February, 1906 
TO HOME BUILDERS” 
is a large portfolio containing handsome illustrations of exteriors, 
description, floor plans, estimate cost, etc., of 47 designs for artistic 
modern homes in frame, brick, cement and hollow concrete block 
construction. Invaluable for home builders. Size 712 x | 1, printed 
on fine plate paper, with portfolio holder. Every plan original, artistic 
and practical. Can actually be built at estimated cost given. Sent 
prepaid on receipt of $1. 
Complete working drawings, details and specifications of 
any plan shown in portfolio, together with blank Builder’s Contract 
and Bond will be furnished at terms given in portfolio. 
Special Plans at Reasonable Fees. If you have original ideas 
for a home you desire worked out I shall be glad to correspond with you. 
HENRY WITTEKIND, Licensed Architect, 
mS) CABLE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. 
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Cracked 
Ceilings ? 
Ceilings and Walls of Plaster a/ways 
erack and, sooner or later, leak, dis- 
color, and /fa//-—-dangerous, unsightly, un- 
sanitary, and expensive to repair. 
Northrop Steel 
Ceilings and Walls 
never crack or fall, givevea/ protection against 
fire, water, dust, and vermin, last as long as 
the house stands, and never need any re- 
pairs. They wear longer, look better, 
and cost much less, in the end, than 
Plaster, Wood, or 
anything 
else. 
If building 
or remodeling— 
or, if any repairs 
are needed—write for 
Catalog and Price-List 
and our valuable booklet 
“Plaster, Wood—or 
Metal?” 
Northrop, Coburn & 
Dodge Co. 
41 Cherry St. 
N.Y. 
MODERN HIGH CLASS FRESCOE 
and INTERIOR DECORATIVE WORK 
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AMERICAN HOMES 
AND GARDENS 143 
Make Your Grounds Beautiful 
and Garden Useful 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
WE are pleased to furnish surveys, topographical and planting plans, designs 
for Formal, Old-Fashioned Flower and Rose Gardens at reasonable cost. 
Old and worn-out estates renovated. We make a specialty of rustic work. 
We have practical and artistic experts on landscape development in every branch 
and can advise on every detail. Distance no object. 
Reto Ss EF. $ 
E have the most complete 
collection of strong field- 
grown two-year-old plants 
ever offered to the flower-loving 
public ; upwards of 100,000 are 
now in our storehouses awaiting 
shipment. The kinds consist of 
) H(t WW the choicest that we have imported 
(Re Z2 from all parts of the world, in 
addition to many thousands grown 
in our Nurseries. 
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Bes ”™m Among Our Specialties : 
ek): BY Ui g BLUE SPRUCE (True }—Our 
Z stock consists of several thousand 
specimens, in all sizes from 10 
inches to IO feet. 
OLD-FASHIONED 
FLOWERS.—The largest 
collection ever held in America 
is now growing in our Nurseries. 
An idea of its extent can be 
had by reviewing our Hardy 
Plant Catalogue. 
HARDY RHODODEN- 
DRONS.—We have them in 
large quantities. Now is the 
See our catalogue for prices and particulars- proper time to order. 
Visitors to our Nurseries are always welcome. 
BOBBINK Q ATKINS Landscape 
RUTHERFORD, N. J. Gardeners 
Nurserymen 
and Florists 
Twenty Years’ Experience 
in close practical touch with large and small estates in all parts of the country enables us to offer to every 
owner of Grounds and Gardens our special help in Designs and suggestions for the improvement of such, 
and with greater economy and saving than can be secured in any other way. We study to meet the individ- 
ual requirements of each place,and supply both Plans and Material in the most economical manner. 
§] Whether in Iowa or Maine, our practical sugges- 
ea tions enable you to plant your Lawn, your Garden, 
= Re or any other portion of your place, with a great 
; saving, and we ask you to write us and we will help 
you, giving our time to accomplish something for 
3 you ina practical and painstaking fashion. { We 
send men of experience at any time at nominal 
rates to advise us on every leading question of 
Landscape work. Drainage, House location, Road 
making, Formal and old-fashioned Gardens and 
every feature of Landscape work, we give close 
and careful attention to. We will refer to many 
hundreds of private properties which we have 
brought to perfection. { Our Nurseries are among 
the largestin the United States, and we ask but 
one profit in supplying our clients, selling at 
lowest tates possible. { We offer every known 
hardy form of 
Trees, Shrubs, Rhododendrons, 
Evergreens, Herbaceous Plants, 
Vines, Dahlias, Bulbs, Etc. 
at prices which, after you investigate, will attract your close attention. {If you have any problem to 
solve; any difficulty to meet inthe way of I-andscape Work and Gardening, we are willing to assist, and 
will be glad to have you write us. From all parts of the country we have had inquiries in past seasons and 
with good results, and we invite correspondence with those who wish aid of an expert character. WRITE 
US FOR CATALOGUES, which are the most valuable printed. 
Ete SLIMY SEic, INURSERY CO), 22Milk Street, Cor Broad 
Old-Fashioned Flowers 
Like those our grandmothers grew, are be- 
coming more popular each succeeding year 
Our handsome new cztalogue of Hardy Vines, Shrubs, Fruit and 
Ornamental Trees, Roses, etc., contains a full line of the only kind of 
nursery stock you want to lend the most beauty to 
your grounds. It is free for the asking, and it will 
pay you to buy direct from the grower, for we allow 
you Wholesale Prices on Guaranteed Nursery Stock. 
GROVER NURSERY COMPANY 
90 Trust Building ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
