(garden Planning 
and Planting 
Service 
O UR Planting Department is 
manned by competent men who 
are ready at all times to make 
suggestions and plans, or to carry out 
the ideas of garden and estate owners. 
Whether it be the laying out of exten¬ 
sive grounds, or simply a memorial 
planting, we can render prompt and 
efficient service. 
Our Landscape Division enables us 
to solve difficult or special garden prob¬ 
lems, as every member of the staff is 
a specialist in his particular field. 
If you live in our immediate vicinity, 
we offer a trained consultation service 
without charge or obligation. We invite 
your correspondence when we can more 
fully advise you of this service. No 
charge for consultation. We solicit cor¬ 
respondence. 
The upper picture shows a planting by 
Bobbink & Atkins on the estate of Miss 
E. Frances Hooper, White Plains, N. Y. 
This photo was taken only one year after 
the job was completed. The foundation 
planting consists of Rhododendrons, An- 
dromedas, Azaleas, Taxus in variety, 
accented by tall Hemlocks, White-flower¬ 
ing Dogwood, and flowering Cherries. A 
clump of Spirsea Vanhoultei is at the left. 
The large Pin Oak at the right was trans¬ 
planted from our Nurseries at Clifton,N. J. 
This garden was prize-winner in the 1936 
Herald-Tribune Garden Competition. 
The second view is a typical entrance 
and foundation planting often installed 
by our men. It was designed for a house 
built of buff brick, and made a very satis¬ 
factory showing. Of course, entrance and 
foundation plantings should be designed 
to harmonize with the building whose 
lines they are intended to soften and blend 
with the grounds. If our friends who con¬ 
template plantings will send a photo or 
diagram of the house, we will make a plan 
appropriate to the architecture. The 
plants used in the picture are: 
No. 1. Chamascyparis pisifera plumosa 
(Retinospora) 
2. Chamascyparis pisifera plumosa aurea 
3. Chamsecyparis pisifera squarrosa Veitchi 
4. Tsuga canadensis (Hemlock) 
5. Chamsecyparis pisifera plumosa aurea 
6. Juniperus chinensis Pfitzeriana 
7. Taxus cuspidata capitata (Upright form) 
(7 plants at each side of the entrance, 
14 plants in all.) 
The third photo shows a naturalistic 
planting in which appear Rhododen¬ 
drons, Mountain Laurel, Lily-of-the- 
Valley Shrubs. Hardy Azaleas, Berberis 
ChenauUi, Ilex, Betula nigra and B. alba, 
Malus floribunda and White- and Red- 
flowering Dogwood. 
In the fourth picture you will see a 
water-planting with a background of 
Canadian Hemlock and Mountain Pine, 
groups of Rhododendrons and White- and 
Red-flowering Dogwood. Bordering the 
pool are plantings of Leucothoe Catesbsei, 
evergreen shrubs of the Heath family, 
Ilex glabra , most fruitful of Hollies, and 
various water-plants in the pool. 
