Specimen Trees for Avenue Planting 
TN growing trees for this purpose, the Amawalk Nursery 
has introduced a decidedly new feature. All landscape 
architects, park commissioners and estate owners know the 
difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of perfectly matched 
specimen trees for planting along avenues and drives. 
At Amawalk it is not necessary to search through several 
nursery blocks to select trees that you think will be of the 
same size. Here they have already been planted under ideal 
conditions for the express purpose of later bordering them 
along some magnificent avenue. They are given ample room 
on all sides, and are pruned sufficiently to make them de- 
velop evenly. We are now able to offer them in much larger 
sizes than are usually obtainable in nurseries. The prospect- 
ive buyer can thus obtain trees all of an equal age and size. 
At the same time he can see growing at Amawalk the actual 
effect he wishes to produce. 
Owing to the large ground area required and the consequent 
additional cultivation, this method is naturally much more 
expensive than growing trees in the conventional nursery 
blocks, but from the favor it has found with our customers we 
feel satisfied that we have solved a difficult problem in the 
right way. 
The following photographs taken at the Nursery will give 
those who are unable to visit the Nursery some idea of the 
charm and dignity of our Avenues of Matched Specimens. 
