Qape Qod landscapes 
When Gosnold in 1607 landed in what is now Falmouth, he 
is said to have described it in these words: 
“It is replenised with fair fields, and in them fragrant 
flowers; also meadows, and hedged in with stately groves; 
being furnished also with pleasant brooks and beautified with 
two main rivers that (as we judge) may haply become good 
harbors.” 
Most of that natural beauty of the days of the early settlers 
remains unspoiled today. The fragrant Bayberry and the fruit¬ 
ful Beach Plum still thrive at the edge of the beachgrass. 
Picturesque pines frame vistas of marshes, dunes and sea. 
Clear inland ponds reflect oak and cedar, maple and alder. 
The hand of man has added the elm-arched lanes and high¬ 
ways, many stately Colonial homes, and numberless delight¬ 
ful Cape Cod cottages, buttressed with lilacs, gay with holly¬ 
hocks and climbing roses. And in later years have come many 
hundreds of summer residents to share the Peace of Old Cape 
Cod. 
Cape Cod and the South Shore are blessed with a year- 
round mildness of climate favorable to a wider range of hardy 
plants than can be found in any other section of New England. 
There’s a pride of ownership here, too, that leads each one who 
lives here to have his own bit of well kept shaded lawn, his 
own garden spot, be it large or small. 
For fifty years it has been our pleasant business to supply a 
fair share of the materials, the labor, and the experienced skill 
required in the improvement of hundreds of home grounds on 
and near Cape Cod. In the hope that we may help you, this 
rather different type of catalogue is placed in your hands. 
Whatever your horticultural needs, we shall be glad to fill 
them for you. 
