Important Hints in Planting and Cultivating. 



As SOON as the nursery stock is unpacked a trench should be dug and the roots set 

 in, covering them with moist earth, until they can be planted. If this cannot be 

 done they should remain in the packing material and be kept moist until the 

 ground is ready for them. Many failures result from an utter disregard of this important 

 rule Another safe-guard is the thorough preparation of the soil for planting. In a shrub 

 border or where beds are to be planted with shrubs they should have the soil thoroughly 

 spaded up and well-rotted manure well mixed with the soil. 



Success cannot be hoped for where grass and baked earth is allowed to surround the 

 trees or shrubs after planted, An occasional stirring of the top soil will prevent a newly 

 planted tree or shrub from dying even if water is not freely given. In our nursery thous- 

 ands of young trees are kept alive by stirring the soil with cultivators during the dry 

 season. The value of this practice can be especially recommended in private grounds and 

 gardens by keeping the ground open by hoeing or working around the plants. 



Holes for trees and shiubs should be large enough at all times to allow the roots to 

 be spread out so as to stand in the same position as when growing in the nursery, so that 

 fresh earth may come in contact with all the roots and in filling in the earth around the 

 roots it should invariably be made firm so that there will be no air spaces in the soil. 

 Trees and .shrubs should be planted a little deeper than in the nursery. Losses are often 

 prevented by heavy mulching or covering with manure which prevents rapid evaporation 

 from the soil. 



An important requirement which is too often neglected, is the close pruning of trees 

 and shrubs. Trees which are difficult to transplant can be saved by being cut almost to a 

 bare pole. While not so ornamental, they amply repay in their subsequent growth. 

 Hybrid Roses should be reduced to four or five buds. A large per cent of the loss in rose 

 planting is due to the failure to prune closely. 



In planting Herbaceous Perennials it is a good plan to mulch the ground thoroughly 

 after planting. If this is not done it is important to keep the ground .stirred well to prevent 

 it from baking and drying out. 



LANDSCAPE WORK. 



We are often called upon to give advice as to the selection of proper trees and plants 

 for the planting of grounds and for planting plans. We take great pleasure in giving the 

 full benefit of our experience in the way of advice to all who desire it, without charge. If 

 a definite working plan is desired we will send a thoroughly competent landscape gardener 

 to examine and make a planting plan, and estimate of quantities and cost of stock required ; 

 we will also take charge of the planting of the same if desired. This is the cheapest way 

 for anyone having grounds to ,be ornamented. You not only get the full benefit of the 

 practical knowledge of the nursureyman as to what to plant but in the artistic arrangement 

 of the whole planting. 



The variety of our stock enables us to choose the most desirable for a given place. 

 Our long experience in supplying and planting also enables us to avoid errors in this work 

 such as the use of plants not hardy in a given location. We invite corre.spondence. We 

 can assure all who contemplate planting small or large grounds that the total cost of the 

 sensible planting is far less than by the common way of buying their stock through agents 

 as we employ no agents, therefore we make especially low prices to parties requiring our 

 services. 



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