Landscape Gardening. 
Drawing plans of new estates or remodeling older grounds is not 
always needed, but it is a department in our business which is every 
year increasing. 
A rouyh draft, with estimate, can usually be furnished without 
expense, and nK)re complete and detailed plans can then be made, 
showing the number, name and position of each plant, and the cost 
of the same. We furnish skille(l workmen to do the planting;, and 
also personally lav out the walks and roads, and liuild the same of 
any material re<|uirefl to make a i tnuplete and satisfactory finish. 
Is it econutny to trust the laying out and plaiUiii-; to an ordinar3' 
itinerant j;ankMKr, any more than to }<ive to a journeymau car])enter 
the drauL^htin^ of a costly house ? Money would be savt-d in both 
cases by employinj^ the most skilled artists ol)tainal)le. Be^in ri^ht. 
Have a map made showing' the location and i^round plan of Uie 
house, the e.vact position of each tree and shrub now growinj< there, 
and the proposed changes and improvements, roads, walks, trees, 
groups of shrubs, hedges and flowers. Such a plan can be carefully 
examined, and a fairly correct idea can be formed of the appearance 
of the grounds wht-u completed. Should the place be offered for sale, 
it is the outside of the home that would fasten the eye of tiie ]n'ospec- 
tive buyer. A good lawn and beautiful shrubbery, tastefully arranged, 
enhances values in the entire neighborhood. Trees and shrubs un- 
desirable, or ill-litlefl to the soil and location, a competent horticul- 
turist would reject, and give the reason why; saving many costly 
mistakes and discouraging delays. 
With the close of the present >ear, i8g8, our business 
will have been carried on for half a century with 
reasonable success. It nuist have been kept abreast of 
the times. Our credit has not suffered by reconimend- 
iiij^ novelties of no real merit, mistakes which some 
might attempt to repair or forget by adding new ones. 
A constant study to find new trees, roses arid plants 
which are superior in essential points, and to push 
them to the frotU , ought to command respect and bring 
confidence. Selling a few front lots has not diminished 
our business, but we have added to our grounds, by 
purchase, land of better quality and nearer the center. 
Our business must be of benefit to the city and New 
England, so far as we supply their horticultural demands, and we hope for 
continued and unexpected orders, both from old and new customers. 
