Seaside List 
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ISAAC HICKS & SON 
Seaside List 
DE^ciDuous tri:e.s 
Sycamore Maple, 
Norway Maple, 
Red Maple, 
Oriental Plane, 
Wild Cherry, 
Red Cedar, 
Austrian Pine, 
Scotch Pine, 
Indian Currant, 
Privet, 
Marsh Elder, 
Rugosa Rose, 
Trailing, or Memorial 
Rose, 
Carolina Rose, 
Virginia Creeper, 
Japanese Honeysuckle, 
Japanese Ivy, 
Sea Sand-Reed, or Am- 
mophylla, 
Catalpa, 
Japanese Poplar, 
Carolina Poplar, 
Pin Oak, 
Scarlet Oak, 
English Oak, 
- Red Oak, 
Willow, in variety. 
Yellow Locust, 
Honey Locust, 
Red Pine, 
Mugho Pine, 
Juniper, 
White Spruce, 
Douglas Spruce, 
Colorado Spruce, 
SHRUBS 
Sumach, 
Bayberry, 
Beach Plum, 
High-bush H u c k 1 e - 
berry. 
Upright Honeysuckle, 
Lilac, 
Spirea, 
Blackberry, 
Blackcap, 
Tamarix, 
Barberry, 
Elder, 
Alder, 
VINILS 
Wistaria, 
Myrtle, 
Trumpet Creeper, 
Bitter Sweet, 
hi:rbaci:ous plants 
Couch, or Quack Grass, 
Beach Pea, 
Swamp Rose Mallow, 
Seaside Goldenrod, 
Mulberry, 
White Birch, 
Canoe Birch, 
Euonymus, 
Ailanthus. 
Norway Spruce, 
Nordmann's Fir, 
Concolor Fir. 
Buttonbush, 
Viburnum dentatum, 
Cornus paniculata, 
Holly, 
Inkberry, 
Yucca, 
Bearberry. 
Wild Morning-Glory, 
Matrimony Vine. 
Cactus, etc. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMILNTS 
In writing this Catalogue we desire to acknowledge the following authorities : 
''Cyclopedia of American Horticulture" : : : : 
"The Rhododendron" : : : : : 
"The Fertility of the Land" : : : : : 
"The Soil" : : . : : : : 
" Elementary Meteorology " : : : : : 
"Pleistocene Geology of portions of Nassau County and Borough of Queens"* 
Thanks are also due to Messrs. Veatch and Bowman, of the United States Geologial Survey, who 
are preparing a report on the geology and water supply of Long Island, in connection with the New 
York City Water Commissioners ; and J. A. Bonsteel, of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, Division of Soils, who has prepared a map of the soil of Long Island. 
L. H. Bailey 
E. S. Rand, Jr. 
I. P. Roberts 
F. H. King 
W. M. Davis 
J. B. Wood worth 
*Obtaiiiable ol New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. Price, 25 cents. 
ZONES or PLANT LIFE 
In the distribution of trees according to zones of physical climate, Long Island is in the cold temperate zone 
of deciduous trees. The boundaries are not closely marked. Deciduous trees predominate in the forest, as 
oak, beech, birch, maple, elm, poplar, chestnut, dogwood, ash, linden, hickory and tulip tree. 
The native evergreens are typical of the two bordering zones. Holly, inkberry, laurel and rhododendron 
extend from the warm temperate zone of broad-leaved evergreens; white pine and hemlock extend from the 
sub-arctic zone of conifers— the cone-bearing trees with evergreen needle-shaped leaves. The warm temperate 
zone has winter, mostly without severe frost, and from Washington southward is characterized by broad-leaved 
evergreens, as holly, live-oak and Magnolia grandiflor a. The sub-arctic zone, from the Catskill mountains and 
Maine northward, has winters with nearly continuous freezing, and the forests are mostly fir, spruce and pine. 
For Long Island, evergreens must be selected from portions of these three zones most closely resembling ours, 
avoiding mainly those of western coasts with an equable climate, as England and Oregon, and including those 
of eastern coasts, as this and Japan, and the interiors of the continents, as Colorado and the Caucasus moun- 
tains, which have a widely variable climate with extremes similar to ours. See map page 5. 
Long Island is fortunate in having been, for two centuries, the testing ground of the beautiful trees of the 
.world. Many evergreens need from 50 to 100 years' test. Plant according to these tests and the scientific know- 
ledge we have made available, and the many mistakes now made to vex the sense of beauty or economy will 
^be avoided. 
