HOME BEAUTIFYING SUGGESTIONS 
Including Lists of Hardy Ornamental Stock 
and Information for Their Proper Use 
HIS little booklet is put out to assist our customers in arriving at a decision as to 
what they want to plant in their grounds. It is hard to judge by the catalogue 
description as to how these shrubs will look in connection with the different style 
houses. We hope that the planting list placed at the side of the result will be a 
great assistance in doing this. 
The engravings have been made from photographs that were taken of cheap or mod- 
erate priced homes, such as the majority of us must be satisfied with, and which respond to 
horticultural planting even more effectively than the more elaborate uses which have spe- 
cial architectural beauties of their own that can best be set off by experienced landscape 
gardeners. Even books upon landscape gardening are written by those whose experience 
runs to the large plantings, and their suggestions and plans are too large for the average 
home owner. 
The principles of proper planting are not hard to master. The shrubs should be massed 
into corners and borders, and a selection made differing in height so that all of them can be 
seen and intermingle in effect, with their bloom coming at different seasons so that they are 
