HOUSE AND GARDEN 
144 
September, 1911 
Uhe MOVING and PLANTING of LARGE EVERGREENS 
A UGUST AND SEPTEMBER are the best months for doing this work. But to insure successful 
results and the life and growth of your valuable trees, they should be entrusted only to skilful 
and experienced hands. v 
We have been doing large landscape work for years. Our success and experience are measured by the 
many fine estates we have designed and planted. 
, We have skilled landscape architects to work with you in planning your place, and the most 
efficient mechanical equipment obtainable; while our nurseries (planted for more than half a 
century) enable us to furnish.choice trees of any size and species, either for large 
plantings or to match trees already in place. 
Let us tell you the story of the interesting planting below—one of many _ - 
1 carried out successfully by us during recent years. 
Inquire for Catalogue D 
THE STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS COMPANY 
(Established 1848) 
New Canaan, Conn. 
(■Incorporated 1903) * . 
Do Not Go Through Another Summer 
Without Trees and Shrubs 
Suffering from the heat because of a lack of pleasant shade and comforting 
shrubbery isn't necessary. The trees and shrubs are ready for you — after years 
of patient growing. It is your fault if they are not about your home, for you 
could have them -placed there. Life is too short for one to set out a twig, 
after his .home is built, and wait for it. to -become, a-tree—Nature works too 
slowly for that. But you can secure trees and shrubs that are large enough 
to give you a landscape without waiting. 
The Growing of Trees is an Art —Transplanting Them is a SCIENCE 
Swain Nelson & Sons Co, engaged in raising and transplanting trees and 
shrubs, have been in business for a long time. They understand the art of 
growing things, and they transplant scientifically. All of their stock is carefully 
grown. Attention is paid to root development, to shape and to vigor. The 
soil in which the plants are started is important. The protection the young 
plants receive is material. Tha,rnanner in which they are transplanted, from 
time to time, so they -will adapt themselves to changed conditions, is VITAL. 
All these things have been properly looked after in Nelson’s Glenview Nurseries. 
LANDSCAPES WITHOUT WAITING REQUIRE SPECIAL 
- FACILITIES AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE 
Something more, is involved than digging a hole and setting a plant. Swain 
N_elson & Sons Co,’s experts visit your premises if d.esired, determine the size 
and character of trees and shrubs best adapted^ to the place, select the proper 
location for them- remove them from their gfeat nurseries and place them 
where they will shelter you and add beauty and value to the home. Fine, 
large specimens are always chosen. A business reputation stands back of every 
transaction, and the company cannot afford to make a failure. Nothing is 
undertaken that cannot, he successfully, carried out. qnd no contract is, too 
large for execution. Handson’ie Book, ’“Landscape Without Waiting,’’ explain¬ 
ing many points in landscaping and tree planting, will be seht free on applica¬ 
tion to any home owner within 500 miles-.of Chicago: To-others fifty cents, 
which will be tebated on first order. 
Write us t#day for the book. 
SWAIN NELSON & SONS CO. 
<®l Marquette'Bldg., Chicago, III. - 
FARR’S PEONIESjf IRISES, AND HARDY 1 
PLANT SPECIALTIES. 
If-the ‘ iridescenl beauty of the 
Iris makes you- a-elreamer of far- - 
away things, that of the Peony _ 
awakens you to the joy of life and 
the glory of June. 
Everybody -loves- the Peony—only 
a few really know how beautiful are 
the modern ones, “The Aristocrats 
of the Hardy Garden.” For twelve 
Junes I have lived with my Peonies, , 
each blooming season filling me 
with a new wonder and arlmiration 
,for their glor.iq.tts flowers.. AJ1 the 
Junes, of a lifetime are-too short to 
intimately know them all. - ? 
-Nowhere in The world- is,there 
such another collection of Peonies. 
So'- large that it -includes -almost - 
every'distinct variety of merit from 
the. oldest to the newest; so small 
that there is no room for the com¬ 
monplace— ' T t - - ’ 
My New Book ol Peonies, Irises and Hardy Plant Specialties 
is unique, in that the Peony..list,,has been entirely written to conform" to 
official descriptions of the American Peony Society, the ‘ notes_ being prepared - 
in the field while the plants were in bloom, and the colors were accurately _de- „ 
termined by the Society’s official color chartf In short it tells you in con¬ 
densed form all that is known abo.ut Peonies, and will guide the beginner jtutte 1 
selection of a few varieties'for-a' sftiall ""garden, as well as the'connoisseur in : 
filling out his large collection. ' ' ' Vi:.?-. 
This book is free on rfequest from all interested in a hardy garden, though 
too expensive for promiscuous distribution. S.end for the book now; fpr gon I 
should plant early", so that the "roots will rndke a fall" growth, thus gaining 
a year’s time and producing blooms next June. .., - 
I know every inch of the .amateur’s Toad and can ,be of practical • help 
to you if you write me freely about your gardening troubles,-for the'famous ; 
CoHertien- of plants comprising Wyomissing Nurseries, are. but the outgrowth . 
iof a tiny “Boy’s Garden” in the AVest—a Bobby developed into a Business. 
BERTRAND H. FARR, WYOMISSING NURSERIES, ^eaping^ gj; 
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