MEEHANS’ NURSERIES 
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Street, Avenue and Park Planting use the 
PIN OAK 
It is one of the most desirable trees for all purposes, and will 
thrive in situations where many other trees will not exist. It is 
adapted either to high, rolling ground, where the soil is poor ; or the 
soft, moist soil of meadows and low lands. 
It is particularly adapted for street planting, and will flourish on 
the sidewalks in cities where both the pavement and street is of 
asphalt. Few trees will grow in such a spot. On North Fifteenth 
Street, in Philadelphia, stands two fine specimens of Pin Oaks planted 
on the sidewalk and they are flourishing under the most unfavorable 
conditions. 
The Tree Planting and Fountain Society of Brooklyn, New York, 
have found it one of the most satisfactory trees for street planting and 
are using it largely. 
For planting on Avenues, Park roads and Boulevards it surpasses 
all other trees. It is most graceful in character and of fairly rapid 
growth. The illustration shows an avenue of Pin Oaks in Fairmount 
Park, Philadelphia, planted in 1878, two years after the Centennial. 
The trees average now about forty feet in height and the avenue is 
considered one of the finest in the Park. 
Oaks are also used very largely for avenue planting in the Parks 
of Boston, Pittsburg, Baltimore and other cities. 
The Pin Oak is not a slow grower as is generally supposed. It 
never makes less than two feet of growth each year when standing in 
nursery rows, and frequently makes as much as three and four feet. 
They are free from insects and the leaves remain on the tree and 
retain their bright color until late in the fall when they turn more 
to beautiful fall coloring. As specimen lawn trees they have no 
or less 
equal. 
PRICES 
PE R 1 0 
PER 100 
$ 2.00 
PER 1000 
$ 12.00 
3*00 
15.00 
4,00 
25.00 
4.00 
35-00 
250.00 
5.00 
40.00 
350-00 
50.00 
400.00 
.. 7*50 
60.00 
500.00 
8.50 
75.00 
650.00 
.. 10.00 
90.00 
800.00 
100.00 
JO to II feet, “ low branched. 
175.00 
