McKay Nursery Company 
The HOME BEAUTIFUL 
HOME OWNERSHIP 
The love of home is universal—a popular theme 
in song and story down through the ages. There 
is no more worthy ambition than the ambition to 
own one’s home and to make home life happier, 
more wholesome, more enjoyable by the beautifi¬ 
cation of the home grounds. Home is where we 
spend our happiest hours. Hence the marked trend 
in American life of making homes more beautiful 
both inside and out—-of developing homes that 
will live everlastingly in the lives of those reared 
in their environs. 
PRIDE 
Each year during the past decade has exper¬ 
ienced an increasing consciousness of the import¬ 
ance of proper planting on the part of American 
home owners. Unquestionably the decade ahead 
will register still greater strides in the same direc¬ 
tion. Today the home grounds receive justified 
consideration comparable with that given to the 
interior of the dwelling. Our friends see our living 
room. Everybody sees our home grounds. Genuine 
pride in home ownership, therefore, is scarcely 
possible without a home environment that has 
been properly, attractively planted. 
SOCIAL VALUE 
Man is judged very often by the 
clothes he wears. The home, whose 
innermost recesses are not observable by 
the public generally, makes its impres- 
sion by the clothes it wears, too, by its 
exterior appearance, in a large measure 
by its planting. When one takes a 
Sunday drive, invariably attention is aU 
tracted, as one drives about, to the home 
whose grounds reflect the owner’s 
thoughtfulness and care. Whether a 
home is located in the city or in the 
country, whether it is a mansion or a 
modest dwelling, few things about that 
home can enhance its social value to the 
owner like a well arranged planting of 
well selected nursery stock in thriving 
condition. 
On these pages and throughout this 
catalog you will find photographs of 
homes which are planted with hardy 
northern grown nursery stock—stock 
that grew, and was developed to add 
new beauty to these homes and to make 
these pictures possible. Are your home 
grounds as beautiful as you would like 
to have them? Perhaps you would like 
to have us work with you helpfully in 
planning for the planting of a part or 
all of your property, and in providing 
the stock necessary for the execution 
of the plan prepared. You are assured 
that any such service you may call upon 
us to render will be reliable, efficient 
and reasonable in cost. 
Notice in these photographs that in 
each instance the planting materials 
were arranged so as to enhance the 
beauty of the property most effectively 
and thus add to its charm and artistic 
appearance. 
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t21 MAR 281935 
