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The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



Making 

 Your Own World 



BRIGHTER! 



This is addressed particularly to the Business men and 



women among Garden Magazine Readers. You are 



familiar with the value of impressions that start the day 



right. You know how a beautiful sight works like a 



refreshing draught at the end of a long, hot business 



I day. And those of you who have a lane or a drive 



as approach to your homes will appreciate lovely 



tea. Bridal Wreath (Spirea Van Houttei) acting above 



as both, border and screen. It shuts out a nearby 



street, secures privacy for the home, and through- 



* out May and early June meets the home comer 



with fragrance and beauty. 



Will Your Paths Be 

 Brighter Next Summer?- 



A question easily answered through the me- 

 dium of our extra heavily rooted extra choice 

 specimen plants of the best flowering shrubs 

 for America. Here is a selection designed to 

 give you an abundance of bloom this first 

 year, a long season of flowers year after year, 

 plus the satisfaction that no investment holds 

 greater future rewards than this: 



50 Fine Shrubs- 

 Five Each of Ten 

 Varieties — for 



$20. 



Clethra alnifolia— Sweet Pep- 

 per Bush. Blooms in August. 

 Cornus alba Siberica — Dog- 

 wood. White flowers in June. 

 Deutzia — Pride of Rochester. 

 Pink, in late June. 

 Forsythia Fortunei — Golden 

 Bells — in very early spring. 

 Lilacs, several varieties — 

 Blooming during May and June, 

 shown alongside. 



Philadelphus Coronarius — 



Mock Orange. Blooms in June. 

 Spirea Van Houttei — The 

 greatest show of May, shown 

 above. 



Stephanandra fl e xu o s a — ■ 

 Blooms in June, beautiful foliage. 

 Viburnum Opulus sterilis 

 — July blooming Snowball. 

 Weig-ela Eva Rathke — Red. 

 Blooms from spring until autumn- 



Special Service and A Catalogue 



While our free catalogue will prove helpful to the initiated, it also leaves 

 many questions unanswered for the new comer to the ranks. It is the signers 

 pleasure in business to help with personal and practical advice. Tell me 

 the problems of your home grounds. If a life time experience with plants. 

 can help, their solution is yours for the asking, as is the catalogue. 



AMERICAN NURSERIES 



"Successful For Over a Century." H. E. Holden, Manager. 



SINGER BUILDING. NEW YORK CITY 



Let Primroses Glorify 

 YOUR Rock Garden 



Added charm may be given any and every rock garden by 

 liberal planting of Primroses. And do you know that 

 nearly 40 distinct varieties of Primulas are now available, 

 giving you bloom from earliest spring until late summer? 



Almost the first thing we did after starting in business was 

 to develop our collection of Primroses. From England, 

 Scotland, and Switzerland we secured the choicest avail- 

 able. Among others we offer Miss Jekyll's Munstead 

 Strain of Polyanthus or Bunch Primroses. Besides rare 

 new varieties of Auriculas, Bullesiana, and Japonica Hy- 

 brids, this nursery offers the 



Choicest Collection of 



Rare Alpines and Hardy Plants 



in America 



We would mention Androsace lanuginosa from the plateaus 

 of the Northwestern Himalayas; Ramondia Pyrenaica, 

 gathered in the Pyrenees mountains and a distant relative 

 of the Primroses ; Edraianthus graminif olius, a native of the 

 Dalmatian Coast along the Adriatic Sea; Aethionema 

 stylosum, tiny bushlings from the sunny limestones of the 

 Levant; Cytisus in several varieties; these are dwarf brooms 

 from Dalmatia and the Asiatic Islands and of inestimable 

 value in the rock garden. 



We could continue this most attractive list at length, but 

 our descriptive catalogue will, we are sure, interest you. 

 Besides providing the choicest now obtainable in the way 

 of plant material, we aim to give 



Service as Builders 



We build and plant Rock Walls, Rockeries, Bog Gardens, 

 and all plantings entailing the use of Alpines. 



Consultation by appointment 



Wolcott Nurseries 



Jackson Clinton Road Michigan 



