2 LANDSCAPE SERVICE • Edward Gillett, Southwick, Mass. 
Here is presented a splendid opportunity for 
beautifying a woodland path. A few ferns, some 
broad-leaved evergreens, and a careful cleaning 
will work a complete transformation. 
A rustic bridge similar to this can be erected by 
our bervice Department on any estate. It may 
serve as a passage-way over a stream, or over a 
dry ravine. 
Necessity for a Service Organization 
During the past two years there has come to me a constantly increasing volume 
of requests for advice regarding tlie culture of native plants, for suggestions as to 
wliat kinds would be suitable for various locations and various purposes, for tlie 
making of planting plans and for professional landscape service, frequently involving 
the development of entire estates. Hitherto I have responded jx'rsonally to these 
appeals to the best of my ability, but they are now pouring in at such a rate, and 
are so insistent, that I myself can no longer give them the attention they should 
receive, without neglecting my very imj^ortant work as a grower and distributor. 
I have therefore j^erfected a Service Organization which is fully equipped to 
plan and carry out any form of Naturalistic planting, and to give expert advice on 
any subject connected therewith. 
Landscape Construction 
This department of the organization is conducted by a well-known firm of Land¬ 
scape Architects, specializing along Naturalistic lines. Their work includes the 
making of plans, laying out and superintending plantings, road and path con¬ 
struction, grading, masonry, designing and building of private bridges, ornamental 
shelters, rock work, pools, etc.-—in short, the tasteful development of a place, 
either in part or as a whole. 
Scientific Tree Service 
This important work is given attention by expert Landscape Foresters, who 
have treated successfully both individual trees and woodlands on many of the 
finest estates in the East. The system applies the methods now approved by govern¬ 
ment and state arborists and includes proper pruning, spraying, feeding and cavity 
treatment, together with intelligent deforestation, where desirable, and installing 
new tree plantings, thus adding to the beauty and enjoyment of the property. 
