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Little Trees 
At Little Prices 
For Every Purpose 
FROM 
lUttle ®ree Jfarms: 
BIRTHPLACE OF LITTLE TREES THAT LIVE 
Why you should buy trees and shrubs 
this year and why you should 
buy them early! 
Before the war Europe supplied a large portion of 
the nursery stock used in America. That source of 
supply is now cut off. American growers have curtailed 
production during the past two years. Consequently 
there is bound to be a scarcity of planting material 
and prices will be correspondingly high. 
Be Forehanded—Save Money 
Buy little trees now,—plant them out for borders 
and edging for your vegetable garden, also in rows 
like vegetables and flowers. Employ the Little Tree 
Garden idea and set the trees out without additional 
labor; they will require practically no care; they will 
add beauty and charm to your vegetable plot, and they 
will be increasing in size and value all the time. 
It’s real economy and pleasure. 
With a Little Tree Garden on your land 
it is always planting season with you 
How many times while walking about your estate 
have you thought “A little blue spruce would ‘brighten 
up’ this corner” or “A few shade trees right here would 
be just the place to swing a hammock this hot day,” 
or “I wish that objectionable view on my neighbor’s 
property was screened from sight,” or “A mass plant¬ 
ing of Japanese Barberry with its bright red berries 
would be cheerful in the fall and early winter,” or “A 
privet hedge is just what I need on the front of my 
property,” etc.? With a Little Tree Garden you can 
carry out these small plantings with your own stock 
when the spirit moves. 
Sample Bargain Combination for Little Tree Garden 
52 PLANTS FOR $18.00 
This combination is comprised of eleven very desirable 
species for American planting—all American-born and Amer¬ 
ican-grown. Below are listed the varieties, sizes and quanti¬ 
ties of each that make up the combination. 
5 Silver (Concolor) Fir . 
.. . DA 
to 
2 
feet 
tall 
2 Juniper; Red Cedar . 
5 White Spruce . 
... 2 
to 
3 
feet 
tall 
. .. 1 
to 
IV, 
feet 
tall 
5 Blue (Colorado) Spruce . 
... 1 
to 
DA 
feet 
tall 
5 Red (Norway) Pine . 
... 1 
to 
l l A 
feet 
tall 
5 Douglas Spruce (Fir) . 
... 1 
to 
DA 
feet 
tall 
5 Arborvitae (White Cedar).... 
... 1 
to 
d/ 2 
feet 
tall 
5 Sugar (Rock) Maple . 
... 4 
to 
6 
feet 
tall 
5 Red Oak . 
...2 
to 
3 
feet 
tall 
5 Japanese Barberry . 
... 1 
to 
DA; 
feet 
tall 
5 Regel’s Privet . 
... 2 
to 
3 
feet 
tall 
52 Plants for only $18.00 
This high quality stock has been twice transplanted and root- 
pruned. These prices include packing and delivery to the trans¬ 
portation company at Framingham, Mass. 
2 of these combinations 105 plants-for $ 34.00 
10 of these combinations-525 plants for 125.00 
Send for catalog today. Illustrative and instructive, listing twenty 
million trees for ornament, shade and forest planting. 
Write for specific information. 
Give your conditions and object of planting. We will advise 
the proper planting materials and how to have complete success. 
Hittle 2Trce JfnrmS (Jgear Boston) 
NURSERIES OF 
American Forestry Company 
Division Kl, 15 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 
Spanish Wall Furniture of the 18th Century 
( Continued, from pag; 35) 
vigor of proportion, both in mass 
and in point of such details as 
moldings and the like, many a 
piece might appear thick, stodgy 
or even clumsy. As it is, the ef¬ 
fusive and mobile quality of 
Spanish contour saves what Eng¬ 
lish restraint and reserve would 
kill. It is this sense of vigorous 
movement in a vigorous body that 
gives not a little of the agreeable 
impression produced by Spanish 
"Queen Anne” pieces and often 
adds appreciably to their adapta¬ 
bility in a variety of environ¬ 
ments. 
The red lacquer bureau book¬ 
case, of approximately the same 
date as the blue lacquer bureau 
bookcase or cabinet, is another 
admirable example of the Spanish 
taste for gorgeous color and bold, 
rotund moldings. In addition to 
the moldings surrounding the 
doors, the treatment of the top is 
sufficient evidence of the sway of Ba- craftsmen and utilized as models so that 
roque influence at the beginning of the it is practically immaterial whether such 
18th Century. The exterior color and individual pieces were Spanish by birth 
the gold decoration in Chinese designs or by adoption—in any event, they indi- 
are like what may be seen on English cate a current Spanish type. The drop- 
pieces of the same period, but the strong front cabinet or secretary on a stand 
local Spanish touch, apart from the with spiral turned legs is a case in point, 
moldings surrounding the edges of the Certain peculiarities of structural work- 
doors and certain peculiarities of con- manship seem to indicate an English 
struction, consists in the inner embel- origin; at the same time, a few touches 
lishment of the upper or cupboard part seem to point to the hand of an Iberian 
where the inner faces of the doors and artisan. At any rate, we know that it 
of the sides, back and top are fully dec- was in Spain from a very early date, 
orated with gilding and with rich poly-'possibly the date of its manufacture. It 
chrome painted devices. The national thus typifies a current furniture mode, 
love of complete ornamentation could not Incidentally, its front presents a remark- 
have a better exemplification than this ably fine example of “oyster shell” veneer 
bit of colorful decoration that was along with inlay in a light-colored wood 
wholly hidden from view when the doors while its whole design evidences close 
were closed, as they probably were most relationship with Baroque architectural 
of the time. The whole piece eloquently principles. 
Low walnut veneer chest of drawers. 
Made about 1705. Courtesy of Traver 
testifies to the skill of Spanish cabinet 
makers. 
Influence of Importations 
Importation doubtless brought many 
18th 
Another exotic or semi-exotic piece, 
of virtually the same date, is the large 
painted press or cupboard on a stand, 
the stand, by the bye, being a restora¬ 
tion. It came from the north of Spain 
a piece of furniture to Spanish 18th but there are points in its make-up that 
Century households, but in this connec- savor of a Dutch provenance, although 
tion two facts are to be kept clearly in its great size argues against such migra- 
mind. In the first place, they were tion at a time when transportation fa- 
promptly assimilated and became incor- cilities were not of the best. It is more 
porated as integral parts of the general probably the work of Dutch artisans 
decorative environment and were, there 
fore, quite as representative of the Span 
domiciled in Spain. Whatever may be 
the cupboard’s individual past history. 
ish mobiliary fashions of the day as we may consider it in the category of 
though they had actually been fabricated Spanish wall furniture during the Ba- 
on Spanish soil. Consequently we are roque ascendency in contour design, 
justified in regarding them as Spanish. The ground color is a dark green blue 
In the second place, they were immedi- and the flowers, birds and fruit in the 
ately seized upon by native Spanish panels are in full colors. The scalloped 
edges of the oval panels on the 
doors indicate the Spanish 
penchant for that sort of shap¬ 
ing. It is an exceedingly im¬ 
pressive piece capable of con¬ 
tributing materially to the dec¬ 
orative value of any environ¬ 
ment. 
The little slant top secretary 
with straight tapered legs beau¬ 
tifully veneered with rosewood 
or coco-bolo, and the low chest 
of drawers, veneered with wal¬ 
nut and banded with narrow 
inlay, are unquestionably of 
native Spanish workmanship 
and represent a less conspicu¬ 
ous but not less elegant phase 
of mobiliary taste during this 
same period of Baroque ascend¬ 
ency. Both pieces were made 
within thirty years of each 
other. Very nearly contempo¬ 
rary with them, and strongly in¬ 
dicative of Baroque inspiration, 
is the walnut papelera with 
black spiral-turned columns and 
black moldings surrounding lit- 
Small, slant-top secretary, of rose- tie panels of mottled red and 
wood or coco-bolo veneer. C. 1680. black shell inlay, a piece show- 
Traver (Continued on page 80) 
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