TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



EVERGREENS 



The grouping of Evergreens is an easy matter. When 

 they arrive, set them on the ground, move them about, 

 like chessmen, until the grouping is satisfactory. The time 

 of the year for planting Evergreens is of minor importance. 

 The important thing is that they have sufficient roots. 



The spring- planting season commences from March I 

 to 15, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and continues 

 until the middle of May. In fact, there is no definite end 

 to the season because, with a ball of earth of good size, 

 trees can be moved while the young growth is starting. This 

 young growth is not liable to wilt on Arborvitses, Retinos- 

 poras and Red Cedar, and they can be moved right on 

 through June and July. With Pines, Spruces and Firs, the 

 young growth is liable to wilt down and, while not killing 

 the tree, may cause it to retain its curved position, and 

 we do not move many of them until the August-September 

 season, when the new growth has ripened up. 



The August-September season for transplanting Ever- 

 greens is just as successful as any other. The season's 

 growth is completed for the tops, but the roots continue 

 growing until the ground freezes. In fact, the roots 

 grow more than in March because the ground is warmer. 

 Send for our book, "Hicks' Evergreens for August and 

 September planting," showing how all sizes and kinds of 

 Evergreens are successfully transplanted in a season when 

 there is no other garden work to interfere, relieving the 

 congestion of the spring season and permitting the plant- 

 ing to be done when you are on the place to superintend it. 



Winter transplanting of Evergreens of from 6 to 40 

 feet high is entirely practical. On Long Island, the ground does not freeze deeply enough to interfere with digging 

 until after midwinter, and not often then. Foresight in mulching will permit work to be done all winter with no in- 

 terference from frost. Send for "Planting Large Evergreens in Winter," a book of sixteen pages, describing how we 

 can economically move Evergreens to your grounds all winter. We can thin out Evergreens on your place or move 

 in Evergreens from the vicinity, from the wild growth or from a neighboring estate, by cooperating with your men 

 and teams, we supplying the apparatus and a few expert men. One important feature of transplanting Evergreens in 

 winter is that more time and care can naturally be devoted to the work than is possible during the rush of spring 

 planting, when there is always more to do than can be crowded into the few short weeks of good spring weather. 



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Abies homolepsis; syn., brachyphylla, one of the valuable 

 species of Asia. View in the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica 

 Plains, Mass. This institution is introducing a large number 

 of very valuable ornamental trees from Asia. 



On page 11 there is a group of large trees, which is continued by this group of Cedars, Pines and Arborvitaes. The object 

 was to build up on the hill behind the house an evergreen background and give a hospitable appearance. Incidentally, the 

 evergreens screen the water-tank. The trees were growing along the hedgerows where they were a distinct detriment to the 

 landscape, cutting up the broad expanse of meadow. 



A large part of our work, both in August, September and in winter, is making large evergreen groups like this. 



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