Title: Trees for Long Island
Identifier: CAT31284655 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hicks Nurseries (Westbury, Nassau County, N. Y. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Westbury (Nassau County) Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs
Publisher: Westbury Station, N. Y. : Westbury Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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YELLOW-WOOD. A tree with smooth bark like a beech, and racemes of wistaria-like cream-colored flowers. Very beautiful when in blossom, and also attractive in winter because of its distinct coloring. One of the best lawn trees, and very highly esteemed ; a good speci- men on a lawn is always an object of general admiration. We supply well-grown trees, ready to push up into specimen shape. TULIP TREE (Whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera). A tall and large tree, the magni- ficent, erect bole of a smooth gray color, carried well up into the head, giving off branches which make a wide sweep downward ; leaves bright green, shining, free from insect and fungous enemies. Flowers large, yellow, blotched with orange and green, of a pleasant fragrance, and as beautiful as many rare orchids. Because of their delicate coloring in unusual tints, they sometimes escape attention, but tasteful people have in recent years awaked to the beauty of these tulip-like blooms. This most stately tree is surely one of the very best of our native Ameri- can growths, and combines to a great degree the qualities desirable for planting on broad avenues, parks or lawns. It should be trans- planted to good soil in spring, and requires some care to have success in growth ; but it is well worth the necessary care to have it estab- lished in any suitable place, after which it is a continual satisfaction, giving no trouble as to insects or diseases of any sort. BABYLOWIAW WEEPING WILLOW. The familiar species, with long, rope-like branches. which wave in the slightest breeze. Green very early in spring and late in fall. Has about the same expression as the southern live oak when coveied with moss. WILLOW, Laurel-leaved. A beautiful and distinct, medium-sized tree. The leaves are broad, about 4 inches long, and even more glossy than laurel leaves, shining like a pol- ished surface. Bright sun- light renders it the most conspicuous of green trees. It can be clipped to standard form, resembling the ba)'^ tree, or grown in a hedge, when it is similar to the privet, but taller. The thick foliage adapts it to seaside planting. Golden-barked (Salix alba var. vitellina). A large- growing, upright tree, with bright yellow bark. It is frequently grown in shrub form, for contrast with the red-twigged dogwood. Red-barked (5. alba var. Britzensis). The bark of this is salmon-colored, and is desirable for contrast with the above. Kilmarnock. An umbrella- formed tree, about 5 feet high. It has pussy willow catkins in March.
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TULIP TREE (Liriodendron Tulipifera). (On our grounds; brick smoke-house covered with Japan Ivy.)

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