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THE GREENING PICTORIAL SYSTEM OE LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



ADVANTAGES 



OF THE NEW WAY 



The Greening System does 

 away with all this uncertainty 

 b}- combining all three classes 

 of service in one contract and 

 responsibilit}^ ; so that the whole work is done under one 

 management, and relieves the owaier of all worry regard- 

 ing the practical results of his garden. A great burden 

 is lifted from his mind, for it stands to reason that a big 

 company with professional standing to maintain and a 

 large capital involved will not jeopardize either by care- 

 less treatment of a client or mismanagement of his work. 

 Moreover, the size of our business has attracted and will 

 continue to attract the most artistic and skillful designers, 

 engineers, propagators and gardeners in the world, for 

 we can afford to pay them well for their services, and 

 they find with us an opportunity to exercise their highest 

 faculties, which is after all the greatest activating force. 



Creative Genius Longs for the Joy of Expres- 

 sion. At the present time we have with us English, Ger- 

 man, French, Italian and Japanese gardeners, each imbued 

 with the artistic ideals of his own land ; so that our De- 

 partment of Design is justly regarded as the clearing- 

 house of the best landscape ideas in the world. Our 

 gardeners have the immense advantage of consultation 

 among themselves when difficult problems are presented, 

 and the whole nursery serves as an arboretum for stud}' : 

 whilst our studios, including draughting and blue-printing 

 rooms, are equipped with a complete reference library and 

 every known engineering de\'ice and instrument. 



LANDSCAPE 



DESIGNERS 



To summarize, let us repeat 

 that we are landscape designers, 

 and our designs are not only 

 ])ractical but they combine the 



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A SUNKEN GARDEN 



Sunken gardens are very effective, especially as adjuncts to a Colonial mansion. 

 The above subject is in good taste. Near the porch and portico are stately Bay- 

 Trees. Boston Ivies are growing at the base of the building and will soon reach 

 the cornice. A stone balustrade separates the garden from the court and makes the 

 planting a distinct entity. The beds are filled with free-blooming perennials that 

 give a riot of color all summer. In the foreground are Oriental Poppies. Next 

 are Shasta Daisy, Foxglove, Lilium, New England Aster, Helianthus, Boltonia, 

 Ornamental Grass and Yucca Filamentosa. The walks are of brick, laid on gravel. 

 In the background is a grove of trees, mostly Maples. 



highest artistic conceptions in this class of v/ork. All uncertainty 

 is eliminated, and our service saves you money. 



LANDSCAPE 



NURSERYMEN 



We grow a special line of orna- 

 mentals for a select landscape trade, and 

 our stock comprises many rare, tested 

 novelties, not found in a general nursery; 

 l)esides, we know the re(|uirements of this class of work. Our 

 clients will never receive small, puny, mail-size specimens of 

 shrubs such as are sent out by some nurseries, and which usually 

 die after a few weeks in the garden; nor will the\' recei\'e old, 

 overgrown, (lecre])it S])ecimens thai are almost ready for the 

 l)rusli-])ile, such as are often sent out under the s])ecious ])retense. 



of producing immediate effects. Future effects are far more im- 

 portant than present effects, for the future will last much longer. 

 The present is nearly gone, anyhow. It is an awful thing to 

 ha\'e a garden W'ith its future all in the past ! There is no odor 

 in the flowers of the vanished years. 



Our nurseries are located in a northern latitude, where the 

 stock is acclimated to the most severe conditions, so that it cannot 

 fail to do well when transplanted to your grounds. We dig with 

 steam-power, and get practically all the roots. We have the 

 largest tree-cellars in the world, and all packing operations are 

 carried on under roof. And all this unique nursery service, with 

 its splfendid organization for growing and distributing the highest 

 p"rade of ornamental trees and shrubs, sa\'es vou money. 



