A Better Tree Digger 
for Less Money 
We now offer to the trade the new William A 
P. Stark Tree Digger—with practical im- ^ 
provements that make it the strongest, t 
most durable and most satisfactory digger on 
the market—and at a special low introductory 
price - 
Note These Features 
Heavy, crucible steel 
blade with cut edges 
milled, not rolled. Blade 
rever.sible. 
Seasoned oak beams, 
reinforced by heavy, 
bolted steel brace. 
Uprights of 3-inch steel 
compressed and enlarg¬ 
ed at bend, giving ad¬ 
ditional strength. 
Special brace from beam 
to blade makes digger 
run straight and easy. 
Repairs and Extra Parts Reasonable 
We furnish extra parts to fit this or any reg¬ 
ular standard measurement digger at very 
reasonable prices. One of our new crucible 
steel blades with cut edges wili double the life 
of your present digger. Blade alone, $30.00. 
Write for full details. 
William P. Stark Nurseries 
NEOSHO, _ - - MISSOURI 
An Ad Addressed Particularly to Nurserymen and Dealers 
Nurserymen and Dealers 
Y OU have orders for trees that save 
fifteen years. We have been 
manufacturing such trees in the best 
possible manner. You take none of 
the risk but have a chance to make 
a pi-ofit, based on your knowiedge of 
trees, and the confidence your cus¬ 
tomers have in that knowledge. 
It is a proper ambition in tree 
planting, to save time. You have 
been in the habit of discouraging 
planting of shade trees, 6 inches in 
diameter, because you have seen 
inch trees make a beautiful head, 8 
feet wide, in three years, while the 6 
inch tree, originally 15 feet wide, has 
shrunk to 8 feet wide, and become 
thin and unsightly. Experienced 
planters and landscape architects 
have had the same experience. That 
has been one handicap'. The other 
lias been a fear of financial loss if 
the trees die, and becoming a laugh¬ 
ing stock of the community. 
We have overcome these handi¬ 
caps. Our large trees do grow suc- 
cesstully, because they have been 
trained for transplanting. Thev are 
dug witli roots spreading 15 feet and 
packed to carry successfully a thou¬ 
sand miles. 
We guarantee them not only to 
grow satisfactorily. 
It IS the cheapest way we can adver- 
Use. If the tree is not satisfactory, 
tor instance, has a third of the top 
gone, we are glad to ship another 
one. The purchaser has a trifie for 
freight, and the bother of planting, 
but it is the best way to ed¬ 
ucate him to properly wa¬ 
ter, mulch and drain tlie 
tree, and make custom¬ 
ers of his friends and 
neighbors. 
Planting large trees is therefore, 
not a rich man’s gamble, but just as 
safe an investment as a porch or 
awning, and just as important as 
beautiful pictures or a smooth lawn. 
Send for special prices on these 
large Norway Maples, Red Maples, 
Lindens, Pin Oaks and other trees, 
5 to 10 inches in diameter. We have 
a number of them perfect in every 
way, that we are offering at one 
third to one-half reduction, because 
if they stay two years longer, they 
will close in our Nursery Roads, or 
commence to crowd. We planned to 
get up a big stock of these trees, and 
grow them in a wholesale, econom¬ 
ical ■^\'ay, and distribute them in the 
territory from Michigan and Ken¬ 
tucky, to the Atlantic. Now they are 
ready, and 'we ask you to help mar- 
20 year Norway Maple 
20 ft. high, 18 ft. spread. 
ket them to the mutual advantage of 
all three parties concerned. 
October and November are ideal 
times for shipping. The weather is 
moist and cool; the roots get started, 
and the tree grows more vigorously 
than if planted in the rush next 
April. 
Big Evergreens are another de¬ 
mand you often meet, to enclose 
home landscapes and afford a screen 
higher than the level of the eye. 
For this purpose, we have hun¬ 
dreds of White Pine, Austrian Pine, 
Spruce. Fir, Hemlock, Arbor Vitae, 
Retinospora, from 8 to 25 feet high. 
We can show you bloclis of hun¬ 
dreds of trees, moved in the winter 
of 1911 and 1912, 12 feet high. Every 
tree is growing one foot or more. 
Not the thin, stunted growth you 
have often seen This is because we 
root pruned the trees in 1910. Now 
they are ready for your customers, 
at the time when evergreens are 
most appreciated. 
The same guarantee holds as 
above. 
You can approaca your customers 
with a proposition of large shade 
trees and large evergreens, and of¬ 
fer them a brand of large trees 
which they have seen advertised in 
the Country Life Magazines, for the 
last dozen years. You can make up 
a mixed carload order. We will help 
you estimate for freight and plant¬ 
ing. It enables you to do success¬ 
fully, -what has been only nartlv suc¬ 
cessful heretofore. It gives you 
pi-estige for future planting opera¬ 
tions. 
Send for our fully illustrated cata¬ 
logs and printed matter. They’re full 
of suggestions for the right kind of 
planting. 
Jficks |re^ 
Isaac Hicks &’Son 
Wcslburu . Lon^ Islaind 
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