CHOICE FRUIT TREES AND ORNAMENTALS 



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Ornamental Department 



There has been a wide misunderstanding of the term "Home Planting" in the past, and many persons have 

 taken it to mean an elaborate and expensive setting out of trees, vines and plants about the home, involving the 

 service of a high-priced landscape architect and a great quantity of costly nursery stock. 



This, however, is not correct, and we have for several years been making a special effort toward producing 

 the kind of reliable shade trees, plants and vines that could be had at a very reasonable cost, and of showing 

 how they could be arranged so as to produce the most striking effect without calling in any outside assistance. 



It is a fact proven over and over again that planting a few trees on a property increases its actual value 

 tremendously — many times greater than the cost of the trees themselves — and that such properties often sell 

 for more than others, perhaps larger and more desirably located, but which lack the beautiful touch that the 

 trees and vines would give. 



Planting ornamentals throws a different atmosphere 

 about the place; as has so well been said, it makes the 

 difference between "house" and "home." Besides the 

 beautiful point of view, having trees about the house 

 means a great saving in the way of protection. In the 

 summer-time trees help to keep the house cool and cast 

 an inviting shade over the lawn, and bring songbirds 

 with their sweet music; in the winter they act as a wind- 

 break, sheltering the home from storm and simplifying the 

 heating problem. All the year round, trees protect the 

 house, making it necessary to paint less often. 



Of late we have been giving particular attention to 

 our Ornamental Department. On his trip abroad last 

 year, our Mr. Orlando Harrison purchased many selected 

 lots of stock, and these, together with our constant efforts 

 to make our Ornamental Department the most complete 

 of its kind, place at your disposal a first-class stock of 

 everything needed to make the home beautiful. 



The limited space allotted to this department cur- 

 tails our list to a great extent, but we are prepared, 

 at all times, to furnish other species and varieties not 

 found herein. Write us, and we will gladly advise you 

 as to the varieties best suited to your soil and climate. 



Our book "How to Plant About the Country Home" 

 deals with these problems in an interesting way showing 



how the home maybe made beautiful at small cost. A copy » ri vr • t. • 4. « 



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may be had free with your first order, if you return the neighbor's grounds. G. 



coupon on the envelope in which this Catalogue came to you . the foreground. 



e which we planted on a 

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