

 of Long Island. These forest fires 

 can be largely prevented by apply- 

 ing the State Fire Warden Law, as 

 it is in the Adirondacks. 



The Pitch Pine has a dense, round head of sunny 

 green color. It looks alive all winter. It is a pleasure 

 to rest the eye on a grove of young trees with their 

 embossed and rounded sky-line. They need no care, 

 and thrive best on the poorest soil. For the first few 

 years they make more bulk than any other evergreen, 

 except the Scotch Pine. For the seaside they are the 

 best long-lived Pine yet tested for Long Island. 



Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of Arnold 

 Arboretum, Harvard, says of it "This tree is valu- 

 able because it can be raised more quickly and 

 cheaply in the northern states than any other coni- 

 fer from seeds scattered broadcast on the ground or 

 sowed in shallow drills; and no other conifer grows 

 here so rapidly on dry, sterile gravels, which it soon 

 covers with dense forests. It is often valuable, too, 

 where the soil is poor, as an ornamental tree, and 

 in old age it frequently becomes extremely pictur- 

 esque with its dark red-brown roughened and 

 deeply fissured bark, contorted branches and sparse 

 dark yellow-green rigid leaves which stand out 

 stiffly from the branchlets." 



Between Babylon and Bay Shore there are old 

 trees of it with the White Pine. The sea influence 

 has prevented the White Pine reaching it's best 

 development, but the Pitch Pines are venerable old 

 trees, well worthy of their position in a lawn. 



The Pitch Pine should form the backbone of 

 groups. It is especially adapted to what the 

 geologists call the Rockaway gravel, a formation 

 occuring only from Lynbrook to Far Rockaway. 

 It can be kept low and bushy by 

 an occasional trimming and look- 

 ing much better than the balloon- 

 shaped shrubs as usually pruned 

 in that region. 



The reason our Pines make a goo<J vigorous growth the first year, not short bunchy tips, is because we have them root- 

 pruned to produce numerous fibrous roots, and no expense or skill is spared to save them in digging. The roots are wrapped 

 against the ball and burlapped. In the center an 8-foot Hemlock crated for shipment. 



