Landscape Department. 



In this progressive age, it is ssldoJii ihat anyone builds a house without first securing the services 

 of an architect. The aid of a couipeteut landscape gardener is even more necessary to properly plan 

 and execute ornamental plantings than is tne assistance of an architect in the construction of a build- 

 ing. The lack of professional advice in ornamenting the grounds of many country homes is largely 

 responsible for their unattractive appearance. A competent landscape gardener will not only produce 

 pleasing efTects, but will save the owner much money, to say nothing of the annoyance and loss of 

 time caused by making alterations and additions in order to secure satisfactory results. 



For over thirty years I have been engaged ia laying out and planting both large and small private 

 estates, public parks, etc. My patrons are people of refined taste, exacting and critical, and it is to 

 them I refer. I make plans and estimates of cost for landscape work of any character or any extent. 

 Where important work is contemplated upon large grounds, a personal visit to the property is neces- 

 sary ; for grounds of limited extent, I am usually able to make a plan, if but a rough outline, giving 

 distances and location of buildings, is mailed me. My prices for supplying and planting the nursery 

 stock reqnired to execute the plans are so moderate, that my estimate is usually accepted ; hence, it is 

 but rarely that I make any charge for a plan. 



Transplanting Large Trees 



For the past ten years I have been transplanting large, fully developed shade and evergreen trees 

 with complete success, using the Ryder Tree Mover, a very powerful machine, upon which there are 

 many patents. The operation is so thorough that frequently the tree moved will grow more in one 

 year after being transplanted than it grew the two previous years. The fibrous roots are not disturbed; 

 only the heavy stay roots. The latter furnish practically no nourishment to the tree, but, as the name 

 implies, are supplied by nature to hold the tree erect. When the stay roots are severed and the ends 

 cut smoothly, they emit hundreds of fibrous ones, which take up great quantities of nourishment and 

 cause the tree to grow with renewed vigor. 



Daring the period named, I have had the pleasure to move numerous large trees for the following 

 named gentlemen : Mr. Elias Aisel, New York City, Mr. W. A. Bloodgood, Seabright, N. J., Mr. John 

 H.Cook, Red Bank, N. J., Mr. Robert L. Crawford. Seabright, N. J.. General Thomas T. Eckert, 

 Elberon, N. J., Mr. Murry Guggenheim, West End., N. J,, Hon. Thomas N. McCarter, Newark, N. J., 

 the late Jfohn A. McCall, Mr. Clarence M. Roof, Lakewood,N. J., Mr. P. vSanford Ross, Jersey City, N. 

 T., Mr. Chester M. Williams, Tjttle Silver, N. J., Mr. Arthur H. Hearn, New York City, Mr. Arthur J. 

 Horgan, New York City. 



Estimates promptly furnished to anyone who wishes work of this character done; our representa- 

 tive will call if desired. 



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Uow to Eav Out Suburban IJome Qrounds* By Herbert j. kelivAway. 



The scope of this new work on Landscape Gardening can perhaps best be told by the annexed 

 extract from its preface : "Out-door art is to-day recognized as necessary to the completion of a 

 home. What are the best methods to pursue in designing small suburban grounds? As an assistance 

 to those with moderate income, wishing to secure beautiful surroundings, the following thoughts are 

 written. They are not intended to deal with the treatment of large estates or explain the many 

 principals of landscape architecture, but only as an incentive to good taste.*' 



The work is written in an interesting and lucid style, exceptionally free of technical, ambigu- 

 ous terms. It is copiously illustrated, beautifully printed and handsomely bound in velum ; 112 pages 

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Cbc Book of Rock and Uiater hardens. By Charles Teoncer. 



"This book is written for those who love flowers of mountain and stream, of alpine, pasture 

 and reed-fringed pool; for those who gladly welcome into our gardens a class of plants whose beauty 

 and charm ia not surpassed by any other. It is also written with the hope that it may arouse inter- 

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 them; and especially is it offered to the many whose dull and ugly 'rockeries' might so easily be 

 tranifjr ned into 'rock gardens* — a different thing altogether." 



Very useful and interesting to all lovers of hardy plants ; of untold value to all who are about 

 to construct or who possesses '* Rock ** or " Water " Gardens. Finely printed with many beautiful 

 illustrations. Bound in board cover, 92 pages and index. F*rice $r.io. 



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