Garden of Mr. Thomas Harris, Westbury, Long Island. Pastel by Miss Mary Helen Carlisle, New York City. A half acre place bordered with 

 evergreens and berried shrubs to attract the birds; bird baths, a playground for children and plant lovers. The best you can do for the insect eating birds is 

 to supply automatic food in the hungry-lime from October till April. In our garden the robins live on holly, wild rose and highbush cranberry until the 

 thawing ground lets the angle worms come up. 



GARDEN TREASURES FOR OCTOBER PLANTING 



Mr. Plant Lover — More than half of the following list are the new things that the Arnold Arboretum has been trying to get you to plant. 

 These plants are guaranteed to grow satisfactorily. Be the first to have the fun of growing them: 



Hawthorn. From the famous collection of John Dunbar, Highland Park. Rochester. Plants 

 1 2-3' #0.75 each; $6.00 per 10; $50.00 per 100. 



Winterberry or Black Alder, ij' $0.60 each; $5.00 per 10; $40.00 per 100. 



Japanese Dogwood. Rare, sweet globular fruit, flowers like the white, but a month later. 

 3' $1.00 each; $7.50 per 10; $60.00 per 100. 



White Dogwood. 5' $1.50 each; $12.50 per 10; $100.00 per 100. 



Red-flowering Dogwood. 5' $6.00 each; $50.00 per 10. 



Chinese Christmas Berry. Red berries like its relative, the Shad-bush, in December. 



3' $0.50 each; $4.00 per 10. 



Turquoise Berry. Symplocus paniculata. 1' $1.00 each; $7.50 per 10. 



Mulberry. Morus acidosa. New species introduced by Arnold Arboretum. 3' $0.75 each; 



$5.00 per 10. 



Shad-bush. Amelanchier canadensis. The first white flower to bloom. I-i'high, $0.50 each; 



$4.00 per 10; $25.00 per 100. 



Amelanchier spicata. Dwarf shrub of the pine barrens growing 3' high. 1' $0.50 each; 



$4.00 per 10. 



Japanese Holly. Ilex crenata. Small evergreen leaves, black berries. 1' $1.00 each; 

 , $9.00 per 10. 



Aronia melanocarpa. Black Chokeberry. Feeds the birds all winter; used for mince pies in 

 Maryland. Clumps $1.50 each; $30.00 per 100; $150.00 per IOOO. 



Crab Apple. Ten varieties. The fruit is delicious when frozen and decayed in the winter. 



2-4' $1.50 each; $12.50 per 10. 



Beach Plum. Prunus maritima. Beach plum jam is good for school lunch and the birds like 



the fruit. Here is an opportunity to make a hedge on sand dunes or cover a sandy field. 



1 ¥ $0.40 each; $2.50 per 10; $20.00 per roo 



Bayberry. Myrica cerifera. Thrives with the above, berries make fragrant candles. I2-3' 



$0.30 each; $2.50 per 10; $20.00 per 100. 



Barberry. 3 rare species, amurensis, aristata and heteropoda. 2' $1.00 each; $7-5° P er IO - 



Arrowwood. Viburnum dentatum. 2' $0.75 each; $6.00 per 10. If you want big shrubs try 



these 5-7' high and the next 4-6' high at $3.00 each; $27.50 per 10; $250.00 per 100. 



Swamp blueberry. Vaccinium corymbosum. 2' $2.00 each; $17.50 per 10; $150.00 per 100. 



Mix in oak leaves or peat. Learn how to grow the varieties developed by Prof. F. C. Coville, 



U. S. Botanist. They are \" in diameter. They represent the greatest achievement in plant 



breeding of fruit adapted to acid soils. 



American Holly. Ilex opaca. 1' $2.50 each. 



Cotoneaster. Ten species. New and charming plants, some growing close to the ground, 



others tall shrubs. $1.00 each. 



For the boundary of your garden you can plant in October carloads and trucldoads of Pines, Spruce, and Fir 5 to 15' high, and later add a Live Christmas Tree. 

 For big trees plant in October broad oak, fragrant honey-producing Linden or a Maple. They will save you 5 to 25 years. Send for "Home Landscapes" a helpful 

 catalogue. In October you can plant all the hardy flowers shown in this picture and many others. You can plant Hazelnuts, Japanese Walnuts. The best way 

 is to come to the nursery, load up your car or order a truckload. If you want a new hobby, take up cover plants for carpet under shrubs, as wintergreen, 

 arbutus, myrtle, etc. Hardy flowers for October planting, in mixture, our selection $8.00 per 100. Send for bargain list giving full description. 



HICKS NURSERIES 



Department M 



Westbury, Long Island, N. Y. 



THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. 



