Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y. — Evergreens 
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White Pine, continued 
October to March and June to August has been 
entirely successful. When other people forget that 
tree-planting can be done and discontinue ordering, 
then is the time — mid-winter or midsummer — that 
we move large evergreens for ourselves, and lind 
it both economical and successful. 
Can you not profit by this example and order 
Pines, Cedars and other evergreens moved in the 
slack season? The trees are here; you have only to 
call and see them, or write. We own White Pines 
in different parts of the country and can look up 
others. We can send tree-mover and men to move 
them for you. Some landscape architects have not 
become accustomed to the successful planting of 
large trees, and the knowledge that an abundant 
supply is available. Therefore, their clients have to 
wait io to 20 years for results which we can furnish 
in one or two years. 
Pitch Pine • Pinus rigida 
Pitch Pine is the most abundant evergreen on 
Long Island. Not one person in a hundred knows 
its beauty and value for landscape planting. The 
reason for this is that over 90 per cent of the Pitch 
Pine forests have been repeatedly burned over, de- 
stroying the lower branches of the trees and, what 
is worse, destroying the best qualities of the soil. 
By the way, these forest fires in the Pine and 
scrub Oak forests are largely responsible for the 
poor reputation of a large part 
of Long Island. These forest fires 
can be largely prevented by apply- 
ing the State Fire Warden Law, as 
it is in the Adirondacks. 
The Pitch Pine has a dense, round head of sunny 
green color. It looks alive all winter. It is a pleasure 
to rest the eye on a grove of young trees with their 
embossed and rounded sky-line. They need no care, 
and thrive best on the poorest soil. For the first few 
years they make more bulk than any other evergreen, 
except the Scotch Pine. For the seaside they are the 
best long-lived Pine yet tested for Long Island. 
Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of Arnold 
Arboretum, Harvard, says of it "This tree is valu- 
able because ifc can be raised more quickly and 
cheaply in the northern states than any other coni- 
fer from seeds scattered broadcast on the ground or 
sowed in shallow drills; and no other conifer grows 
here so rapidly on dry, sterile gravels, which it soon 
covers with dense forests. It is often valuable, too, 
where the soil is poor, as an ornamental tree, and 
in old age it frequently becomes extremely pictur- 
esque with its dark red-brown roughened and 
deeply fissured bark, contorted branches and sparse 
dark yellow-green rigid leaves which stand out 
stiffly from the branchlets." 
Between Babylon and Bay Shore there are old 
trees of it with the White Pine. The sea influence 
has prevented the White Pine reaching its best 
development, but the Pitch Pines are venerable old 
trees, well worthy of their position in a lawn. 
The Pitch Pine should form the backbone of 
groups. It is especially adapted to what the 
geologists call the Rockaway gravel, a formation 
occuring only from Lynbrook to Far Rockaway. 
It can be kept low and bushy by 
an occasional trimming and look- 
ing much better than the balloon- 
shaped shrubs as usually pruned 
in that region. 
The reason our Pines make a good vigorous growth the first year, not short bunchy tips, is because we have them root- 
pruned to produce numerous fibrous roots, and no expense or skill is spared to^save them in digging. The roots are wrapped 
against the ball and burlapped. In the center an 8-foot Hemlock crated for shipment. 
