The Garden Magazine, September, 1923 
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What Can Hicks Nurseries 
Do For Me In September? 
T HE members of Hicks staff are ready to dig, deliver and 
plant for you in September. We guarantee satisfactory 
growth or a new plant at the nursery. We prefer you to select 
your own stuff at the Nursery and take it away with you. We 
are willing to do nearly everything without waiting for the sup¬ 
posed best time to plant. Your garden or landscape plans can 
be modified to 80 or go per cent, during the summer months. 
Hicks Nursery service is Different because we are not bound 
by the traditions of long distance shipment based on the system 
of growing fruit trees, digging with 8 horses, and sorting out in 
the storage cellar where all the stock is assembled. 
Another reason. Hicks Nurseries has a w'ell trained staff for 
large tree moving and this is their particular business. I hey 
are not busy hoeing weeds in the summer and storing stock in 
the cellar in winter. Hicks Nurseries do not take on “common 
tramp labor” for the "spring season.” Many members own their 
own homes and will give you pointers on how to beautify your 
place or what to grow to eat. Just ease around Westbury, New 
Cassel, Carle Place, and we believe that you will agree with us 
that you will see the most attractively planted cottages you have 
ever seen. These places planted by flicks Nurseries staff do not 
look as though they have been forced plantings, but just as if 
they had grown up by love and knowledge to furnish happiness 
to the owners. You do not have to go to the English garden 
cities, or to France, or to Japan, or to Dayton, to learn about 
planting. 
Hicks Specialties Evergreens 
Long Island is becoming an all year round residence region, and 
people enjoy the Evergreens in winter. You can plant Evergreens 
at any time. You can take 50 carloads of Evergreens 10 to 30 
years old, 6 to 30 feet high, out of Hicks Nurseries. They will 
fit as far as St. Louis, Missouri. Bar Harbor, Maine, or Richmond, 
Virginia. These wonderful Evergreens will enable you to make 
the kind of gardens that you wish your father had planted. Our 
records show that we have sent out hundreds of carloads of these 
big Evergreens with over 95 per cent, success. Joseph Wickey, 
a member of Hicks Nursery staff and the champion tree mover 
of the world, has them in such condition that they look like 
candidates for the fat stock show. The roots are right. 
Shade Trees 
Hicks Nurseries have them for you. grown in a way that will 
save you five, ten or fifteen years of waiting without serious set¬ 
back from transplanting. These trees are ready to put out in 
full leaf, or in October and November after the leaves have 
ripened Don’t wait until next spring, because you can get bettei 
service in the fall than you can the "last week in April.” 
Perennials 
Not everything, not every variety, but a wonderful collection 
and good enough to give any garden pleasure. Take them with 
you. 
Berry Bearing Shrubs 
You love the birds and they will work for you provided you 
give them some berries to feed on in the hunger time from 
January to March. John Burroughs said that the insect feeding 
birds would starve if they did not get berries to eat in the 
winter. We have lists of berry bearing shrubs to fit your soil 
and climate and you should plant some of them. Write us for 
this list. 
No matter how much or how little you want for your place 
you get good value at Hicks Nurseries. The fact that we have 
good $50 trees does not mean we have not also good $2.00 trees. 
There is a booklet of 12 pages with sketches by Marjorie Sewel, 
Landscape Architect, Paterson, N. J. The text may give you a 
jar, a smile, and help. Send for “It Is Never Too Late to Plant.” 
Perhaps we can help you this month. 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Westbury 
Long Island 
Jmips 
To enjoy them together in your own garden next season 
Plant Schling’s Bulbs This Fall J 
D ARWINS and Cottage, single and double, early and late,— 
their lovely cups brimming with color and nodding a merry 
“good morning” to you every day for weeks—from early April to 
June in fact—How can you afford to miss them! 
You can’t have too many oj them! Order now and generously, 
plant them this fall and we promise you a winter of pleasant antici¬ 
pation, a springtime full of delightful surprises and years of happy 
memories:— 
To bring the joys of Tulip time to as many as possible we make 
the following very special offers, all bulbs guaranteed top size and 
very first quality. 
Schling’s Special Border Collection 
Of gorgeous Darwin and Cottage Tulips 
(as pictured above in order from right to left) 
Per 100 Per 1,000 
Clara Butt —Exquisite Salmon pink Darwin. $4.50 $40.00 
Picotee —White cottage petals edged with pink . 4.50 40.00 
Pride of Haarlem —Darwin American Beauty color_ 5.00 45.00 
Dream —Charming lavender Darwin . 5.50 50.00 
Bronze Queen —Buff tinged with golden bronze. 5.00 45.00 
Zulu— Enormous size Darwin of deep velvety purple.... 5.50 50.00 
Golden Beauty —Glorious golden yellow cottage. 5.00 45.00 
25 Bulbs at 100 rate; 250 Bulbs at 1,000 rate 
Very Special 
100 Bulbs each of 7 varieties above (700 in all). $32.00 
1,000 bulbs each of 7 varieties above (7,000 in all). 290.00 
5% Discount—if cash accompanies order 
Ten Splendid “Get-Acquainted” Offers 
Each a wonderful value —at present prices 
100 Single Early Tulips in 10 named varieties. $4.00 
ICO Double Early Tulips in 10 named varieties . 4.50 
100 Darwin Tulips in 10 named varieties. 4.50 
100 Cottage Tulips in 10 named varieties. 4.50 
10C Breeder or Art Tulips in 5 rare named varieties. Wonderful 
shades of Bronze, Buff, Orange and Apricot. 5.00 
100 Parrot or Orchid Tulips in 4 named varieties. 5.00 
100 Narcissi or Daffodils for naturalizing and lawn planting. Airy 
Trumpets, Medium Trumpets shortcupped and the _ lovely 
Poet’s varieties. 4.50 
100 Bedding Hyacinths in 4 colors. 6.00 
ICO Named Hyacinths, 2nd size, 4 varieties. 8-00 
100 Named Hyacinths exhibition or top size in 10 named varieties 
for pots and glasses. 16.00 
5% Discount—if cash accompanies order 
$cklii\£s £ulW I 
23 West 59th Street, New York 
Gentlemen: 
Please enter my order for the bulbs checked above. [ ] I enclose remittance 
minus 5% cash discount, (or) [ ] Please send them C. O. D. (check which.) 
Name . 
Extraordinary Offer 
100 Darwin Tulips Only $3.50 
Choicest, first-size bulbs, sure to bloom. Schling’s 
Special Mixture made up especially for us from ten of 
the finest named varieties —not at all the ordinary 
field-grown mixture usually sold. 
A $5.00 value for only $3.50, or, if you prefer, 
50 Bulbs for $2.00 
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