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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y.— Deciduous Trees 
Magnolias 
The Magnolias like Long Island and maintain good health here. Therefore Long Islanders should 
plant them extensively, not as single specimens, but in groups and belts as other trees and shrubs are 
planted. The reason they like Long Island was discovered by Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist. Magnolias 
are native of only eastern North America and eastern Asia. They once inhabited Greenland, Iceland, etc., 
and were driven south during the glacial epoch in these two regions because of their similarity of climate. 
Magnolias have been rare, high-priced and difficult to get from nurseries in quantity, and reputed difficult 
to transplant. We Jiave changed all this. We determined to have a plenty, and collected large quantities 
of seed from the magnificently complete collection of the late Charles A. Dana, and elsewhere. Our stock 
is frequently transplanted and root-pruned. Therefore they have a close mass of fibrous roots and can be 
economically moved with balls of earth. They are sure to live, grow vigorously, keep in good foliage and 
furnish a wealth of beautiful flowers and showy red seed vessels every year. 
The landscape grouping of Magnolias is not difficult. They are rounded in form, full at the base, and 
as harmonious in foliage with ordinary planting as Dogwood, Virburnum, Golden Bell, Privet, Beech, 
Linden, Sugar Maple, Pin Oak and Tulip Tree. The exceptions are the large-leaved species, — Macrophylla, 
Tripetala, Hypoleuca and Frazeri, which have tropical foliage and can be planted in parts of the lawn 
dedicated to unusual plants, or used to decorate, by contrast, the borders of the woodland and swamp. 
Who will be the first to have a Magnolia and Azalea garden, or to transform a pond or stream into 
a Water Lily garden surrounded by a bower of beauty, by planting Magnolias around it.? 
July- and August-flowering— 
Parviflora, Purple, Lenne. 
Trees- 
Cucumber, Kobus, Umbrella, Large-leaved, Hy- 
poleuca. 
Shrubs — 
Hall's, Sweet Bay, Yulan, Soulangeana, Alba 
superba, Alexandria, Speciosa, Lenne, Parviflora, 
Watsoni. 
Big Tropical Foliage- 
Large-leaved, Umbrella, Hypoleuca, Fraser's. 
Abundant Ornamental Fruit- 
Sweet Bay, Umbrella, Cucumber, Kobus, Frazeri. 
Feeble Growers — 
Parviflora, Watsoni. 
Tender- 
Grandiflora (Southern Evergreen Magnolia), 
Purple (slightly tender) , Lenne (slightly tender) . 
Semi - Evergreen — 
Sweet Bay. 
AMERICAN SPECIES 
Sweet Bay. Magnolia glauca. Laurel Magnolia. 
This, especially, should be planted in large groups; 
it grows better and looks better so. In winter 
it keeps part of its foliage and it is the brightest 
green of the broad-leaved evergreens. It will 
make a healthy bush or small tree 8 to 15 feet high. 
The flowers and foliage most closely resemble 
the famous Southern Magnolia, because it is 
most closely related to it. The graceful, globular, 
cup-shaped flowers are delightfully fragrant. 
Color cream-white. They are sold in June and 
July in large quantities by the flower venders 
of New York, who bend back the petals to make 
the flowers look larger. 
It is native to Long Island between Speonk 
and Westhampton. Professor Hollick, of the 
New York Botanical Garden,, uses this and 
several other species to demonstrate that Long 
Island, New Jersey, Block Island, Nantucket 
and the Cape Cod region, were once connected. 
As plants of the southern sandy coastal plain 
flora moved north on the retreat of the ice sheet, 
they came up this costal plain. They could not 
travel through the flora of the rocky upland of 
northern New Jersey and Connecticut, therefore, 
Early Spring-flowering, March to May. Native to Asia- 
Hall's, Kobus, Yulan, Purple. 
Hybrids of the last two — Soulangeana, Alba 
superba, Alexandria, Speciosa, Lenne. 
June - Flo werin g — 
Umbrella, Large-leaved, Hypoleuca, Fraser's 
Parviflora, Watsoni, Cucumber, Sweet Bay. 
Sweet Bay Magnolia, a beautiful flower that you can 
have in quantity at no greater cost than ordinary shrubs. They 
appear for a long time in early summer. 
