White Spruce, White Pine and Arborvitae (the latter trained for formal gardening) growing in our nurseries, 
and ready for transplanting. 
Ebergreen Trees 
(CONIFERS AND TAXIDS) 
-^^^ HE beauty of evergreens in the winter landscape will be better appreciated when the 
**^3P/5il3l cheerful Pines, Firs and Blue Spruces now available are more extensively planted. 
^^^^^m There is a richness, warmth and finish to a home embellished with plantations of well- 
' <tfg&jK$L chosen evergreens, in strong contrast to one surrounded only by leafless reminders of 
|f Evergreens form the most fitting background to the brilliant coloring of the chang- 
ing autumn leaves, and in spring they give a southern and verdant character on the 
first sunny day, long before the other trees burst their buds. In summer their foliage often exceeds 
other trees in beauty. 
Belts and groves of evergreens have in their congregated strength the power of shelter and protec- 
tion. Many a Long Island place, almost uninhabitable from the rude blasts of wind that sweep over its 
level surface, has been made comfortable ; and many a garden, so exposed that the cultivation of trees 
and plants was almost impossible, rendered sufficiently mild for the growth of tender plants by ever- 
greens. In the lee of such protection the children can play out-of-doors on sunny days all winter, and 
the early garden operations in March, when the first flowers appear, may be superintended without 
discomfort. 
An evergreen belt north of greenhouses materially reduces expense for coal. Lots in suburban 
towns will sell readily at higher prices if there are evergreen windbreaks. Garden City and Hempstead 
do not build up on the north because of this lack. 
The ideal arrangement is an open breeze-way over the lawn for the cool southwest sea breeze, a 
canopy of shade over the house, piazza and terrace, and a shelter-belt on the north of the house and 
pleasure gardens. Our tree-movers make this possible. Evergreens 15 to 40 feet high are ready. 
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