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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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•^ESTBURY NURSERIES Deciduous Trees 13 THORN, Double Pink. Similar to the Scarlet, with flowers bright pink. Double White. With the above it forms an orna- ment fit for any lawn. Cockspur (CratcEgus crus-galli). A horizontally- branched tree, extending its lower limbs widely along the ground. The foliage is thick and glossy, and it bears abundant red berries. Scarlet-fruited (C. coccinea). Has white flowers in May, and scarlet fruit in September. Iiongf-thorned (C coccinea var. macrocanthd). This variety is distinguished by its curved spines, 4 inches in length. Not previously cultivated. Punctata (C. punctata). The last four are native species. They look well on a hillside or rough bank, grouped with cedars and bayberry. WALNUT. Valuable large trees. Black. A tree of immense size, with broad top. Large nuts ; wood dark brown. Butternut (White Walnut). A smaller tree than the Black Walnut. Nuts excellent. English (Madeira Nut, or Persian Walnut). Although sometimes killed at the tops when young by our winters, it makes a handsome tree. The nuts are well known. WILLOW. A large and varied class of trees adapted to lawns, for shade and quick screens, and for waterside planting. They are adapted to a great variety of soils, some sorts luxuriating even amid the salt spray of sea coasts. The ease with which they can be transplanted, and the brief time they require to form good sized trees, are other argu- ments in their favor. The bright bark and twigs of some Willows are beautiful in winter.
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Babylonian Weeping*. der cut, page 14. For description, see un- Salamon's Weeping. This is a marked improve- ment on the last, of which it is a variety. It grows tall and upright, and the ends of the current year's twigs arch downward. It is not a mournful tree, but bright and cheerful, with its graceful, waving spray.

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