Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y. — Preface 
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PREFACE 
HIS is a different nursery. It fills a wider range of landscape needs. It saves more years of 
your lifetime. It offers trees which more accurately fit the requirements of your soil and 
. climate. 
Over fifty years ago the Westbury Nurseries were founded by Isaac Hicks. The constant 
aim has been to fit Long Island, recognizing its marked difference from the mainland in 
geology, soil, drainage, ocean influence, humidity, severe winds, drought, peculiar agricultural and suburban 
conditions. 
Our Nurseries may be reached by the good stone and gravel roads for which Nassau county is famous. 
Westbury station is twenty-two miles from Long Island City on the main line of the Long Island railroad. 
It has over twenty trains per day. Many visit our Nurseries by taking a hack from Mineola, with forty- 
three trains per day, whereby a half-day trip can be easily arranged. Mineola has lines of trolley to Roslyn 
and Port Washington, to Hyde Park and Jamaica, to Hempstead, thence in two directions to Queens and 
Jamaica, and to Freeport, Lynbrook, Rockville Center, Valley Stream and Jamaica. 
Planting Seasons. The spring season commences about March I to 10, when the frost is nearly 
out of the ground. For deciduous trees and shrubs it continues to about May 10, but many trees and shrubs 
can be moved later than that by stripping off the foliage or by taking them with a ball of earth. Evergreen 
trees can be moved in the spring and during May and June, because they are taken with a ball of earth. 
For evergreens, August and September are also excellent months, a fact but little known, but which should 
be widely utilized, as it enables many to plant who cannot get all accomplished in the spring. Large ever- 
greens, 8 to 40 feet high, are safely moved with balls of earth any week in the year. (See, also, evergreens, 
page 29.) 
Hardv flowers can be planted in spring, and we have no trouble in making them live, even after they 
have started growth in May and June, for they are taken up with a good-sized mass of earth on the roots. 
September and October are excellent months for planting these hardy flowers, as they get well established 
before winter. ; 
Deciduous trees are moved in the autumn, from the time the leaves ripen in September until hard 
freezing of the ground in late December or January. A month can be added to the usual planting season 
by starting in September and stripping off the leaves. It makes no difference whether the foliage is stripped 
off by hand, or whether it is taken off a few weeks later by the frost. The moving of deciduous trees can 
continue all winter by mulching the trees and the sites to keep out the frost. 
Fall planting is not advised with Magnolias, Tulip, Liquidambar, and a few other varieties, unless 
they have balls of earth. The reason is that some have soft, spongy bark on the roots, which decays unless 
the ground is warm as in April, so that new growth can take place immediately. 
Kindly remember this: The time of the year for transplanting is not one-tenth as important as people 
imagine it. Permanent fitting of trees to the conditions is the most important. We attend to both. 
Tree- Planting, Tree-Moving, Spraying and Pruning. We furnish competent foremen and men 
for various kinds of horticultural work on Long Island and elsewhere. We wish to limit it mostly to planting 
stock from our Nursery and to moving large trees. 
BUSINESS TERMS 
Prices and Delivery. Prices on ordinary-sized nursery stock are usually for stock dug and loaded 
at the Nursery. Delivery by wagon is charged according to distance and expense. Stock to be shipped by 
freight or express will be carefully packed in straw bales and boxes charged at cost. Delivery to railroad 
is free, where our responsibility ceases. 
Large trees on a tree-mover, and large evergreens, are priced as follows: (1) To include delivery and 
planting in hole prepared by us; (2) to include delivery and planting when hole is prepared and assistance 
rendered by purchaser; or, (3) delivery and planting charged by the day. 
Landscape Plans. This department has been discontinued, as explained on page 11 and on page 
3 of ou'r booklet on large trees, entitled Hicks' Trees. 
Terms of Payment. Net Cash. Accounts will be subject to sight draft sixty days from the date 
of shipment. Unknown correspondents should send satisfactory reference or cash with order. Money 
orders may be obtained for Westbury, Nassau County, New York. 
We desire that all our customers be fully satisfied, and wish to be promptly notified of any 
errors that they may be rectified. We do not agree to consider complaints later than ten days after delivery. 
True to Name. Without boasting infallibility, we warrant our stock true to name and will replace 
any that may prove otherwise or refund the original price, but we will not be held responsible for more 
than the original price of the trees. 
Substitution. Late in the season we may be out of some varieties and sizes of fruit and other trees, 
and will substitute similar varieties and sizes unless otherwise ordered. 
Guarantee. The living of trees is largely dependent upon conditions of weather and after-care be- 
yond the nurseryman's control, therefore we do not guarantee trees to live after leaving the Nursery in 
good condition, without previous agreement and special price. If guarantee is desired, customers are re- 
quested to so state when asking prices. 
Address all orders to Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, Nassau County, New York. Local and long- 
distance telephone, 68 Westbury. Telegraphic address, Westbury New York. 
