HOUSE AND GARDEN 
78 
Hicks Trees 
, Hicks’ own nursery grown trees. No better can 
be grown by anybody anywhere. They may cost 
a bit more than the usual kind and they are worth 
it. You get fine, shapely, root-pruned trees, full 
of vigor. Whether it‘s a six or thirty-six-foot 
tree the quality and vigor is there. We sell trees 
of all sizes, but many of our customers buy the 
larger ones because the years of waiting for them, 
to grow up is then cut out. 
Send for our 1912 catalog and order your trees 
and shrubs for April. Early orders "get the early 
shipments — that’s only reasonable. 
Saplings like these cost but little-^ 
and look just what they cost. How 
much more reasonable to buy one . large 
tree as shown above and get an im¬ 
mediate effect. Then your small trees 
can be planted elsewhere to advantage 
and mean something. 
The Catalog is full of illustrations and 
planting helps for trees, shrubs, and 
hardy flowers—it’s a book well worth 
sending for. 
Westbuiy, 
Long Island 
Isaac Hicks & Son 
Davis, McGrath & Shepard, Architects, N. Y. 
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In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
April, 1912 
{Continued from page 76) 
Surely there are few of the purely deco¬ 
rative shrubs that can surpass the currant. 
With these suggestions, then, let us at¬ 
tempt to get rid of some ancient conven¬ 
tions. There is no reason to think that the 
fruit garden need be relegated to the 
kitchen end of the house. Neglect for a 
while the fruit ciilturists’ rigid rules for 
economical arrangement, and as you or¬ 
der your trees and bushes proceed as 
though they were shrubs for decorative 
purposes only; the cultural requirements 
can be complied with as necessity arises. 
One may proceed with the landscape 
features in mind and obtain beautiful re¬ 
sults, with the added value of fruits and 
berries. Perhaps there is a long stretch 
of sunny, bare wall that needs some cov¬ 
ering to tone down its harsh lines. A sharp 
corner of the house seems to cry for soft¬ 
ening with a shrubbery group. The per¬ 
gola out yonder is naked of vines, and the 
summer-house, arbor-like in structure, has 
the same necessity. The corner of the 
porch, too, might be vine clad. If yours 
is to be a utility garden, you will have to 
give up the idea of having many beds, but 
there are useful plants to fill one or two. 
Take the catalogue, then, and looking 
among the descriptions of various fruits, 
choose those of plum, peach, apple pear 
and cherry that please yon most. Then 
treat them as though they were sirnply 
flowering shrubs. There is no reason why 
they can not be arranged as beautifully as 
the ordinary shrub, and at the same time 
yield you good return; nor need you vio¬ 
late any rules for placing them. 
You may use peach trees trained against 
an ugly wall, if it faces south, and you 
will find the fruit is good and that the 
trees'take up a minimum amount of room. 
Two of the photographs accompanying 
-this article _show an attractive way of 
using trained fruit trees. In the one at 
the left-hand side of page 15, the apple 
trees growing against the simple lattice 
_ work make a display it would be hard to 
obtain from other sources. In the illus- 
iration- beside it, the vast, bare expanse of 
wall will .soon be rendered beautiful by the 
fruit trees that are being trained upon a 
neif-work of heavy wire spread before the 
surface of the wall. 
' Our general advice would be for the 
dwarf fruit tree. These little fellows 
seem to give as fine results as the old- 
fashioned type, and bear fruit apparently 
out of all pr-oportion to their size. If the 
place is one of large extent, the larger ap¬ 
ple trees can be grouped on an expansive 
lawn, showing wonderfully well in the 
spring, and making a pleasant, bordered 
retreat during the summer and fall when 
the fruit is ripening. There is always -a 
place for shaded woodland, and the or¬ 
chard might just as well supply this ; 
The other requirements .of shrubs and 
vines can likewise be filled as suggested 
above. There is -no reason why one cannot 
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