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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y.— Moving Large Trees 
as Maple, Elm, or Oak, of the same weight. Evergreens usually live on drier ground than deciduous trees. 
Their narrow leaves have less chance for evaporation. The function of the resin is to check evaporation, 
therefore, while an evergreen needs a constant supply of moisture, it needs much less than a deciduous tree 
to successfully re-establish itself after transplanting. 
We are able to economically load and transport these heavy trees, having invented several trucks for 
the purpose. One of them looks almost as strong as a freight car. In it the weight of the tree is about bal- 
anced on a steel shaft 4 in. in diameter, and the tree is swung over horizontally by two screws 9 ft. long. 
The result of our work has been almost a uniform success. No one need hesitate on that score. For a 
small percentage, we will guarantee the trees not to die from transplanting. 
The season for moving large evergreens is all the year. We endeavor to avoid moving large ever- 
greens during March, April and May. It is a good season for the work, but a large part of the deciduous 
trees and shrubs must be moved then, and the evergreen moving can be done equally well in August and 
September, and also during the winter. 
Long Island must inevitably become an all-the-year- round suburban residence region. Evergreens 
are essential, both to privacy and to beauty of the landscape. We have available over 2,000 large evergreens 
ready for delivery, and it is possible to save ten to thirty years waiting. For further discussion of ever- 
greens, see that department on page 29. 
We can ship evergreens up to 25 or 30 feet in height, by rail. They can be very safely shipped in this 
manner, because the ball of earth supplies moisture to the top. 
We have supplies of large evergreens in several parts of the country and can make quotation on deliv- 
eries in carload lots. 
We can look up a supply near a proposed planting, as mentioned under deciduous trees, and can send 
men and apparatus to move them. 
In addition to those represented by photographs, the following are some for whom we have moved 
large deciduous trees, 12 to 24 inches in diameter of trunk, 25 to 65 feet high and spreading 20 to 45 feet, 
or large evergreen trees 18 to 35 feet high. 
F. Lothrop Ames, North Easton, Mass.; Mrs. George T. Bliss, New York; Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Hemp- 
stead, L. I.; Winthrop Burr, Cedarhurst, L. I.; Robert L. Burton, Cedarhurst, L. I.; Arthur Brisbane, Hemp- 
stead, L. I.; Middleton, S. Burrill, Jericho, L. I.; Robert Bacon, Westbury, L. I.; Paul D. Cravath, Locust Val- 
ley, L. I.; Paul Dana, Dosoris, Glen Cove, L. I.; Lewis Eldridge, Hempstead, L. I.; Albert Francke, Lawrence, 
L. I.; Garden City Co., Garden City, L. I.; William D. Guthrie, Locust Valley, L. I.; August Heckscher, Hun- 
tington, L. I.; Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Westbury, L. I.; Clement S. Houghton, Newton, Mass.; George L. Hub- 
bell, Garden City, L. I.; Col. William Jay, Katonah, N. Y.; Marshall C. Lefferts, Lawrence, L. I.; Dr. D. H. 
McAlpin, Morris Plains, N. J.; Edward D.Morgan, Westbury, L. I.; Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, L. I.; Clarence 
H. Mackey, Roslyn, L. I.; William G. Oakman, Roslyn, L. I.; A. A. Pope, Farmington, Conn.; R. H. McCar- 
ter Potter, Andover, N. J.; John S. Phipps, Westbury, L. I.; Robert A. Pinkerton (The late), Bay Shore, L. I.; 
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepherd, Scarboro, N. Y.; H. McKay 
— ~™ " Twombly, Madison, N. J.; R. B. Van Cortlandt, Mt. 
Kisco, N. Y.; William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Great Neck, 
L. I.; William C.Whitney (The late), Westbury, L. I.; 
Robert Graves ; Mrs. Frank Gray Griswold, Roslyn, 
l L. I.; Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va.; Henry 
• Barton Jacobs, Newport, R.I. 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 
Olmstead Brothers, Brookline, Mass.; Guy Lowell, 
Boston and New York; Warren H. Manning, Boston, 
Mass.; Rollin S. Saltus, 9 East 41st St., N. Y.; Nathan 
I F. Barrett, New Rochelle. 
Old Arboreitcs Hedge moved from our Nursery for Mr. J. S. Phipps, Westbury, L. I., in January, 1907. The kitchen 
wing is screened, and therefore leaves the symmetry of the house undisturbed 
