Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y.— Deciduous Trees 
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Chestnuts, continued 
Japanese. Castanea crenata. No more luxuriant 
tree has come to us from Japan. It has shining 
leaves, and is full and round, foliaged to the 
ground. The question is sometimes asked, "Can 
I plant Cherry, Peach and Pear trees in the lawn, 
and have them as ornamental shade trees?" 
Yes, but cultivation is better for them and their 
foliage is not certain to remain healthy. With 
nut trees it is advisable. Plant fifty Japanese 
Chestnuts instead of Deutzia, Spirea, Snowball, 
etc., in the shrub border, and they will make a 
denser screen of handsome foliage, always 
healthy. As a specimen lawn tree, it will 
make a sturdy little tree 20 feet high and 
equally wide. The nuts begin to ripen 
several weeks before the American. In 
Japan and Europe the Chestnut is a staple 
food. Plant Japanese Chestnuts and the 
Chinquapins in quantity to get nuts quickly 
as they bear in two or thre^ years. The nuts 
are an inch in diameter, or larger; are good 
raw and excellent cooked, but not equal to 
the American in flavor. 
We have grown a large quantity which we 
offer at low rates. Now that the American 
Chestnuts are dying, these should be ex- 
tensively planted. See under Nuts. 
Chinquapin. C. pumila. A hardy shrub, 
bearing a profusion of sweet little nuts in 
early September. 
Dogwood * Cornus 
White - flowering. Cornus Jlorida. The 
White Dogwood has the most showy flower 
of the native small trees. It thrives in 
the open lawn or in the shady forest where 
its large white flowers, arranged in horizon- 
tar groups, illuminate the dark nooks early 
in May. All summer its foliage is dense 
and healthy, and its red leaves and scarlet 
berries mark the first changes of autumn. 
Plant Dogwoods 8 to 12 feet apart among 
the taller shrubs. They make the best 
border to feather down the edge of newly 
cut forest. Give them more sunlight, and 
they will bloom profusely. In thinning 
thick woods for landscape forestry, leave 
groups of Dogwood, even if small and 
crooked. Plant the White Dogwood with 
the White Pine, White Oak, Tulip, White Birch, 
and you have a group that grows naturally 
together. ., 
Red-flowering. C. Jlorida, var. rubra. A beautiful 
little tree destined to have a wider popularity. 
It is a gem worthy to rank with the Magnolias. 
New and rare is, in this case, synonomous with 
good. Plant a few of these and the Japanese 
Dogwood, and use them to graft in April, or 
bud in August on the wild Dogwood in the woods. 
A long' step will then be taken in solving the 
problem of how to beautify the woods with 
harmonious planting. 
Japanese. C. Kousa. Ignorance of its beauty 
is the only excuse for not planting this little 
tree. It is the counterpart of the White Dogwood 
in foliage and, therefore, harmonizes with the 
same surroundings. The chaste beauty of the 
white star-shaped flowers thickly covering the 
dark foliage surpasses any flowering tree of its 
season, which is a month later than any other. 
"We have a large stock which is offered at low 
rates to introduce it. 
Elm • Ulmus 
American. Ulmus Americana. No tree of tem- 
perate climates exceeds the Elm in gracefulness 
and majesty. It likes a moist situation, but it 
will grow on any good soil. We have trees up to 
55 feet high, with spread of roots and tops of 30 
feet, ready for successful transplanting. 
Weeping. U. Americana, var. pendula. The 
rapidity of growth of this variety is surprising, 
often 7 feet per season. It is a healthy, tall tree, 
open in form, with wide arched streamers, which 
The Japanese Chestnut will quickly make a broad, rounded and 
permanently healthy mass of foliage of this form and size. It fruits 
early and abundantly. 
make a graceful outline against the sky both 
winter and summer. If the situation calls for 
a tree to vary the solidity of ordinary trees, 
plant the Weeping Elm. There is nothing ab- 
normal or depressing in its appearance. 
Ginkgo • Maidenhair Tree 
Ginkgo biloba ; syn., Saiisburia adiantifolia. 
This tree is destined to have many admirers 
when old specimens become known. In maturity 
it loses the ungainly awkwardness of growth and 
makes a handsome individual in pleasant con- 
trast to ordinary trees. Its nearly complete 
immunity from insect and fungus is unique. 
Storms do not break its branches, and it gives 
every promise of living 1,000 years here, as in the 
Japanese temple gardens. 
Hickory • Hickoria; syn., Carya 
Mockernut. Hickoria tomentosa. A big, square- 
shouldered, long-lived tree. On the drier parts 
of Long Island this and some of the Qaks. are the 
largest trees. 
