March, 1916 
7 
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What We Can Do for 
Your Home Grounds 
/ With practical suggestions, and complete 
plans if desired, we are ready to serve you care¬ 
fully, efficiently, promptly— 
—In the laying out of a small garden. 
—Rearranging the grounds about the home you 
now occupy. 
—Planning and planting about the home which 
you intend to build this year. 
—Landscaping the large estate, including grad¬ 
ing, road building, and complete planting for 
immediate results. 
For these varied purposes we have superb 
specimen Shade Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, 
Roses, Perennials, and will select only those 
that fit the needs of your grounds. 
Let us send you our catalogue 
This new edition tells more about what we can do 
for your home grounds, shows picturesque plantings, 
and gives suggestions for making your place a home 
of distinction. 
G. E. M. STUMPP 
761 Fifth Avenue, Department H 
New York City 
/ 
World’s Foremost Opinion 
on Oriental Rugs 
“Dear Major:— 
“I want to offer my sincere thanks for the courtesy extended 
me in showing me your stock of rugs last week. I was really 
surprised at the splendid lot of superb pieces of splendid floor 
coverings and the later antique pieces which you have accumulated, 
and perhaps the most surprising feature about it is that you 
should have gotten such a lot of rugs together that had not been 
chemically treated, or as is commonly termed ‘chemically washed.’ 
That is the curse of the rug business today. If one could obtain 
rugs as they were woven and permit them to be worn down by 
friction and use, as was done in the old days, instead of having 
them subjected to a chemical bath, it would be very much more 
satisfactory to the purchasers of rugs in the end. I congratulate 
you on the number of fine pieces you have assembled, which are 
absolutely natural and untampered with. 
“In the purchase of rugs it is of the greatest consideration to 
obtain them in their natural condition, and I do not think there 
are as many high-class rugs in the hands of any rug establishment 
in America as you have in the lot shown me. 
“Tendering my thanks for your courtesy, I remain 
“Very sincerely yours, 
“James F. Ballard, 500 North Second Street, Saint Louis” 
As inferred by Mr. Ballard, treated rugs are in the 
vast majority—a fact that is not disclosed by the ordinary 
dealer in rugs. 
It is my hobby and my pleasure to select rugs of true 
antique value and ship same for selection to people who 
sincerely want real values. 
Will send my brochure on request. Tells about rug 
values and rug selling methods. If you will state types 
of rugs you would like to see, much time can be saved. I 
pay express both ways. 
Major L. B. Lawlon, U. S. A., Retired 3 Leitch Avenue, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
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