THIRTEEN 



N looking about for 

 large trees that 

 would not require 

 twenty -five years 

 waiting on our 

 part, we found the Pin Oak, 

 one of the best available. On 

 Long Island these grow around 

 the kettle hole ponds. These 

 farms were cleared perhaps in 

 colonial days, and ditches dug 

 to drain the low spots. Later a 

 part of the land had been aban- 

 doned, and the Pin Oaks have 

 sprung up and made broad, 

 symmetrical trees. On the hills 

 the Cedars have come in. These 

 two make the most available 

 landscape material for our tree- 

 moving department. 



The Pin Oaks thrive 

 equally well on high or low land. 

 They will endure the swampy 

 ground, but they do not require 

 wet ground for their best de- 

 velopment, as the finest and 

 broadest specimens we have seen 

 are on hillsides. 



Are there not Pin Oaks in 

 your vicinity which you want us 

 to move for you ? On the main- 

 land, you will find them gener- 

 ally in river bottoms, where they 



are much easier to dig than upon ^''^'^ P'" 



the rocky ledges. A fact of which you are probably not aware is, that a Pin Oak so crowded 

 that when planted it is but a bare pole 30 feet high and 8 inches in diameter will in five years 

 make a broad, symmetrical, low-branched specimen. That is the way we have grown some of ours. 



Are there not also Elm, Norway, Red, Sugar or Silver Maple, Linden, Ash, Horsechestnut, 

 Locust, Catalpa, Birch, Dogwood, Poplar, Willow or Plane trees, and, among evergreens, White 

 Pines, Red Cedar, Hemlock, Arborvitae, Fir and Spruce, which you can have us move? 



Send us circumference of trunk at three feet, spread of branches, approximate height, soil, if 

 loam, clay, sandy, rocky, swamp or upland, distance to move, — ^and we can send you a preliminary 

 report on the practicability of moving them. 



The ideal trees are grown alone on loamy soil, symmetrical, and making a long annual growth. 



Pin Oaks 

 In Our 

 Nursery 



Oaks m our nursery 



tot your selection., 



