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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 few 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. 
FTISSOCABTA, New trees of the hickory family, which grow with surprising rapidity, 
resemble the black walnut. They usually grow with several trunks. 
The leaves 
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 BUSH (Amelanchier canadensis) . A shrub, 
or small tree, flowering with the earliest. Plant 
with hemlocks as a background for its fleecy white 
flowers. 
SOFHORA. A locust-like tree, with cream-colored 
flowers in summer. 
STYRAX. 
bells. 
A neat little tree, hung full of snowdrop 
ENGLISH THORN. 
The Quick, or Quick-Set, of English hedges, is a handsome 
tree, with finely divided leaves. Its varieties are very 
beautiful. 
I SUMACH, Staghorn. A shrub, sometimes rising to 
§ the stature of a tree with a single trunk. In early 
I autumn the color is brilliant. The other species 
are shrubs. 
TULIP 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. 
Paul'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. 
