OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY IN BUSINESS 
Ornamental Department. 
In the Nursery. 
“THIS DEPARTMENT of our institution is very extensive, comprising many 
acres, where shade trees, evergreens, and thousands of shrubs are 
cultivated in large blocks. People who have never seen a large nursery 
little realize the extent of the industry, the amount of experienced labor 
employed the cultivation practiced, or the amount of capital necessarily 
invested to keep the stock up to the standard of excellence maintained by 
us. This department is annually growing; each year we add to our stock 
new varieties of plants that have been carefully tested for their ornamen- 
tal merits and hardiness by us, it being our plan to have everything of 
ornamental value in stock, and to offer nothing but that which has been 
carefully tested and proved. ' 
Descriptive Arrangement. 
The goods described in the Ornamental Department of this Catalogue 
is divided into classes, such as Deciduous Trees, Conifers, etc., all plants 
being arranged alphabetically according to their botanical names. This may 
seem too technical to some, but the other arrangements have proved un- 
satisfactory. Many of the trees and shrubs listed have no well-known 
