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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y. — Deciduous Trees 
Oak, continued 
forest crops. Invention cannot remove the necessity of forestry. Remove the mystery, lessen the fire risk, 
and capital and state will take hold of forestry. Stockholders in railroads, manufacturers and consumers 
will all be educated by your forest. An Oak, Hickory and Pine forest will give the highest beauty, because 
they will be among the happiest, most luxuri- 
ant and healthiest trees. Despise not the little 
tree. It enables you to do big things at low 
first cost and interest. In eight years a grove 
of i -foot trees and one of 6-foot trees will look 
alike. If you want a few trees 15 to 20 feet, 
that is another proposition. Plant big ones 
with good roots. 
For seaside planting, some of the Oaks are 
the best of all. Their thick, leathery foliage 
stands the caustic salt spray and the grinding 
action of the sand blast. Their tough arms 
battle with the gale. Their long-reaching roots 
gather sustenance from the sand. If a great 
storm damages the foliage, they have the 
vigor to make a new, dense growth. The 
Black, Scarlet, Post, Scrub.and Chestnut Oaks 
should be included in seaside planting. 
The windbreak value of Oaks is threefold. 
First, the leaves remain all the year on 
certain species, especially in the drier soils. 
Second, even with the species which drop their 
leaves, their thick, twiggy growth helps. 
Third, they help the Pines and Spruces, with- 
out being so thirsty as to rob them. Nature 
favors that partnership. On the prairie, this 
combination has made the best shelter belts. 
If you want trees that will give the least 
trouble with insects, fungus, drought, winter- 
killing, plant the kind of Oaks that fit your 
conditions, and cut back three-quarters of 
the top. That is the secret of successful 
transplanting of hardwood trees. 
Large 'Pin Oaks in Westbury Nursery, ready for mature results. 
Trees over 1 2 in. diameter, 30 ft. high and 20 ft. spread 
Pin. Quercus palustris. The Pin Oak has led the 
way in popularizing the Oaks, because it is easy 
to transplant. It is of symmetrical, ovate form, 
with lower branches gracefully spreading down- 
ward. It has a bright autumn color. It grows 
rapidly, sometimes 4 feet per year, and thrives 
on all Long Island soils. The illustrations show 
Pin Oaks 2 feet in diameter, growing vigorously 
ten years after we have moved them, showing 
that the idea that large trees fail is not based on 
our methods. Large Pin Oaks recover quickly 
from transplanting, and will often give a good 
shade the second year. In our Nursery are large 
quantities of broad Pin Oaks, 20 to 30 and 30 to 
40 feet high, ready to shade your house, screen 
unsightly buildings, complete your home picture. 
Red. Q. rubra. The big, gravity-defying, broad- 
spreading branches, sinewy as a pugilist's arm, 
show even on the young trees. Of course, the 
White Oak is the ideal and equals the European 
Oak of literature, art, and history, but the Red 
Oak will attain the same qualities earlier. It is 
well dressed with large, clean foliage that turns 
deep red in autumn and then falls off. Its growth 
is as rapid as the Norway, or Sugar Maple. A 
tree that will always do its work quickly and 
require no coddling, frequently making 3 feet of 
growth per year. We offer a good stock of trees 
recently transplanted. 
Scarlet. Q. coccinea. Probably the commonest 
Oak tree on Long Island. Its foliage resembles 
the Pin Oak, but its lower branches are larger, 
stronger and spread upward. Its leaves turn to 
brilliant scarlet late in autumn, and in some soils 
they remain red all winter. 
For windbreak and all-the-year screen, this 
leaf-retaining feature is of great value. If you 
do not trim them, the branches wiil remain thick 
and broad to the ground. In drought it thrives 
and keeps on growing when other trees stop. 
Order 500 Scarlet Oaks and 500 Pines, plant 
5 to 10 feet apart, and they will do more than 
five times the investment in shrubs. 
Black. Q. velutina. The Black Oak is the closest 
relative and companion of the Scarlet Oak, and, 
by some botanists, considered a variety of the 
same species. The useful qualities of the Scarlet 
Oak apply to the Black Oak, with the addition 
that its thicker, more leathery leaves fit it to 
stand salt spray. The general appearance of the 
tree is big and sturdy, and next the surf it makes 
a low tree, pugnacious and broad-shouldered, 
with branches to the ground. Miles of sand dunes 
can be held by it if only they are started. 
Post. Q. stellata. The polished black-green leathery 
leaves announce this a drought-resister. It is 
native on the bare, sandy hillsides or on the 
gravelly seashore. It makes a broad tree. 
