0I(NAIV[EI1ITAL DEPAI^TfflEHT. 
While most people appreciate well arranged and well kept grounds, large or small, 
many fail to realize that they can have equally fine grounds. These have had a few 
shrubs or roses growing in thick turf, with no attention given to pruning or cultivating. 
Under such circumstances, good results cannot be expected. 
Aside from the pleasure of having fine trees, shrubs, vines and flowers in the grounds 
surrounding a home, few realize how much these add to the commercial value of a 
place. A purchaser having to decide between a house with bare and unkempt grounds, 
and one surrounded by fine ornamentals, invariably chooses the latter at a marked ad- 
vance in price, because he sees that he will at once enjoy what it would otherwise take 
some years to secure. Sagacious men are led by a knowledge of these facts to plant 
fine trees and shrubs about vacant lots they are intending to put upon the market. Lots 
thus planted readily secure purchasers at good prices, when bare grounds go begging for 
buyers. 
HOW TO PLANT. 
Do not make the mistake of planting at random, all over your grounds. A fine, well- 
cut lawn is one of the handsomest features of a place. Trees may be planted along a 
lane or avenue leading to the house, or dotted about the lawn on lines radiating from 
the house. This will secure light and air to, and good views from the house. 
Upright shrubs and roses should be planted in beds, each class by itself, about the 
borders of the ground. These beds should be well cultivated and the plants annually 
pruned. When the growth of the plants has made them very thick, some should 
be taken out. It will not do to plant so little that years must elapse before a fine 
effect will be produced. A surplus should be planted at first, and this gradually be 
taken out. Vines may be planted near to and allowed to climb upon and about the 
house, or they may be trained on posts, arbors or stakes, placed in suitable locations on 
the lawn. 
WHAT TO PLANT. 
A detailed list of desirable ornamental trees and shrubs, would be a little less than a 
recapitulation of our entire list, but as few have room for all, we here present a list of 
the most desirable in each class, and refer the reader to the proper places in the cata- 
logue for descriptions of them. 
Flowering Trees.— May.— While Dogwood, Magnolias in variety, Judas Tree, 
Horse Chestnuts, Double flowering Cherry. June— White Frince, Laburnum, Moun- 
tain Ash, Thorns in variety, Catalpa, SyringKfolia, Lindens in variety, Virgilea Leutea. 
July — American Sweet Chestnut. 
Trees Valued for their Form and Foliage.— Cut-leaved Weeping Birch, 
Purple-leaved Birch, Kilmarnock Willow, Weeping Mountain Ash, Oak-leaved Moun- 
tain Ash, European Weeping Ash, Camperdown Weeping Elm, Purple-leaved Elm, 
European Linden, White-leaved Weeping Linden, Salisburea, Norway Maple, Wiers' 
Cut-leaved Maple, Imperial Cut-leaved Alder, Purple-leaved Beech, Fern-leavcd Beech. 
