Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y — Evergreens 
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Evergreens 
The question arises: What will evergreens do to enhance the beauty and value of my property? Every 
owner has ideals for the future development of his land. Do these ideals include a grove of Pine, a wind- 
break of Spruce trees, a Pine-forested hill or a valley with Hemlock-covered slopes? Have journeys to the 
northern mountains given memories of Balsam, Pine and Spruce that you would like to see reproduced 
near home? This can, in large measure, be 
accomplished. The evergreens of northern 
latitudes, as the Hemlock and White Pine, 
are native on Long Island; but the axe of the 
early settlers and the fires have nearly ex- 
terminated them, and it is necessary to plant 
to give our winter landscapes the beauty, 
interest and cheerfulness that the climate 
permits. 
The utilitarian value of evergreens is 
but little understood. They have been re- 
garded as the extravagant and isolated orna- 
ments on the, lawn. That is partly the fault 
of the nurserymen for not growing them in 
large quantities and offering them at low 
prices. 
To aid in deciding what to order, we 
state the merits and limitations of each 
species. We offer evergreens in nearly every 
size, price and variety that can be used in 
this region. It remains for you to decide to 
what extent evergreens will help your prop- 
erty, and what size will suit your purposes. 
For immediate results, we have the 
largest-sized evergreens on the market, and, 
what is equally important, have invented 
and constructed several types of tree-moving 
machinery for successfully moving large 
evergreens. 
On the other hand, if small evergreens 
will best suit your purposes, we believe that 
we have the largest quantity that has ever 
been grown in the northeastern United 
States. It has heretofore been the custom 
to import small evergreens from Europe, but a 
long test has proven that most of the kinds 
native to Europe are not permanently hardy or handsome here. 
If medium-sized trees, from 2 to 5 feet high, will best suit your requirements, we feel certain 
that no better trees can be grown than those here offered. Our stock has been trained to have abundant 
fibrous roots, and will be dug in a way to insure excellent results. 
How many to order depends on the area to be covered and the distance apart. Evergreens love com- 
pany. The mutual protection of a grove where one tree shelters another from the drying winds, adds to 
their beauty and usefulness. The individual tree will be much more dense in foliage when it is surrounded 
by a grove of other trees. "Plant thick, thin quick," is the summary of a discussion on this subject by a 
convention of landscape architects and park superintendents. Both parts of this rule are more important 
with evergreens than with deciduous trees. We have made it possible to plant thickly by offering evergreens 
in large quantities and at low prices, and our tree-moving inventions make it easy and safe to thin safely 
at the proper time, and utilize these trees for other planting or for sale. Before our method of tree-moving, 
it was customary to cut down and throw away such trees, because evergreens over 9 feet high were often 
thought too big to move successfully. 
The distance apart will, therefore, depend upon how quickly you wish results and upon how windy 
the situation is. 
For a screen belt, evergreens may be planted 5 to 12 feet apart, The group should be 15 feet wide, 
Vista of tall Red Cedars moved by us on Hicks Tree- Movers in the 
Italian Garden of Mr. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, L. I. This vista 
leads to the Villa d'Este circle described on page 9. The ground 
is carpeted with moss pink. 
