At the right, Linden and Maple, moved for Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. Incidentally a screen planting to 
the laundry paddock. 
PREFACE, 
NEW and distinct type of nursery is shown in the Westbury 
Nurseries in the growing of large trees for immediate landscape 
results. No establishment in this country or Europe grows such 
a quantity or variety of large trees. The nursery was founded 
half a century ago, and many of the trees now available for 
moving were planted in the first decade of the business as 
specimens, and allowed to attain perfect development. More 
than twenty-five acres -are devoted to the growing of extra-sized trees; the trees 
being placed 8 to 40 feet apart, permitting ample sunlight, air and soil. The object 
is not how cheap, but how perfect. A tree 4 inches in diameter, 20 feet high, may 
be in a close crowded block 2 or 3 feet away from adjoining trees. Neither good 
roots nor wide top can exist. Our trees are grown wide apart, and such a tree will 
be 12 feet from its neighbors, with wide, low-branched top and perfect root system, 
The latter is worth many times the former. These trees will give immediate results. 
They are not mere promises of future shade and beauty. The large evergreen trees 
are 8 to 35 feet high, 10 to 50 years old, and are kept in perfect condition for 
transplanting. The usual sizes kept in nurseries, as trees 6 to 14 feet, and ever- 
greens 1 to 5 feet, we offer of the best possible grade. 
Arboretum and Test Orchards. P, ur , arbor< ; tum 1 and J c f tai t n nurser y 
■ blocks contain hundreds of new and 
rare species of trees from Siberia, Japan, China, Europe and other temperate regions, 
that are being tested to determine their value here. Extensive test orchards estab- 
lished over sixty years ago by the late Isaac Hicks have proved that many varieties 
thriving inland are inferior to other sorts here. 
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