Isaac Hicks &- Son, Westbury Station, 5Y- Y. Preface 



PREFACE 



HIS is a different nursery. It fills a wider range of landscape needs. It saves more years of 

 your lifetime. It offers trees which more accurately fit the requirements of your soil and 

 climate. 



Over fifty years ago the Westbury Nurseries were founded by Isaac Hicks. The constant 

 aim has been to fit Long Island, recognizing its marked difference from the mainland in 

 geology, soil, drainage, ocean influence, humidity, severe winds, drought, peculiar agricultural and suburban 

 conditions. 



Our Nurseries may be reached by the good stone and gravel roads for which Nassau county is famous. 

 Westbury station is twenty-two miles from Long Island City on the main line of the Long Island railroad. 

 It has over twenty trains per day. Many visit our Nurseries by taking a hack from Mineola, with forty- 

 three trains per day, whereby a half-day trip can be easily arranged. Mineola has lines of trolley to Roslyn 

 and Port Washington, to Hyde Park and Jamaica, to Hempstead, thence in two directions to Queens and 

 Jamaica, and to Freeport, Lynbrook, Rockville Center, Valley Stream and Jamaica. 



Planting Seasons. The spring season commences about March I to 10, when the frost is nearly 

 out of the ground. For deciduous trees and shrubs it continues to about May 10, but many trees and shrubs 

 can be moved later than that by stripping off the foliage or by taking them with a ball of earth. Evergreen 

 trees can be moved in the spring and during May and June, because they are taken with a ball of earth. 

 For evergreens, August and September are also excellent months, a fact but little known, but which should 

 be widely utilized, as it enables many to plant who cannot get all accomplished in the spring. Large ever- 

 greens, 8 to 40 feet high, are safely moved with balls of earth any week in the year. (See, also, evergreens, 

 page 29.) 



Hardv flowers can be planted in spring, and we have no trouble in making them live, even after they 

 have started growth in May and June, for they are taken up with a good-sized. mass of earth on the roots. 

 September and October are excellent months for planting these hardy flowers, as they get well established 

 before winter. 



Deciduous trees are moved in the autumn, from the time the leaves ripen in September until hard 

 freezing of the ground in late December or January. A month can be added to the usual planting season 

 by starting in September and stripping off the leaves. It makes no difference whether the foliage is stripped 

 off by hand, or whether it is taken off a few weeks later by the frost. The moving of deciduous trees can 

 continue all winter by mulching the trees and the sites to keep out the frost. 



Fall planting is not advised with Magnolias, Tulip, Liquidambar, and a few other varieties, unless 

 they have balls of earth. The reason is that some have soft, spongy bark on the roots, which decays unless 

 the ground is warm as in April, so that new growth can take place immediately. 



Kindly remember this: The time of the year for transplanting is not one-tenth as important as people 

 imagine it. Permanent fitting of trees to the conditions is the most important. We attend to both. 



Tree-Planting, Tree-Moving, Spraying and Pruning. We furnish competent foremen and men 

 for various kinds of horticultural work on Long Island and elsewhere. We wish to limit it mostly to planting 

 stock from our Nursery and to moving large trees. 



BUSINESS TERMS 



Prices and Delivery. Prices on ordinary-sized nursery stock are usually for stock dug and loaded 

 at the Nursery. Delivery by wagon is charged according to distance and expense. Stock to be shipped by 

 freight or express will be carefully packed in straw bales and boxes charged at cost. Delivery to railroad 

 is free, where our responsibility ceases. 



Large trees on a tree-mover, and large evergreens, are priced as follows: (i) To include delivery and 

 planting in hole prepared by us; (2) to include delivery and planting when hole is prepared and assistance 

 rendered by purchaser; or, (3) delivery and planting charged by the day. 



Landscape Plans. The charge for landscape plans, consultation and supervision is made according 

 to the time and expense or price previously agreed upon. 



Terms of Payment. NET CASH. Accounts will be subject to sight draft sixty days from the date 

 of shipment. Unknown correspondents should send satisfactory reference or cash with order. Money 

 orders may be obtained for Westbury Station, Nassau County, New York. 



We desire that all our customers be fully satisfied, and wish to be promptly notified of any 

 errors that they may be rectified. We do not agree to consider complaints later than ten days after delivery. 



True to Name. Without boasting infallibility, we warrant our stock true to name and will replace 

 any that may prove otherwise or refund the original price, but we will not be held responsible for more 

 than the original price of the trees. 



Substitution. Late in the season we may be out of some varieties and sizes of fruit and other trees, 

 and will substitute similar varieties and sizes unless otherwise ordered. 



Guarantee. The living of trees is largely dependent upon conditions of weather and after-care beyond 

 the nurseryman's control, therefore we do not guarantee trees to live after leaving the Nursery in good 

 condition, without previous agreement and special price. If guarantee is desired, customers are requested 

 to so state when asking prices. 



Address all orders to Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, Nassau County, New York. Local and 

 long-distance telephone, 68 Westbury. Telegraphic address, Westbury Station, New York. 



