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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
This is the Time of 
the Year to Plant 
HicRs 
Evergreens 
We have quantities of Douglas Spruce (a blue 
tree from Colorado) of this size; perfect speci¬ 
mens and every one of them root pruned. How 
many will you want? 
Why make that old mistake of putting it off till 
spring, when your results are every bit as good if 
it is done now? Besides you have the benefit of 
their green effect all this winter and the trees 
have a chance to grow a good lot of roots in 
August and September so that next spring they 
will develop vigorously and rapidly. 
But when you do buy evergreens, buy Hicks. 
We have given all our attention just to growing 
trees and our soil is of a nature that grows ideal 
roots for transplanting. We dig trenches around 
the evergreens and root prune them. The roots 
then branch out and make a net work of fine fibers. 
These are saved in the ball of earth which supports 
the tree in transit and while it is becoming estab¬ 
lished in its new home. 
Every one of our evergreens is guaranteed to 
thrive whether shipped ten or five hundred miles. 
You take no risk, and our records show that we 
take but little. 
In our nursery are trees of all sizes, from a foot 
and a half high at $150.00 a thousand, to those 25 
feet high at $35.00 or $40.00 each and upwards. 
We do not know of another nursery that has such 
a stock. We will ship trees from our nursery up 
to 30 feet high, or we will come right to your 
grounds and move your own trees or move in 
trees from the vicinity. 
Any of the evergreen family can be moved at 
once, while Maples, Lindens, Catalpas, and such, 
from last of September on. 
That new catalog of ours, “Hicks Trees”, tells 
our tree story briefly and clearly. The illustra¬ 
tions are many and show numerous examples of 
big trees that have been successfully moved. It 
also shows how they are moved, which you will 
particularly like. 
The price list which we send with it, is illus¬ 
trated and arranged in a way that makes tree 
ordering exceedingly easy. 
Come to the nurserv and make your own selec¬ 
tions, if possible, but if you can’t come, then order 
from the catalog. 
Isaac Hicks Son 
Westbury, Long Island 
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.Y 3 The best varieties, both new ikij 
and old, and the best methods of \ 
planting to raise a full crop of straw- 
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DREER’S 
Mid-Summer Catalogue 
Also the best varieties of Celery, Cabbage i 
Plants, etc. 
A most complete list of the Best Hardy 
Perennial Seeds for summer sowing. 
Also vegetable and farm seeds for summer 
and fall sowing. Select list of seasonable deco¬ 
rative and flowering plants. 
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The Right Use of Evergreens 
(Continued from page 90) 
recommended with evergreens as with 
deciduous trees. They do not take kind¬ 
ly to mixing, and either the one variety 
chosen should be used or the combina¬ 
tion which Nature herself furnishes in 
the Hemlock and Pine, referred to before. 
This, with deciduous trees interspersed, 
is as fine an arrangement as it is possible 
to make. 
Wherever it is possible to make an 
evergreen group the background for some 
floral display, it is well to do so, provid¬ 
ing the fiowers do not detract from the 
trees. The whole should form a picture 
rather than either one furnishing a feat¬ 
ure. Rhododendrons fill the requirements 
of such a position perfectly, being them¬ 
selves evergreen and harmonizing as al¬ 
most nothing else can with the dignity 
of the trees. It is not by any means es¬ 
sential, however, to carry out such an ar¬ 
rangement in order to get the best results 
from planting the latter, for they are suffi¬ 
cient unto themselves. 
The form of the smaller and slower- 
growing species is of more importance 
than anything else concerning them, for 
these are essentially the material for small 
places and for formal work. Some of 
these are very thin and long and pointed, 
others are broad and low and globular; 
selection in this instance should be guided 
by the style of the place, of a house and 
its garden, rather than by any thought 
for the garden’s future appearance. This 
attitude is allowable to meet the limi¬ 
tations of a small place, if one plans to 
throw out unsuitable material as fast as 
it becomes unsuitable. The growth of 
the horticultural varieties which produce 
these various forms is so slow that after 
all changes will seldom need to be made 
because of increase in size, and the prun¬ 
ing shears will usually keep them to the 
lines which they are expected to fill, if 
they show any tendency to overstep. 
Usually their forms are pretty well fixed 
and they adhere to them without pruning. 
/ uni penis Hibemica — the Irish Juniper 
— and Thuya occidentalis, variety pyra- 
midalis, are both slender and spire-like 
columns; Thuya occidentalis, variety 
compacta and Juniperus communis are 
dwarf and close-growing; Juniperus Sa¬ 
bina is prostrate ; Picea orientalis is shrub¬ 
like; Finns Mughus is low and dense; 
Rctinispora pisifera and Retinispora plu- 
mosa are small, columnar trees; Thuya 
occidentalis, variety Tom Thumb, as its 
name implies, is a tiny dwarf, suitable for 
edgings. 
Boxwood should find a place in every 
garden, great or small, the selection of 
its form also being guided by the style 
of the garden or of the house. The for¬ 
mal, pyramidal Box naturally takes its 
place in the formal, stiff and precise gar¬ 
den, or at the entrance of the dwelling 
that is symmetrical in its line; the rugged 
and unconventional bushy Box suggests 
old dooryards and the easy lines and pict- 
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