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RESIDENCE OF HOWARD C. SMITH, OYST 



WARD H. FICKEN, 



A New Idea in Planting the Grounds 



We present to you a method by which you can see the finished result 

 before planting. The trees, shrubs and vines around the house illustrated 

 above are now being planted by us. They were sketched on the photograph to 

 show the owner exactly how the house would look after the planting was done. 



We can help you in a similar way. 



If you expect to improve your grounds this Spring, let us make you a sketch 

 and estimate now before the busy Spring season starts. 



The sketch, having all the appearances of a photograph, will show the 

 exact effect of your grounds after they have been planted. 



Now is the time to plan the grounds in readiness for early Spring planting. On 



account of the large amount of work already ordered for the coming Spring which 

 will engross our complete attention immediately the frost is out of the ground, 

 we would ask that you write us now as it will be impossible to take up 

 this work in the busy planting season. Our landscape architect, formerly 

 Superintendent Gardener of the Park System, Borough of the Bronx, New York 

 City, is at your disposal now. 



We carry out our landscape designs by the use of only the finest Specimen 

 E-vergreens and Deciduous Trees and Shrubs, which we grow under ideal 

 conditions in our nurseries. Thus the most hoped for effects cannot fail to 

 materialize. Price list of our stock sent on request. 



THE COTTAGE GARDENS COMPANY, - Queens, Long Island 



A Complete Manual of House Building in the Country 



The 



Country 



House 



BY 



CHARLES EDW. 

 HOOPER 



THIS volume 

 gives compe- 

 tently and in detail, 

 yet without techni- 

 calities, all the in- 

 formation neces- 

 sary in the building 

 of a country house. 

 Its practical value is unlimited. Nearly 300 illus- 

 trations. Net, $3.00. (Postage, 30 cents.) 



THE GARDEA' 

 MAGAZINE 



COV/NTRY LIFE 

 W AMERICA 



THE WORLD'S 

 WORK. 



DOVBLEDAY PAGE - CO AEW YORK 



NOW IS THE TIME TO PLAN TO 

 MAKE YOUR GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL 



Early preparation means that when the Spring planting season opens you 

 experience no delay in the proper execution of your work. 



If you have an old estate to renovate or a new one to develop, a formal or 

 old-fashioned garden to construct, or any work to be done to generally 

 improve the grounds, you should consult us at once. Your grounds require 

 individual treatment ; by consulting with us at this time we are able to give 

 whatever work you have under consideration careful attention. Don't defer 

 the matter until our busy planting season. 



B. & A. HARDY SPECIALTIES 



Evergreens, Conifers, Blue Spruce, Hybrid and Maximum Rhododendrons, 

 Azaleas, Shade and Weeping Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Hardy Old-Fashioned 

 Flowers, Grasses and Bulbs, Hybrid Perpetual and Tea Roses, in tree and 

 bush form, Vines and Climbers, Trained and Ordinary Fruit Trees, English 

 pot-grown Grape Vines. All of these and many others are growing in our 

 Nursery and enumerated in our instructive, illustrative catalogue. 



We are always pleased to have intending purchasers visit our Nursery. Rutherford is the 

 first station out on the Main Line of the Erie Railroad from New York and Jersey City. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS nur^rymIn^flSI^s Rutherford, N. J. 



