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HICKS’ TREES 
Straight from Hicks’ Own Nursery 
ND avery unusual nursery it is. 
A nursery filled with the 
choicer standard ornamental 
trees. Trees from 3 inches to 40 feet 
high, and in price from Ic. each to 
$150. You are bound to find what 
you need at this nursery. 
Big trees thrive when moved by 
Hicks’ special tree movers and Hicks’ 
method of preserving a wide spread 
of unharmed roots. 
One of our catalogs called ‘‘Hicks’ 
Trees’’ shows not only the trees in the 
nursery but how we can go to your 
region, look over the country fora 
radius of several miles, and move to 
your grounds the best available trees 
for landscape effects. An absolutely 
bald knob ona Connecticut estate we 
transformed into an ideal building 
location by moving to it Elms and 
Maples 30 to 50 years old. 
May is a good shipping and plant- 
ing month for Cedars, Evergreens and 
Rhododendrons. We have unusually cee 
fine specimens of each. Come tothe | Some os es 
Nursery and see for yourself. If you B 
can’t come—then order by mail. 
Your shipments will be prompt and 
to your satisfaction. 
ISAAC HICKS & SON, Westbury,L.I. 
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~ A fine Norway Maple like this one costs $20.00 to $35.00 
We have hundreds like it in our nursery. 
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CONSIDER THE LILIES 
(Continued from page xvi) 
Speciosums in half shade. 
August’s glory. 
Of clear pink lilies the new rubellum 
stands ahead. It has all the good quali- 
ties of the speciosums with a wonderful 
soft pink color. It blooms in June with 
Kremeri, another beautiful rose-colored 
lily, whose flowers are very large and 
faintly sweet. ubellum grows a little 
the taller and should stand behind Kre- 
meri. 
L. Thunbergianum, or elegans, variety 
roseum, 1s one of the prettiest of pink 
lilies. It is early, will grow for anyone 
in full sunshine with plenty of food, and 
is dainty enough to grace a queen’s gar- 
den. 
Where pink lilies shade into rosy yel- 
low or apricot tints, will stand L. Bate- 
manu, crowning its four foot stalk with 
three or four peachy blooms in July. In 
front of it should grow L. Wallacei. This 
grows only about three feet and is a 
capricious beauty. Sometimes its two or 
three immense flowers come in early July 
—again not until August. Some bulbs 
sold for Wallacet are not the delicate ap- 
ricot, but run to stronger shades, ap- 
proaching reddish yellow. 
L. elegans, variety Wilsom, is a beau- 
tiful low growing apricot lily, as easy to 
manage as all the elegans clan. It reaches 
only two feet and its hardiness and free- 
dom should make it a favorite. There 
are many varieties of L. elegans, shading 
from apricot through yellowish red to 
true red. All are excellent lilies for Am- 
erican gardens. They ask little; full sun- 
shine, rich diet and plenty of water when 
blooming. Most of them grow low— 
from one to three feet and bloom through 
June and July. They cost but a dollar 
or a dollar and fifty cents a dozen and 
are a fine investment for worshippers of 
the lily. 
With the elegans should be planted L. 
bulbiferum, sometimes catalogued L. um- 
bellatum. These grow to much the same 
height and run through about the same 
shades as L. elegans, needing the same 
treatment. Many bulbiferums have the 
loveliest tints, enhanced by black spots. 
It is one of the oldest lilies known. It 
holds its flowers directly up to the sun 
and, in favored situations, will bloom as 
early as May. 
The familiar tiger lily comes in orange- 
red shades. One who has never seen a 
large clump of it, well fed and flourish- 
ing, can hardly imagine its possibilities. 
Colored much like the tiger lily is L. 
Canadense, a native American lily. It 
grows wild in the East as far south as 
Georgia, always in low, marshy ground. 
In the garden it requires shade and plen- 
teous moisture, and mucky soil should 
be supplied if possible. It grows three 
to four feet high and blooms in June with 
very large lilies, the petals recurved to 
the stem and spotted. with brown or 
dark red. The variety flavum is clear 
yellow with the dark spots. It does not 
grow as strong as the variety rubrum, 
which is not true red but reddish-orange. 
L. superbum, another native lily, tak- 
ing exactly the same soil and position as 
L. Canadense, follows the latter in bloom. 
In late July and August and sometimes 
into September this grand lily will throw 
up its stalks four to six feet, bearing a 
candelabra of from twelve to twenty 
very open lilies, carried nearly face down 
and not much recurved. In color it va- 
ries from the orange-red of tiger lilies to 
They are 
