HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1912 
SPRING PLANTING 
We. invite everybody interested in improving their lawns and 
gardens to visit our Nursery to see our Products growing. This 
is the most satisfactory way to purchase. We shall gladly give 
our time, attention and any information desired. Our Nursery 
consists of 300 acres of highly cultivated land and 500,000 square 
Jcet of greenhouses and storehouses, in which we are growing 
Nursery and Greenhouse Products for every place and purpose, 
the best that experience, good cultivation and our excellent 
facilities can produce, placing us in a position to fill orders of 
any size. 
ROSE PLANTS. We have several hundred thousand that will bloom this year. 
Order now from our Illustrated General Catalogue for Spring delivery. 
RHODODENDRONS. Many thousands of acclimated plants in Hardy English and 
American varieties are growung in our Nursery. 
HARDY OLD-FASHIONED PLANTS. We have thousands of rare, new and old- 
fashioned kinds. Speciai prices on quantities. 
DECIDUOUS TREES AND FLOWERING SHRUBS. Many acres of our Nursery are 
planted with severai hundred thousand Ornamental Shade Trees and Flowering 
Shrubs. It is worth while to visit us and inspect them. 
TRAINED, DWARF AND ORDINARY FRUIT TREES AND SMALL FRUITS. We 
grow these for all kinds of fruit gardens and orchards. 
HEDGE PLANTS. We grow hundreds of thousands of California Privet, Berberis 
and other Hedge plants adapted for all parts of the country. 
FIELDS OF PINES IN OUR NURSERIES. 
EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES. More than 75 acres of our Nursery a‘re 
planted with handsome specimens. Our plants are worth traveling any distance 
to see. 
BOXWOOD AND BAY TREES. We have thousands of trees in many shapes and sizes. 
PALMS, DECORATIVE PLANTS FOR CONSERVATORIES, interior and exterior 
decorations. 
HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING VINES. We have them for every place and 
purpose. Ask for special list. 
ENGLISH POT-GROWN GRAPE VINES. For greenhouse cultivation. 
BULBS AND ROOTS. Spring, Summer and Autumn flowering. ' . 
LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford Park Lawn Mixture has given satisfaction 
everywhere. 
PLANT TUBS, WINDOW BOXES AND GARDEN FURNITURE; ’ We manufacture- 
all shapes and sizes. 
OUR NEW GIANT FLOWERING MARSHMALLOW, Everybody should be interested in this Hardy New-fashioned Flower. It will grow, everywhere, and when in 
bloom is the Queen of Flowers in the garden. Blooms from the early part of July until the latter part of September. 
OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE No. 40 describes our products; is comprehensive, interesting, instructive and helpful, to intending purchasers. 
Will be mailed free upon request. 
WE PLAN AND PLANT LAWNS AND GARDENS EVERYWHERE. 
We have a number of Superintendents and Gardeners registered open for appointment. Names will be given upon application. 
The popular use of our World’s Choicest Nursery Products is due to the pleasing results they have given our patrons. 
VISITORS, take Erie Railroad to Carleton Hill, second stop on Main Line; 3 minutes’ walk to Nursery. 
BOBBINIC & ATKINS, Nurserymen, Florists and Planters, Rutherford, New Jersey 
Bobbink & Atkins 
World’s Choicest Nursery and 
Greenhouse Products 
ELECTRIC LIGHT 
IS ESSENTIAL TO THE WELL 
APPOINTED COUNTRY HOME 
It not only adds to its comfort and con¬ 
venience but gives that added feeling 
of security which no other form of illu¬ 
mination permits. 
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A touch of a switch floods the house or any portion of the ground ' 
with light—No hunting for lanterns on dark nights when you wish 
to investigate a suspicious noise in the stable or chicken house; — 
Prowlers and tramps keep away from electrically lighted houses and grounds. 
A private electric lighting plant consists of a small gasoline engine, dynamo, 
switchboard and a battery of 
“Chlortlie ^ccumuIatorH 
With this outfit—day or night—your light is always available It is 
necessary to run your gasoline engine for a few hours only to secure 
this 24 hour service. 
Send for our book “Country- Electric Lighting Plants” which gives 
full information about these plants. A postal card to the nearest Sales 
Office will bring it. 
The Electric Storage Battery Co. 
1888 Philadelphia, Pa. 1912 
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