HICKS NURSERIES, WESTBURY, L. I. 



BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS 



Flowers of Mountain Laurel 



HOLLY • Ilex 



American. /. opaca. It is not generally known that 

 the American Holly is native on Long Island, or that it is 

 easy to transplant from the wild with short, bare roots, 

 provided nearly all the tops are cut off, the leaves removed 

 and the trunk wrapped with straw. Although the Holly 

 prefers the thick woods and the vicinity of the sea, it 

 will grow in any position. It is scarce in nurseries, and 

 that is the only reason that it does not cheer up the fre- 



HOLLY, continued 



quently dreary winter landscape about American 

 residences. 



To get berries, it is best to plant several plants so as 

 to have both the berry-bearing and the non-berry- 

 bearing in a group. Holly should be planted both as 

 trees and shrubs, even if you have to take little 

 collected stubs bare of leaves. They will come along 

 bravely and you will soon be surprised to see them 

 growing 2 feet a year. 



Japanese. /. cre?iata. A Boxwood-like plant, with 

 glossy, dark green, little leaves useful for combining 

 with mass-plantings of dwarf evergreens against the 

 foundation of a house. They will try to grow i )4 feet a 

 year, but the tips of the branches do not have time to 

 ripen, and are killed back in the winter, but not 

 enough to prevent it from becoming a handsome bush 

 2 to 4 feet high. 



INKBERRY • Ilex glabra 



An evergreen bush, 3 feet high, with leaves larger 

 than Boxwood. It is native on the south side of Long 

 Island on the edges of the swamps. It should be used 

 as a ground-cover and in groups of low evergreens the 

 same as Mountain Laurel. It has black berries. 



MOUNTAIN LAUREL 



Kalmia latifolia 



Large areas of Oak forests on Long Island are covered 

 with this beautiful shrub. It is perfectly hardy, making 

 a compact shrub, 3 to 8 feet high. It comes in bloom with 

 the later Rhododendrons, in the middle of June. It will 

 thrive either in shade or in the sun, and is thankful for 

 the addition of a little leaf-mold. Many get discouraged 

 in collecting wild plants because they select plants with 

 large tops that do not have roots enough. They get them 

 from gravelly soils where the roots are long and coarse. 

 It is best to dig small plants i or 2 feet high that have been 

 burned or cut off recently. If the tops are cut back they 



American Holly, with Rhododendron and Taxus repandens. Under the Holly the ground is carpeted with Euonymus radicans 



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