NOVELTY AND GENERAL CATALOG 
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Large Specimen Stock for Immediate Effect 
Not only are we well-equipped with a general stock of small sizes and ordinary kinds 
of trees and shiubs that are generally used, but our collection contains some of the finest 
rarest and largest specimens that is possible to be transplanted, which gives and produces 
immediate effect, and saves years and years of waiting, and takes away the impression 
of a newly laid-out place immediately. p 
K is always preferable and advisable to use good-sized speei.nens as well as the 
choicest varieties that can be obtained, and ovoid as much as possible the planting of 
inferior stock, as when it grows up it will be a detriment and an eyesore rather than a 
beautiful object in the garden. 
Selection of Choicest Varieties 
The ornamental trees should be regarded in the same light as fruit trees, for if you 
are gomg to plant a fruit tree, you want to plant the choicest and most popular variety 
rather than a wild seedling that will produce only sour fruit, and in the end you will be 
at the expense of rooting same out of the ground, having lost years and years of waiting 
and have to try over again with the proper kind of stock. 
Conifers or Evergreen Trees 
Another class of stock which I take pleasure in especially recommending is the Coni¬ 
fers or Evergreens. This class of plants are evergreen through the entire year, and whose 
gift of green and cheering effect in the winter, when other trees are in their dormant 
condition, and have lost their foliage. Not only are they beautiful, but healthy also. 
Their resinous odor purifies the air and makes a healthful atmosphere. 
The evergreens are especially noticeable in the spring when they are making their 
new growth, which blends the colors from the darkest green to almost a bright yellow and 
deepest metallic blue. They vary in form and size also, some attaining the height of three 
hundred feet, while others are small and compact growers, so they can be used for 
almost any purpose. 
Broad-Leaf Evergreen Shrubs 
Another class of plants I wish to recommend is the one called the Broad-Leaf Ever¬ 
green Plants. This class contains such beautiful shrubs and plants as Boxwoods, Rhodo¬ 
dendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas and other floral gems that have, as a rule, leathery bright 
green foliage throughout the year, while in the spring and summer they produce a wealth 
of flowers such as the Azaleas, Kalmia and others. The majority of plants of this class 
are especially adapted for planting in the shade of other trees where they thrive admirably 
and produce a distinct effect. 
Hardy Perennial or Herbaceous Plants 
Another class that more attention should be paid to is the Hardy Perennial or 
Herbaceous Plants. This class contains a great number of old-time varieties found 
only in old-fashioned gardens. Plants that contain the early harbinger of the spring, 
such as the Primrose, Clove Pinks, Moss Pinks, Columbine, Poppies, Daronicum and 
Meadow Sweet, which are followed later in the season with such favorites as the Lark¬ 
spur, Coreopsis, Harebells, Poppies, Peonies and numerous varieties of Iris, Fleur-de-Lis, 
Eorget-Me-Nots, Pink Daisies, Phlox and so on, through the summer, until it finishes up 
with a wealth of different varieties of Daisies, Hardy Sun Flowers, Giant Daisies Cone 
Flowers, varieties of grasses and Michelmas Daisies, and finishing with an array of 
Hardy Pompon Chrysanthemums which comprise every color excepting blue, and which 
