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THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 
For Year-round Beauty 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Box M 
WESTBURY, L. I., NEW YORK 
“Old Friends and New ” 
is our latest catalogue, showing paintings 
of some of the best gardens on Long Island 
by Olmsted Brothers, Brookline, Mass., 
and Miss Ellen Shipman, New York, 
Landscape Architects. There are many 
new and rare plants offered, including a 
new list of cover plants. You will enjoy 
reading it — send for a copy. 
A WINDBREAK of Evergreens is pic- 
tured in the lower picture, and shows 
how these useful trees give privacy 
to the home grounds. Can you not use 
such a wall of green to make your place 
more quiet, or to give a background to your 
summer flower-garden or decorate your city 
garden? 
Evergreens can be safely planted all winter. 
The ground does not often freeze deeply here 
in winter; and it can be mulched to keep 
out freezing. By the ball of earth method 
you can use all the year to improve your 
place, and even in winter plant Hicks’ 
Time-saving Trees — like the pine, fir, spruce, 
beech, oak, tulip tree, sweet gum — beautiful 
species ordinarily difficult to move. 
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'C'ROM HICKS NURSERIES you can 
get low Evergreens, like the Japanese 
Yew, as at the foundation above; tall 
trees, 20 years old, for cool shade; climb- 
ing Roses for bank and pergola, and hardy 
flowers for the border. 
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Our catalogues will tell you how to fit trees to 
dry acid soils, to windy hill-tops, and to the 
seashore. Write us your ambitions for your 
country place. Visit the nursery this winter. 
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