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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, New York 



AVENUE OF SILVER MAPLES IN BROOKLYN. 



The best cheap street tree, the quickest in growth and the longest-lived of the low-cost trees, being, in this soil 

 superior to the poplar. Some object to its tendency to split in the wind, but this is due to wrong pruning, which produces 

 several long branches, instead of a single trunk. The borer is easily killed by injecting a tew drops of carbon bi- 

 sulphide in the hole, and quickly plugging with putty. In form the Silver Maple approaches the elm, and on many 

 of our roads it forms an arching canopy of shade, much better and quicker than the elm. We have selected trees 

 grown 8 feet apart and 20 feet high ; also, trees 25 to 30 feet high, with 15 feet spread of branches and roots, and with 

 8-inch trunk, for immediate effect. 



FTEROCARYA. New trees of the hickory family, which grow with surprising rapidity, 

 resemble the black walnut. They usually grow with several trunks. 



The leaves 



ENGLISH THORN. 



The Quick, or Quick-Set, of English hedges, is a handsome 

 tree, with finely divided leaves. Its varieties are very 

 beautiful. 



SASSAFRAS. When grown as a single lawn tree 

 this makes a pretty round- topped tree of pleasing 

 green aromatic foliage, quite surpassing its brother 

 of the hedgerow. 



SHAD "BJJSIS, {Amelanchier canadensis) . A shrub, 

 or small tree, flowering with the earliest. Plant 

 with hemlocks as a background for its fleecy white 

 flowers. 



SOFKORA. A locust-like tree, with cream-colored 

 flowers in summer. 



STYRAX. 



bells. 



A neat little tree, hung full of snowdrop 



SUMACH, Stagrhorn. A shrub, sometimes rising to 

 the stature of a tree with a single trunk. In early 

 autumn the color is brilliant. The other species 

 are shrubs, 



TUIiIF TREE {Liriodendron Tulipifera). For de- 

 scription and illustration, see page 14. 



THORN (Hawthorn, Cratcegus'). The Hawthorns 

 are a genus of beautiful small trees of picturesque 

 sky-line. They are a valuable class of lawn trees, 

 and may be used in shrubberies. 

 English. For description, see under cut. 



Faul's Double Scarlet. Very showy when in 

 flower, being a mass of clustered, double rose- 

 like blossoms. It is quick-growing, but not a large 

 tree. 



