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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1910 



This Norway Maple and the two Pin Oaks were moved here from our Nursery at Westbury, L. I 



About the Big Trees 

 Like These 



That We Have Been Growing For You 



Anyone can grow the smaller trees, but it took lots of 

 enthusiasm, a good deal of capital and an unusual knowl- 

 edge to produce these big trees, besides taking the risk of 

 educating people to see their great advantage over smaller 

 trees, and buy l/iem. 



There had been so many failures in transplanting big 

 trees that most of you simply shook your heads and looked 

 wise whenever it was mentioned. But now you know bet- 

 ter, because we have proven that trees even as large as 35 

 to 40 feet high, can be moved by our methods with perfect 

 safety, and planted in their new home, where they go on 

 growing as if they thoroughly enjoyed the change. 



When you stop to think of it, what a senseless thing it is 

 to buy several small trees and plant them here and there 

 on your grounds, and then have to be deprived of shade 

 and their beauty for fifteen or twenty years until they 

 grow up. Why do such a thing when you can buy a beauti- 

 ful Maple or Linden, 20 to 30 feet high, with a 10 to 18 

 feet spread, costing no more than a number of the pitiably 

 small specimens ? 



These big trees of ours give you immediate effects. At 

 once you have the shade you need, or the protection from 

 the street, or can immediately screen off some objection- 

 able feature on neighboring grounds. 



You spend your money for awnings, because you want 

 immediate protection, then why not buy our large trees, 

 which certainly are quite as essential to your comfort, and 

 which promptly add to the marketable value of your 

 property ? 



We have hundreds of Lindens and Maples, beautiful 

 specimens they are, which we will dig for you in October, 

 and guarantee them to ship safely and thrive when trans- 

 planted on your grounds. Then there are splendid Catal- 

 pas, Ash Trees, shapely Elms and unusually fine Pin Oaks. 

 Every one of these trees is from 15 to 30 feet high and has 

 a spread of 10 to 18 feet. These are the kind of trees to 

 plant right now. Don't wait till spring to do it, autumn 

 is decidedly the most favorable time. Come to our nursery 

 and we wiU tell you exactly why. 



If you can't come and select just the trees and shrubs 

 you want, then write us and we will send you a particularly 

 interesting catalog that covers the subject most com- 

 prehensively — one that is untrammelled by the usual 

 technical presenting. It is inter^ting, and the illustrations 

 illustrate just what you want to know. The price list 

 is a short road to ordering trees by mail. Come if you 

 can — if you can't come, send for the catalog and unusual 

 price list. 



Isaac Hicks and Son 



Westbury, Long Island 



FALL PLANTING SEASON IS HERE 



More Than 600 Acres of Choicest Hursery Produce 



We can furnish Ornamental, Deciduous, Shade and Weeping 

 Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Barberry, Privet, Evergreens, Con- 

 ifers, Hardy Trailing Vines, Climbers and everything for the 

 Home Garden, including Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes, etc. 



The Finest Collection of Maple Trees in America 



We make a specialty of Moving Large Trees, with a ball 

 of earth. We have been doing this work for a number of years 

 and have been most successful, and will gladly show the work 

 to any one. 



We will make a planting plan of your place, selecting trees, 

 shrubs, etc., suitable to soil and situation, and give you the 

 exact cost of planting the same. 



Write for Catalos^ue A and histritction Booh 



The Stephen floyt's Sons Company 



Established 1848-Incorporated 1903 



Telephone, 79-2 



New CanaaD, Conn* 



VICK'S 



Narcissus, Tulip 

 Crocus, Hyacinth 



BULBS 



Grown by a particular grower in Holland 

 for a particular trade in America. 



The Poet's Narcissus, 25 cents dozen ; 

 75 cents hundred. 



May-flowering Tulip in mixture, 30 cents 

 dozen; $1.50 hundred. 



Crocus, separate colors, 1 5 cents a dozen ; 

 60 cents hundred. 



Hyacinths, Single, mixed colors, 75 cents 

 dozen ; $4.00 per hundred. 



At hundred price we do not prepay 

 postage. 



Vick's Bulb Catalogue, superbly illus- 

 trated, tells the whole story. Sent 

 free to anyone who asks for it, 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 

 362 Main St. Rochester, N. Y. 



LOOK OUT 

 FOR. SPARKS 



No more danger or damage from flying 

 sparks. No more poorly fitted, flimsy fire- 

 place screens. Send for free booklet 

 " Sparks from the Fire-side." Ittells about 

 the best kind of a spark guard for your in- 

 dividual fireplace. Write to-day for free 

 booklet and make your plans early. 



The Syracuse Wire Works 



103 University Avunue, • SyracusOj N. Y» 



BETTER SPRAY YOUR TREES! 



San Jose Scale and other pests are hatching trouble in your orchard 

 right now. Stop it by spraying with a strong solution of 



GOOD'S ^"o?ilii' WHALE OIL SOAP No. 3 



Protects the trees and enriches the soil. Contains no salt, sul- 

 phur, mineral oils or anything injurious. Used and endorsed by U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture and State Experiment Stations. 



50 lbs. S2. so; 100 lbs. J4, so; larger quantities proportionately less. 

 Send for free "Manual of Plant Diseases." 

 JAMES eOOU, Orieinal Maker, 981 ]V. Front St., Philadelphia 



JOHNSON'S KLEEN FLOOR FREE 



Send postal for sample to prove that it takes out floor stains -without injuring 

 the finish and that you can restore original beauty to any hcU"dwood floor, 

 stairs, etc. Send postal now for Booklet Edition G. M. lo 



S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Racine, Wis. 



REECO WATER SYSTEM 



Write to our nearest office for Catalogue U. 



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Thousands of these marvelous engines— in actual use to-day 



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Demand is overwhelming. 



Kerosene (common coal oil) runs it with 

 tvonderful economy. Kerosene generally 

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The Amazing 



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Any engine you want, from 2 to zo H. P., sent on 15 days' free trial- 

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