March, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XI 



HALL EXECUTED IN ENGLISH OAK AND CAEN STONE. 



PERIOD decoration, 

 in the English styles, 

 is a most important 

 department 1 f the activities 

 of The A. J. Crawford 

 Company. This firm has 

 been so long engaged in 

 the collection of English 

 antiques and has secured 

 such extensive opportun- 

 ities to study English 

 interiors renowned for 

 beauty and purity of de- 

 bign, that the authenticity 

 of its reproductions is 

 utterly beyond question. 

 Notable interiors executed 

 for its American patrons 

 will be cited, and photo- 

 graphs furnished upon 

 application. 



A. J. Crawford Company 



251-255 Fifth Avenue XT "V — 1 



1 East 31st Street lNCW I OlfK 



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The World's Finest Nursery Products 



WE do not wish to be boastful by saying our Nursery products 

 are the finest, but we mean just what we say In the 

 Nursery business there are grades and different qualities of 

 grades. We grow and sell only the finest, which is the 

 cheapest, but not always the lowest in price. Before accepting the 

 lowest price on your lists of requirements, you should visit our 

 Nurseries. 



DOSES. In addition to those growing in our Nursery, we have selected 



from the world's finest and best-grown Roses, the plants we offer this 



season. Roses are still one of our leading specialties. Many hundreds of 



well-tried varieties, in tens of thousands of plants, are in our storehouses 

 ready for shipment to any point, far or near. 



DHODODENDRONS, ENGLISH HYBRIDS and MAX- 

 IMUM. Of these, many thousands are perfectly acclimated in our 

 Nursery. Plants in all sizes and every color known to this class of large- 

 leaf evergreen flowering Shrubs. Come and see them. 



CHADE and FRUIT TREES. Our stock of these trees is 

 exceptionally fine this year ; trees that will grow and give results the 

 first season. 



rVERGREENS. We have many hundreds from 3 to 12 feet tall, 

 in all the finest and handsomest varieties. The specimens now growing 

 in our Nurseries are conceded to be the finest ever produced in America. 



DAY TREES and BOXWOOD for Formal, Italian, French and 

 ^^ English Gardens, interior and exterior decoration, in all forms and sizes. 



QLD-FASH!ONED FLOWERS. We have the most com- 

 ^^ plete collection of these popular favorites in the country. Our Land- 

 scape Department makes a specialty of Old-Fashioned Gardens. 



These products, consisting of the largest selection of Ornamentals 

 in the country, are produced in our 150 acres of Nurseries within 

 eight miles of New York City Hall. 



Our Illustrated General Catalog has helped thousands in making 

 selections and purchases ; it will help you. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS 

 Nurserymen and Landscape Architects 



RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



"DILTMORE NURSERY will gladly answer inquiries from 

 *-* friends and patrons concerning what to plant, when to 

 plant and how to plant. The experience of over 20 years is at 

 your command. Let us help you to make your home grounds 



As Beautiful as Biltmore 



We will undertake, at small cost, to prepare plans for 

 beautifying the home surroundings, showing a pleasing arrange- 

 ment of paths and drives combined with artistic grouping of 

 trees and shrubs, on the lines which have given Biltmore its 

 world-wide reputation for attractiveness. 



The Biltmore Nursery Catalog, superb in illustration and 

 encyclopedic in contents, cheerfully sent free, on application. 



BILTMORE NURSERY, Box 134, BILTMORE, N. C. 



