KaWana. y o r t h Carolina, and "Boston. Massachusetts 
LANDSCAPE DESIGN 
AND PLANTING 
The successful carrying out of any landscape improvement depends to so 
great an extent upon the knowledge, skill and good taste of the one to whom this 
work is intrusted, that it is supremely important to start right, no matter whether 
the work be large or small. 
By the employment of a trained landscape arthiiecl expensive experiments 
may be avoided, and successful results insured. This applies to questions both of 
design and of practical planting. 
With a special force organized for this purpose, we take charge of the proper 
laying out and planting of large and small grounds, extensive estates, parks, ceme- 
teries, and other public or private landscape improvements. Particular attention 
is given to the use of hardy American plants, which are unquestionably the basis of 
all the best permanent plantings in this country and particularly where naturalistic 
effects are desired. If this fact is ignored, the most finished and lasting results 
cannot be secured. Even in formal gardens where exotics have in the past been 
used almost exclusively, there are wonderful possibilities, as yet barely realized, for 
the employment of many native plants, and especially our magnificent Rhododen- 
drons, Kalmias and other broad-leaved evergreens. These plants are not only 
absolutely hardy and free from foreign diseases and pests, but show splendid sum- 
mer and w inter effects that can be produced in no other way. There are, in fact, 
no foreign plants which can possibly take their place. 
We do not, however, by any means confine ourselves to the use of Native 
Plants only, but where advisable introduce the best exotics to produce the desired 
results for any given problem. 
We are prepared to make professional visits for consultation and advice, to 
make surveys, plans and designs, and to undertake the entire construction, plant- 
ing and carrying out of landscape work of all descriptions. 
Terms and information given to those interested. 
HARLAN P. KKLSEY, Landscape Architect 
Beacon KuilJing, BOSTON, MASS. 
irr (5.978 fen hii;li,l ;iiid Grandin.>lh,-r (5,000 (ccl liieh ) Mountains, North Carolina. View (rc 
near Hitshlands Nursery. From a pholoi^raph h) L. E. Jewell. 
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