TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



DECIDUOUS TREES 



LIQUIDAMBAR, continued 



we think there need be Uttle trouble with them. We are 

 determined to make them more popular for street plant- 

 ing. Some may imagine that the Liquidambar demands 

 damp soil because it is native to such places. It will 

 tolerate damp soil, but if planted elsewhere thrives ex- 

 cellently, as may be seen at Garden City north of St. 

 Mary's School, where old trees are as large as the best 

 Maples and much handsomer. Our stock is from seed 

 collected on Long Island, which is about the northern 

 limit of its range. We had 500 from a nursery a few hun- 

 dred miles to the south, but had to throw them out be- 

 cause they killed to the ground for two winters. 



LOCUST 



Yellow. Rohinia Pseudacacia. It is the most com- 

 monly planted forest tree on Long Island. In fact. Long 

 Island probably had the first planted forests on the west- 

 ern hemisphere. In colonial days, no farm was consid- 

 ered complete without its grove of Locusts. It was intro- 

 duced on Long Island by Capt. Sands of Sands Point, 

 Port Washington, who brought it from Virginia, where 

 it is native. 



We can supply trees on our tree-movers up to 70 feet in 

 height. They make one of the best and cheapest trees 

 for planting in groups. 



Honey. Gleditschia triacanthos. This is an excellent 

 seaside tree, as the small, tough leaves are uninjured by 

 wind or salt. On the Rockaway peninsula, even on poor 

 soils, it makes one of the largest trees, arching high above 

 the houses like an elm. This species may be identified by 

 its black bark and clusters of spines one foot long on most 

 old trees. Will make an impenetrable hedge and is often 

 used for that purpose on farms. 



View on the terrace at the residence of Mr. W. D. Guthrie, 

 Locust Valley, Long Island, showing one of our large Norway 

 Maples a few years after planting from the nurseries. Our 

 stock of trees, 25 feet high, save ten to fifteen years. 



MAACKIA 



Amurense. This is closely related to the Yellow-Wood. 

 It makes a neat little tree, with graceful pinnate foliage 

 and clusters of yellow flowers in August. 



Group of Locust and Wild Cherry planted by our tree-movers from the adjacent hedge-rows. One side of the entrance 

 court was against the woodland, and this group was planted to balance the composition. View of the grounds of Mr. Middleton 

 S. Burrill, Jericho, Long Island. In transplanting large trees, it does not necessarily mean planting broad, single specimens. 

 A greater mass of foliage can be secured for less expense by taking several slender, tall trees, as the Locusts, and feathering 

 down with Wild Cherry. Utilizing the local material is often the greatest economy and the most harmonious. 



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