NOVELTY AND GENERAL CATALOG 
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Wild or Natural Gardens 
These are easiest made and easiest kept of all the gardens, especially where the 
grounds are naturally endowed by nature for that purpose. 
All there is needed is to plant promiscuously hardy and other plants which are more 
or less related or akin to those naturally found there. In other words, it is simply adding 
to the natural existing beauty without any restraint and not building any artifice in 
any way. 
Hedges 
Hedges are clearly preferable to walls, wire or any other fences for the delineation of 
property as well as protection against trespassing. This can be accomplished either by a 
single line of one variety of plants, or by adding in or making an irregular planting of 
wavy border which takes away the stiffness of the single row. 
Great many varieties of plants can be used advantageously for this purpose, acord- 
ing to the wishes of the owner; that is, whether a light hedge or a high hedge is desired, 
and whether the hedge at the same time is wanted to furnish a screen or a windbreak or 
to hide any unsightly or objectionable view on the adjacent grounds. It is not only more 
beautiful than the ordinary wall or fence, but it is also cheaper to plant and keep in con¬ 
dition than the building of fences and keeping them in repair. 
Conservatories or Greenhouses 
Another source of enjoyment and beauty is the erection of glass structures which 
might also serve as a sun parlor in the winter time. In these glass structures not only 
plants and flowers can be raised, but also early vegetables and plants started early to be 
ready for planting when the spring and summer season opens. 
Plans for such buildings and specifications for same should always be provided by a 
practical landscape architect, so that it would be made more useful and profitable and 
well-suited for the class of plants or stock that is expected to be grown there. 
Vegetable and Fruit Gardens 
This is a useful adjunct to the ornamental garden, and one that should not be neglected 
or lost sight of, as through this means the owner is not only well-provided with beautiful 
flowers and plants, but with a useful and healthful supply of fresh vegetables in season 
as well as luscious fruit from the beginning with strawberries and ending with the almost 
ever-keeping apple. 
Material for Garden Ornamentation 
Special attention is paid to the cultivation so as to produce strong, thrifty and healthy 
stock with a fine mass of roots, which, in most cases, lift with a ball of earth, so that the 
plants hardly know that they have been shifted from the nursery where they were grown 
to the place where they are destined to decorate and grow into beautiful specimens. 
Importance of Transplanted Stock 
Now, coming to the other point which treats with the material necessary to produce 
the effect in this connection, I have a most advantageous position, being" connected and 
interested with one of the largest iplant-growing establishments, The Universal Horticul¬ 
tural Establishment of South Orange, N. J., Plainfield, N. J., and St. Albans, Herts, 
England, where we cultivate the largest collection of decorative stock of any firm existing, 
and especially such stock as is needed in the Landscape Department. 
