APRIL, 1908 
REES 
_ Fruit and Ornamental 
Shrubs, Evergreens, 
Roses, Hardy Plants 
All the Best and Hardiest Varieties. 
Largest and most varied Collections 
in America at best prices direct 
from the grower. 
We have no 
agents. Beautiful new illustrated de- 
scriptive Catalogue, with cultural di- 
rections, mailed FREE on request. 
Ellwanger & Barry 
Nurserymen—Horticulturists 
Mount Hope Nurseries. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
ESTABLISHED 1840. 
NEW QUIDOOR BOOKS 
Four Seasons in 
the Garden 
By EBEN E. REXFORD 
Whether the amateur gardener has a 
little plot of ground beside the back fence 
in the city or owns a more pretentious garden 
in the suburbs, he will find something of par- 
ticular interest to him in this book. 
It covers a wide range, from making a little 
window-box to the work of rural and village 
improvement societies, and is written not by 
a theoretical, but by a practical amateur gar- 
dener who knows whereof he speaks. 
Twenty-seven illustrations in tint, 
a frontispiece in colors, decorated 
title-page, half-titles and lining- 
papers. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net. 
Postpaid, $1.65. 
Our Trees 
How toKnow Them 
Photographs from Nature 
By ARTHUR I. EMERSON 
With a cuide to their recognition at any 
season of the year and notes on their charac- 
teristics, distribution and culture 
By CLARENCE M. WEED, D.Sc. 
One hundred and forty illustrations 
Size 714 in. x 10 in., Cloth $3.00 net 
Postpaid, $3.20. 
The Small Country 
Place 
By SAMUEL T. MAYNARD 
Author of “Landscape Gardening as Applied 
to Home Decoration,” etc. 
This book was written by a man who has 
spent more than thirty years teaching botany 
and horticulture. It is thoroughly practical, 
and will be of great value to those who live 
upon small country places, especially those 
whose work in the city allows them but a few 
hours each day to spend about the home. 
The growing of farm and garden crops, the 
care of the horse, the cow, and poultry, and 
similar subjects are discussed, and there are 
many pictures showing vegetable and flower 
gardens, lawns, walks, roads, etc. 
Seventy-five illustrations from 
photographs, and numerous line 
drawings. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net. 
Postpaid, $1.65. 
Wild 
Flower Families 
By CLARENCE M. WEED, D.Sc. 
The haunts, characteristics, and family relationships 
of the more widely distributed herbaceous wild 
flowers, with suggestions for their identification, are 
herein carefully covered. This volume should make 
the study of wild flowers of real interest, not only to 
the teacherand pupil, but to others who desire to 
increase or review their acquaintance with the subject. 
Eighty illustrations from photo- 
graphs. 248 pages. 12mo. Cloth, 
$1.50 net. Postpaid, $.60. 
) J. B. LippincoTr Co., PUBLISHERS, PHILADELPHIA 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
The Readers’ Service will give 
information about motor boats 18] 
One of our ornamental plantings of a public highway. 
HE time for having small “ door-yards’’ is past. No one cares to fence in their 
grounds to within a few feet, when it is possible to give them a broad and 
extended appearance. Why not have our Country homes located in a park? It can 
be done no matter how plain or simple a house may be, attractive grounds is what 
makes a beautiful Country home. 
By beautifying the Highway, you extend your grounds and give the landscape a 
Park-like appearance. It is a simple thing to do, when you know where to get the 
advice about the planting, and the stock to plant. 
We makea specialty of this workand haveall kindsof ORNAMENTAL, FOREST and 
EVERGREEN TREES, desirable for the work, as well as a full line of SHRUBBERY, 
HEDGE and HERBACEOUS PLANTS, ROSES, PERENNIALS, and BOX PLANTS 
for FLOWER=GARDENS, as well as all the best varieties of FRUIT TREES, both 
dwarf and standard. BERRY BUSHES, ASPARAGUS and STRAWBERRY PLANTS, 
We also have the facilities for moving LARGE TREES, from ten to twelve inches in 
diameter, and so obtain immediate effects. 
Our Landscape Architect can make a plan of your grounds. Do not wait until it 
is time to plant the stock before you make your plans. d 
Attend to it at once; it is just the time; and then be ready for early planting. 
Send to-day for our Catalogue. Any further information gladly given. Address 
THE STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS CO. 
Tel. 79-2 New Canaan, Conn. 
Rosedale Specialties 
Irish Are the most popular because they give the best 
Roses results. We offer nearly 200 choice varieties— 
heavy two year plants mostly—at $3.50 per doz- 
en; $25.00 per 100. ‘This stock is grown to or- 
der for us by Dickson & Son, of Ireland. We 
offer no pot plants—no seconds. 
Evergreens [Is another leading Rosedale specialty which has 
in attracted large buyers. An order for a carload 
Carloads one day, shipped the next, brought this response: 
“T have delayed writing until I could give youa 
full report as to the carload cf trees. They ar- 
rived the day after being shipped. I am greatly 
pleased with the quality of the trees you sell and 
the careful way in which they were packed.” 
Trees and Seeing the superior color of our Colorado Blue 
Shrubs Spruce, one customer included 200 of them, 
which made his order 10200 evergreen trees. 
Hardy Persons who visited several large nurseries last 
Flowers summer, said we had the cleanest, thriftiest and 
largest collection of any. We are offering most 
varieties at $1.50 per dozen; $10.00 per roo. 
The Rosedale Catalogue gives sizes and prices of Fruits, 
Hedge Plants, Shrubs in tree form, and a superb lot of the best 
shrubs and trees in specimen sizes for immediate effect; 
Magnolias, Maples, Dogwoods, Poplars, etc. 
Landscape Department, 63 Hamilton Place 
S. G. Harris, Rosedale Nurseries, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
