Here at Louisiana, Mo., We Have Ideal Soi I and Climate for Producing Ornamentals. Note The Main Line of C. &"A.'R. R. 



Mo., has been the fountain head of higher 

 quality plants and trees. Since the found- 

 ing of the nursery in 1816 by Judge James 

 Stark, there have been four generations 

 of Starks in this institution. This, the 

 fourth generation, still cherishes the 

 ideals of the early founders. They re- 

 gard the work not merely as a business 

 not only as an industry but as a pub- 

 lic service. Thus Stark Bro's new method 

 of giving free landscaping service is in 

 harmony with the one-hundred-year-old 

 policy of Stark Service to every Stark 

 customer. So it has been that ever 

 since 1816 the name of Stark has stood 

 for all that grew best in Nature for 

 the enjoyment of mankind. 



Co-operation With Customer 

 Our Policy 



Stark Bro's Landscape Department 

 co-operates with the client we want 

 to know your ideas and wishes about 

 the treatment of your home grounds so 

 we can follow and adapt your sugges- 

 tions to the design as far as possible. 

 If you have a preference as to any 

 particular kind of tree, shrub or rose, 

 we will consider this in drawing the 

 plans. In other words, your ideas and 

 desires will be incorporated in definite 

 plans, which will be in accordance with 

 the best, accepted principles of land- 

 scape gardening. If some of your sug- 

 gestions are not adapted to this par- 

 ticular problem, we will write and 

 explain the reason to you. Briefly, our 

 aim is to design a planting that will re- 

 sult in the greatest amount of pleasure 

 and satisfaction to our customer. 



A Three Months' Change Planting by Stark Bro's 



Compare with picture on the left a good illustration of "before and after" 

 effect of one of Stark Bro's Free Plans. Note hedge and shrubs. 



Quality the Prime Essential 



We believe with you that quality is 

 the prime essential in nursery products. 

 Things must grow and bear bloom, or 

 else money and priceless time are 

 wasted. The men whom we have 

 gathered about us in these many years 

 have the know-how of growing and 

 training each individual shrub or tree. 

 No tree or plant is any better than its 

 roots Stark Bro's plants have strong, 

 thrifty root systems. 



How To Obtain Free Land- 

 scaping Service 



All that our Landscape Department 

 requires to make a landscape planting 

 plan of your grounds is a simple, rough 

 outline sketch showing the shape and 

 dimensions of the lot, location of 

 the house, walks, driveways and other 

 permanent buildings. To show 

 you how simple a plan is re- 

 quired, we are reproducing on 

 page 3 a sketch that one of 

 our customers sent us. We also 

 show the finished product the 

 planting plan that our land- 

 scape architects designed from 

 the information shown on this 

 rough sketch. Remember we 

 made no charge whatever for 

 drawing this plan and the cost 

 of the shrubs and trees was 

 moderate. It is a very simple 

 matter to draw the sketch. 

 Anyone can make this drawing 

 in five minutes. Use Stark Bro's land- 

 scape sketch blank, because the ruled 

 lines will make it easier and more simple 

 for you to draw the 

 sketch. You can 

 step off the dimen- 

 sions of your lot, 

 etc., allowing about 

 three feet for each 

 step. If you can 

 send photographs 

 of your lot and 

 house, they will be 

 of assistance to our 

 landscape archi- 

 tects, although 

 photographs are not 

 absolutely neces- 

 sary. Be sure to in- 

 dicate on your 

 sketch which direc- 

 tion is North. Also 

 give any informa- 

 tion about adjoin- 

 ing property that 

 you think would 

 affect the design of 

 your grounds. 



Indicate the Amount You 

 Desire to Spend Now 



It is necessary also for us to know in 

 a rough way if you are limited as to the 

 amount you can spend this season. 

 Possibly you want to do part of the 

 planting this year and finish it next 

 season. Sometimes the cost of the 

 planting can be greatly reduced by 

 making the shrub clumps smaller and 

 using smallerlsized stock, although the 

 landscape effect will not be as quick 

 nor as satisfactory as where larger 

 sized stock is used. You will realize 

 that it is important that we know how 

 much you feel that you can spend, and 

 whether you want to do all the work 

 at this time or let it extend over a two 

 or three years period. 



field of Stark Bro's Spirea preferred by careful 

 planters who consider quality. 



Small Amount of Planting Some- 

 times Desirable 



Please bear this point in mind. Our 

 landscape architects in planning your 

 grounds will use just the amount of 

 stock and kind of stock that will 

 produce the best landscape effect. We 

 will not use a lot of unnecessary plant- 

 ing. Where we see that a very small 

 amount of planting will be more effec- 

 tive than an extensive planting, you 

 may be sure that we will consider our 

 customer's interest first and above all. 

 Our landscape architects are thor- 

 oughly trained men with the advantage 

 of much practical experience. If we 

 think that your home already has 

 sufficient planting, we will tell you so. 



Money and Time Wasted Unless 

 Definite Plan Followed 



A definite planting plan (either 

 mental or on paper) is necessary for the 

 best and most economical results. 

 Don't waste your time, money and 

 patience by "hit and miss" planting. 

 An indiscriminate scattering of trees 

 and shrubs will never be satisfactory. 



