HICKS NURSERIES, WESTBURY, L. I. 



DECIDUOUS TREES 



ACER Maple 



HE members of the Maple family have been favorites with planters ever since the country was first 

 settled. The Sugar Maples supplied the early settlers with sugar, firewood and wood for cabinet-making. 

 They found it transplanted readily from the forests, and so, throughout the northern states, the Sugar 

 Maple and the Elm are the principal landscape features about farms and villages. 



The Silver Maple is native to the same area, and grew much more rapidly; consequently it won 



I even greater favor with nurserymen. 



The Norway Maple could readily be imported. 



It made a broader tree, giving better shade than. 



the Sugar Maple and probably has been more widely and acceptably planted than any other tree in our region. 



Norway. A. platanoides. We have 500 Norway 

 Maples 20 to 30 feet high, 5 to 9 inches in diameter, 

 spreading 12 to 22 feet. This is one fact we want you 

 to remember. The demand for shade and masses of green 

 foliage is universal. The demand to save time is equally 

 so. This stock supplies it. It is a result of 20 years' fore- 

 sight, enthusiasm, willingness to risk capital and land in 

 growing stock for which there had not been previously a 

 willingness to pay a profitable price, and also willingness to 

 defer profits for a longer period than in almost any other 

 line of business. We have kept rather quiet about it, but 

 now the stock is ready, our land full and the trees are 

 offered to you at a fair price and in excellent quality. 

 The pictures show that we spare neither skill, time nor 

 expense in digging these trees and 

 planting them for you in a way to 

 make every one live and grow 

 vigorously. The long waiting has 

 been ours; you take no risk. We have 

 grown them in a wholesale way, 

 probably cheaper than you could 

 grow them on your lawn if you 

 figured land, interest and care. 



Maples 4^ inches in diameter, second year after planting 

 from our nurseries. The foliage shows but little check from 

 moving because the surface of the ground is mulched with 

 manure and the trees are well watered, pipes having been 

 laid to all parts of the ground. 



This statement refers to trees near the house and 

 on the entrance drive and immediate lawn. It does not 

 refer to a distant hillside where immediate effect is not 

 essential, and where you can plant a five-cent tree and grow 

 it more cheaply than any nurseryman. No other stock in 

 this country or in Europe can compare with ours, and yet 

 our prices are not high. In good Norway Maples, 2 inches 

 in diameter, the stock on the market is low, and if you 

 are making a real estate subdivision and want a thousand, 

 we cannot supply them. We do believe, however, that a 

 few of these large trees twenty years old, placed on some 

 of the lots, will make a sale at a big profit above the cost 

 of the tree. We know this from the many complaints 

 from those who have bought bare lots, and letters stating 

 that people will buy if assured that big trees can be suc- 

 cessfully planted. Do not let distance prevent you from 

 having these big trees. They are easily packed, one to 

 three trees in a bale of straw with damp moss on the roots. 

 They can stand a railroad journey of two weeks without 

 injury. This is one reason we went into raising Norway 

 Maples of large size. They are good trees that transplant 

 readily, whereas large Carolina Poplars transplant more 

 readily and are cheaper, but they are not good trees. 

 Architects should consider these for formal planting on 

 avenues to arch over a path. They have been trimmed 

 to uniform, symmetrical size and will produce a result 

 which, in Europe, would take fifteen years. The Euro- 

 peans are willing to wait; we are not. 



Schwedler's Purple Norway. A. platanoides, var. 

 Schwedleri. This is most closely like the Purple Beech, 

 but it grows more rapidly. The color is a dark red in 

 May and June, changing to a dark green in late summer, 



Reitenbach's Purple Norway. A. platanoides, var. 

 Reitenbachi. This variety resembles Schwedler's, but it is 

 purple during August and September. 



Sugar, Rock, or Hard. A . saccharum ; syn. , A . sacchari' 

 num. This is a taller-growing tree than the Norway, 

 with a narrower head. It is particularly good on the north 

 slope of Long Island and on the mainland. The Norway 

 Maple, however, keeps better foliage and produces more 

 shade on the south slope of Long Island. We have a num- 

 ber of trees 20 to 25 feet high that have been grown 

 wide apart and will quickly make handsome trees, 

 although they are not at present as broad and solid as 

 Norway Maples. 



Sycamore. A. Pseudo-platanus. The Sycamore Maple 

 resembles in shape the Norway Maple, but the foliage 

 is darker green and the shade more dense. We can show 

 you old specimens in Westbury which are 40 feet broad 

 and in perfect health. It is a favorite tree at South- 

 ampton, and other places along the shore, for its thick, 

 leathery leaves resist salt air. There was a fine specimen 

 of it standing alone on Jekyl Island, or Barnum Island, 

 just back of Long Beach, where it had all the unfavorable 

 conditions of salt air. 



THE PICTURES ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE 



Top. — ^Residence of Mr. Robert R. Sizer, Plandome, Long Island. On the left, a Norway Maple, and on the right, a Linden, 

 both planted from our nurseries when about six inches in diameter. 



Middle. — Norway Maples planted from our nurseries when about five inches in diameter. Drive on the grounds of the 

 late "William C. Whitney. These were planted to bring down the foliage, the existing trees being Oak and Chestnut with bare 

 trunks up to fifty feet. 



Bottom. — Norway Maples moved by our tree-movers about eight years before the photograph was taken. 



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