Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y.— Evergreens 
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Group of Scotch, Austrian, Red and Mugho Pines planted in 1893 from our plans made for Mr. J. F. D. Lanier, now 
the residence of Mr. Chas. R. Steele, Westbury. We have Pines like these for immediate shipment, and little Pines that will 
grow such forests for $ 1 0 per acre. 
White Pine • Pinus Strobus 
See back cover for large- moved Pine 
The White Pine is the biggest and noblest evergreen of its region. It is native from the southern 
Appalachian mountains to Long Island, Canada and westward to Minnesota.^ It is the most valuable 
timber tree of the region, and the rapid advance in price shows the folly in this country of not heeding 
the example of European countries and encouraging a second growth, either by natural seeding from a few 
mother trees left for the purDose, or by artificial planting. The preservation of forests on the water-sheds is 
important ; it lessens destruction from floods and 
loss from low water for navigation and power. 
In the state of Maine there are many 
people who say that they have cut hay or 
dug potatoes thirty or forty years ago, where 
now the portable saw-mills turn out a highly 
profitable crop of White Pine lumber. The 
land was abandoned, and was re-seeded by 
old trees standing a few hundred feet away. 
These areas would be very much more profit- 
able, if, like the forests of Germany and 
France, the trees had been planted or thinned 
out to uniform distances, thus making clear 
lumber. 
You have realized the need of forest 
preservation for the generation now living 
and for the future. Here is a chance to try it. 
Small trees have probably not been offered 
to you that are cheap and sure to grow. Now 
is the time to start. You and all who see and 
hear about the forest you planted will learn 
how easy it is to grow timber. Perhaps your 
land is too valuable for a crop of timber. It is 
an object lesson and a good investment, 
nevertheless. The trees will improve the 
selling value of your land. They will improve 
its value for residences. 
In our Nursery you will see beds of White 
Pine two years old. They look as even as 
green moss. The Professors of Forestry say 
that this is the economical size to plant. With 
compound interest for thirty or fifty years, it 
makes a great difference how cheaply the 
plantation is started. Planting a Pine forest 
is simple — open a cleft and plant. When 
that fact is generally known, there will be 
a great advance in forestry in this country. 
The unknown and imaginary difficulties of 
growing trees, and fire protection, are as 
great a handicap as the American get-rich- 
quick spirit, and the annual tax on growing 
timber. 
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Pine and Oak is the strongest, best, longest-lived, cheapest to start 
and maintain; beautiful combination for Long Island. Planted on 
the gravelly side - hill next the railroad, on the grounds of Mr. 
Clarence H. Mackey, Roslyn. Guy Lowell, Landscape Architect, 
