An Up-to-Date Nursery 
even the smallest plots of land, can learn here much 
that may be utilized. 
“Very little care, if any, is needed for hardy her¬ 
baceous plants,” a gardener explains. “By these 
we mean such plants as may be allowed to remain 
permanently in the open ground. Of course the 
foliage dies down each fall, but comes forth again 
each spring. A fairly good soil to begin with, occa¬ 
sional enrichings, a little cultivation to eradicate 
the weeds, the cutting down of the old dead tops and 
a slight covering for a few of the varieties in choice 
collections are all that is necessary. 
“Naturally some judgment is required in the 
planning of effective borders or beds. The low 
growing varieties should be selected for planting 
near the edge and the taller sorts graded up toward 
the 'center or back. One may also increase the 
stocks in various groups and beds by lifting up the 
plants and dividing the roots.” 
To get at the master minds of this institution, one 
is ushered through a series of offices, arranged for 
the corps of assistants, stenographers, topographical 
draftsmen, and landscape gardeners, to the private 
office, a room far from being small in actual propor¬ 
tions, and yet with desks, tables and shelves so piled 
with papers and correspondence as to suggest the 
editorial rooms of a city newspaper on the night of 
a close election. 
The senior member, small in stature, swarthy of 
skin, active, keen, alert, traces a long line of ancestors 
devoted to Dutch horticulture. The junior partner, 
in direct contrast, stalwart, broad shouldered, of 
florid complexion, sandy hair and moustache, 
remembers with pride a youth spent on a great 
English estate of which his father was superin¬ 
tendent. 
We are told by horticulturists that the grafting, or 
hybridization of heterogeneous plant life, produces 
more perfect specimens, choicer fruits, and more 
hardy varieties. Even the most unenlightened lay¬ 
man realizes the effect of this grafting or union of 
Teuton and Anglo-Saxon intellect. Photographs 
hanging on the office walls show great quantities 
of shrubs, plants and trees which adorn the beautiful 
country places of Newport, Tuxedo, Lakewood and 
elsewhere, telling graphically of the estimation in 
which these experts are held by many of the leading 
financiers, professional and business men of the 
country. One group of six photographs shows several 
hundred magnificent bay trees alone, that have been 
purchased for the approaches of the National 
Capitol. 
Under the guidance of the junior partner, we first 
visit the evergreen section, conceded to be the most 
magnificent collection ever made in America. This 
section, devoted to hardy evergreens and conifers, 
comprises many acres of land. It is astonishing to 
note the number of shades of green among the 150 
varieties planted here: golden, bronze, bright tones, 
dull tones, blue greens, gray greens, orange greens, 
and greens so dark as to seem almost black. Beau¬ 
tiful specimens of the hemlock, juniper, cypress, 
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