The Garden Magazine, September, 1920 
48 , 
EVERGREENS 
Must be planted during September. From 5c. 
ea ch (four years old) up, in quantities of all 
varieties, over a million from which to select. 
Specimens up to 25 ft. high. Trees delivered 
by motor truck and planting by our own men. 
Our Evergreens are of course guaranteed. 
We Build 
Gardens Golf Courses Roads 
Rustic Houses and Pergolas 
Tennis Courts and Transplant Full Grown Trees 
A beautiful landscape album showing 
96 of America’s most famous gardens 
and landscapes free to Estate owners. 
Local Representative will gladly call 
and advise you what and where to plant. 
Tall Cedars and Old Boxwood 
a specialty. 
LEWIS & VALENTINE 
COMPANY 
47 WEST 34TH STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 
Tel. Fitz Roy 4573-4619 
ROSLYN, L. I., Tel. Roslyn 256-257 
NEWARK, N. J., Tel. Bigelow 2066 
RYE (on Post Road) N. Y., Tel. Park 838R 
ARDMORE (Philadelphia) PA., Tel. 88 
CHARLOTTE, N. C. 
DETROIT, MICH., 216 Grosse Point Boulevard 
FREE BOOK 
Flowers 
T HE opportunity is yours to make your home more enjoy- 
able and more valuable by beautifying its surroundings, 
whether you own spacious grounds or a modest city lot. 
Our Landscape Service Department will be glad to advise with 
you on appropriate plans and planting for your grounds. 
Write today for our large, illustrated fall catalog No. 196. It 
will suggest hundreds of plants and shrubs suitable for gardens 
and grounds of all sizes. 
THE WAGNER PARK NURSERIES COMPANY 
Box 95 Sydney, Ohio 
Florists Nurserymen Landscape Gardeners 
A UNIQUE TREE SAVING EX- 
PERIMENT IN THE SOUTH 
CXCESSIVE grading of the park strips in 
•L-* one section of the beautiful suburb of Myers 
Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, was obviously 
endangering the lives of several large Willow 
Oaks since these began to show dead wood, and 
sparse foliage, poor in color. The roots in many 
cases were exposed, the top soil being entirely 
removed, and what was even worse for this tree, 
the water flowed away from them owing to their 
elevated position. 
To preserve these examples of one of the finest 
The cement wall with side wings 
looked very much like a big box be- 
fore it was filled in with the earth 
shade and street trees in the South, the remedy 
shown in the photographs was adopted for each 
tree. A strong cement wall battered on the 
inside, with footings extending into the ground i 
inside of the curb, was built up above the curb; ; 
wing walls of the same construction were ex- I 
tended into the parking strips far enough from ] 
the base of the tree to avoid cutting any roots 
more than \\" in diameter. Roots under this size s 
were pruned to induce the formation of a greater 
number of small feeding roots. 
The walls were built up to allow of a fall from jj 
the top of the wall to the surface of the ground at I 
The earth used to fill the space thus 
boxed up with cement was a careful 
mixture and well worked into the subsoil 
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