Nursery and Landscape Department 



The appropriate use of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants in the adornment of city, sub- 

 urban, or country home grounds gives a charm and beauty which are interesting and pleasing to the 

 passer-by as well as to the occupant of the house. 



Plants are a means of expressing restfulness and beauty. Their gradually changing aspect each 

 season heightens their pleasing effect and relieves monotony. The leaf, the branch, and the llower, 

 as well as the form of the plant, manifest a grace and beauty which art endeavors to copy. While art 

 cannot take the place of nature, it plays an important part in teaching us to see and appreciate the 

 beauties of nature. Man should first provide for his necessities, then for comforts, and finally for 

 pleasures. In a new country such as ours, the adornment of grounds has received too little attention, 

 but a stage of development has now been reached where Americans will give more attention to the 

 embellishment of their home grounds. 



The first essential in the adornment of a home area is the Jormatioii oj a suitable plan. In mak- 

 ing this plan, the principal things to be considered are the size of the area, the amount which the 

 owner feels able to expend for the purpose, the soil, exposure, climatic conditions, peculiarities of the 

 site, and the style of treatment, whether formal or natural. Large suburban places or country estates 

 should, in order to maintain harmony and unity, be treated in the natural style, while smaller places 

 of an acre or less, situated among others of like dimensions, can be improved only by the use of the 

 formal style. Hence, the two general stj^les of landscape gardening have been developed. One of 

 these may be adopted, or both may be combined to suit the circumstances. 



What Our Landscape Department Will Do for You 



Acquaint us with your wishes and jDroblems, and we will arrange an interview for you with one of 

 our Landscape Architects. If desired, lie will call on you on your home grounds and give you expert 

 and practical advice. He will prepare a comprehensive and attractive planting plan and estimate for 

 your approval. Upon your acceptance of plan and estimate, men in charge of competent foremen, 

 under the supervision of the head of the Landscape Department, will begin operations to develop your 

 grounds in an economical and workmanlike manner. 



In Short! We furnish anything from a plant to a planting, with a guarantee 



of the Cromwell Gardens Service behind it. 



Native Shrubs. We lay out and plant rose-gardens and hardy perennial gardens in any style 

 consistent with the architecture of the house, surroundings, or lay of the land. We build rock- 

 gardens the superiority of which was attested at the last big New York Flower Show. 



Native Plants. For carrying out naturalistic plantings on a large scale, the logical material 

 to use is that which is native. In connection \\ ith our Nursery, we control over 500 acres containing in 

 unlimited quantities the very cream of our native plants. We can supply in carload lots: 



White-flowerixg Dogwood Azalea nudiflora Vaccinium corymbosum 



Azalea viscosa Viburnum cassinoides K.\lmia 



and many other choice kinds 



Let us quote you quantity prices on native plants. 



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