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The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



BLUEBERRY 



OAK, 



CHRISTMAS 

 TREB v 



HOW TO GET PLANTS IN WINTER 



YOU 

 CAN DO 

 IN DECEMBER 



Suggestions From 



HENRY HICKS 



YOU can plant all, or nearly all 

 winter if you plan for it. On Long 

 Island it does not freeze enough to stop 

 planting until the last of December or 

 frequently the middle of January. Further inland it freezes more deeply. By mulching we keep 

 out frost and have planted all winter for the past twenty years with the exception of three or four 

 years where it froze through the mulch in late January or February. Mulching is not an extrava- 

 gance but it is the cheapest way to feed your plants. 



Two Dollars For One 



To encourage winter planting we will add free to your order twice what it costs you to mulch. 

 Suppose you wish a boundary of evergreens, oaks, beech and shrubs. We will mulch the ground 

 for you or credit you as above. 



Truck loads as sketched are delivered and planted nearly all winter. On mild days trees with- 

 out balls of earth are planted. You can shut off the street, and unsightly buildings, make a sheltered 

 play ground, or a foundation planting of dwarf evergreens, rhododendrons, laurel and hollies. 



You don't enjoy putting off gardening plans. Remembering them is a burden to the mind 

 and interferes with the planning of what to do next. December can be a month of accomplish- 

 ment, not longing. You can use most of the winter for the improvement of your place without 

 adding to the cost. You can keep the staff at your country place profitably occupied so as to 

 get the most from your time and land. 



Old places where the planting needs thinning out or re-arranging is where winter planting can 

 be highly valuable. You will be surprised how little it freezes under the shrubs and evergreens. 

 Mark what needs to be thinned out and mulch. If it is frozen you will find that you can pick 

 through with heavy pick axes. Send us photographs or sketches of the changes you plan. Per- 

 haps where you take out the shrubs, you would like to put in evergreens to make all winter beauty 

 and shelter. Come to the nursery and pick out oak, pine, fir, 5 to 25 years old. Large trees 20 to 

 60 ft. high we can move for you this winter. 



A good Christmas present is a truckload. It will not clutter up the house as other Christmas 

 presents may. Plants nearly take care of themselves and grow more valuable. December is the 

 time to plant a flower garden, berry bushes, grape vines, asparagus, rhubarb, apple and pears. 

 Consider our time saving apples and pears 5 years old at $7.00 each. 



Because you are far away don't think nothing can be done until spring. Send the order and 

 we will send what is best and take the risk and defer the balance until spring. 



Send for Home Landscapes, Commuter's Edition will teach and amuse. 



Live Christmas trees is a new fashion. You 

 can take it up. Trees crated with a ball of earth 

 for planting afterwards. Nikko Fir 3 ft. high 

 $6.00; s ft. high $10.00; 6 ft. high $15.00; 

 Douglas Spruce 6 to 8 ft. high $15.00. 



Henry Hicks. 



Hicks Nurseries 



Box M 



Westbury, 

 L. I., N. Y. 



MULQH TO 



KEEP OUT FROST 



Flower Gathering 



New and charming for the 

 flower lover 



GAY cretonne circular bag gathers up into 5 com- 

 partments by black silk cord and carries on your 

 arm when in your garden. Then in house opens 24 

 inches flat on table and its rubberized surface pre- 

 vents table damage. Delightfully versed boxed with 

 hand tinted friendship card N22-45, $1.50. Postpaid. 



Have you ever seen our Catalogue of unusual 

 and charming gifts? Please send for it! 



DANIEL LOW 

 10 Townhouse Sq., 



& CO. 



Salem, Mass. 



My Unusual 

 Catalogue For 1922 



Will be of absorbing interest to 

 every lover of our exquisitely beaut- 

 iful Native Shrubs, Wild Flowers 

 and Ferns. It has been largely 

 rewritten and much helpful inform- 

 ation has been added. There are 

 more and better illustrations. Al- 

 together, it is by far the most in- 

 teresting, informative and attrac- 

 tive catalogue I have ever pub- 

 lished. 



Send For Your Copy To-day! 



It will be ready to mail soon after 

 January First and those who write 

 for it this month will be first to 

 receive it. 



EDWARD GILLETT 



Fern & Flower Farm 

 3 Main St., Southwick, Mass. 



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The West End Nursery 

 SAN RAFAEL CALIFORNIA 



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