FOR YOUR SPRING PLANTING 
May we suggest the eight groups below, as an ideal assort¬ 
ment for immediate planting. 
For best results these groups should be planted at the first 
thawing of the ground, and we therefore advise that you 
do your ordering now, in order to insure the best selection 
of stock and timely delivery. 
Kindly notice that the group prices are considerably below 
the individual prices. 
SELECTED DWARF EVERGREENS 
For Porch or Foundation Planting 
Pyramid Arbor Vitae.2 ft. 
$2.00 Ea. 
Dwf. Compact Arbor Vitae 
l/ 2 ft. $1.75 Ea. 
American Arbor Vitae.2 ft. 
$1.50 Ea. 
Golden Plume Cypress.2 ft. 
$2.50 Ea. 
Green Plume Cypress.... 2 ft. 
Japanese Yew. W 2 ft. 
$2.75 Ea. 
Veitch’s Blue Plume Cypress 
2 ft. $2.75 Ea. 
Blue Pyramid Juniper. ... 1 J4 ft. 
$2.50 Ea. 
Oriental Arbor Vitae.2 ft. 
$2.00 Ea. 
Threaded Branched Cypress 
114 fti $2.50 Ea. 
Pfitzer’s Juniper. 
$2.50 Ea. | Dwarf Mugho Pine... .15-18 m. 
” ' " $2.75 Ea. 
$28.25 
.114 ft. 
$2.75 Ea. I 
For 1 (12 of each) $26.00 
BEAUTIFUL EVERGREENS (Tall Growing) 
For the Lawn 
Hemlock Spruce.$4.00 Ea. 
Austrian Pine.3.50 Ea. 
Scotch Pine. 2.75 Ea. 
Douglas Fir. 3.25 Ea. 
Veitch’s Fir. 4.50 Ea. 
Norway Spruce.2.75 Ea. 
Bothan Pine.$3.25 Ea. 
Red Pine. 2.75 Ea. 
White Spruce. 3.50 Ea. 
Pyramidal Spruce. 3.75 Ea. 
Silver Fir.,4.50 Ea. 
Japanese Pine. 3.25 Ea. 
$41.75 
All selected specimens 3 to 4 ft. high. For 12 (1 of each) $38.00 
EXQUISITE EVERGREEN AZALEAS 
AMOENA (vivid crimson) and HINODIG1RI (bright pink). Plants 
ready to bloom—12 to 18 inches high. $2.75 each. 
$30.00 per dozen 
HARDY PERENNIALS 
A superb collection which will give bloom all season 
10 Peonies Ass’td .$5.50 , 10 German Iris .$2.00 
10 Oriental Poppies . 2.00 I 10 Hardy Aster . 2.00 
10 Phlox Ass’td . 2.00 
10 Foxglove . I... 2.00 
10 Larkspur . 2.00 
10 Japan Iris . 2.00 
10 Hollyhocks . 2.00 
10 Blanket Flower . 2.00 
10 Sweet William . 2.00 
10 Canterbury Bells . 2.00 
For 120 (10 of each) $24.00 
FLOWERING SHRUBS 
Selected to give flowers all season 
Double White Deutzia I Large Flowered Deutzia 
$27.50 
Clover Shrub 
Golden Bark Dogwood 
Strawberry Shrub 
Button Bush 
Red Branched Dogwood 
Golden Bell 
Large Flowered Hydrangea 
Rose of Sharon 
Persian Lilac 
Sweet Syringa 
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Extra heavy, 3 to 4 ft. shrubs. $7.50 per dozen (1 of each) 
$65.00 per hundred (Assorted) 
DWARF FLOWERING TREES 
4 to 6 ft. high, for lawn planting 
Flowering Dogwood (White) 
$1.25 Ea. 
Flowering Peach (Double Red) 
$1.25 Ea. 
Flowering English Hawthorn 
(Pink) .$1.50 Ea. 
Flowering Crab Apple (Delicate 
Pink) .$1.75 Ea. 
Flowering Yellow Wood (White) 
$2.50 Ea. 
Flowering Silver Bell (White) 
$1.75 Ea. 
Flowering Purple Leaved Plum 
(White) ..$1.50 Ea. 
Flowering Oxvdendron (Sorrell) 
Tree (Wht.) .$2.25 Ea. 
Flowering Japanese Tree Lilac 
(White) .$1.50 Ea. 
Flowering Japanese Cherry 
(Pink) .$2.75 Ea. 
$18 00 
For 10 (1 of each) $16.00 
STANDARD FRUIT TREES 
Special Collection, 6 to 7 ft. high, for garden planting 
cn ' c ’“ Early Richmond Cherry $2.00 Ea. 
Champion Peach . 1.00 Ea. 
Crawford Early Peach. 1.00 Ea. 
Elberta Peach . 1.00 Ea. 
Burbank Plum . 1.75 Ea. 
Wickson Plum . 1.75 Ea. 
Abundance Plum . 1.75 Ea. 
Baldwin Apple .$1.50 Ea. 
Spitzenburg Apple .... 1.50 Ea. 
Winesap Apple . 1.50 Ea. 
Bartlett Pear . 1.50 Ea. 
Sheldon Pear . 1.50 Ea. 
Duchess Pear . 1.50 Ea. 
Gov. Wood Cherry .... 2.00 Ea. 
Napoleon Cherry. 2.00 Ea. 
For 15(1 each) $20.00 
$23.25 
DWARF FRUIT TREES 
4 lo 5 feet high—take half ihe room of standard sizes and fruit sooner 
Baldwin Apple Beurre Anjou Apple 
Delicious Apple ’ — 
Fall Pippin Apple 
Northern Spy Apple 
Spitzenburg Apple 
Early Harvest Apple 
Sheldon Pear 
Vermont Beauty Pear 
Clapp's Favorite Pear 
Bartlett Pear 
i Duchess Pear 
$1.50 each. For 12 (1 of each) $16.00 
Successful for oNer century" 
AMERICAN /NURSERIES 
H.E.HOLDEN, AA&naJer 
Singer Building 
/NEW? YORK, 
House <5* Garden 
More About the Garden Between Walls 
(Continued from page 174) 
cheerful helpers they make when they 
are brought into the open and permit¬ 
ted to exercise for several hours with 
shovels, spades and hoes, and in this 
way it is possible to get a lot of the 
heavier work done without encroach¬ 
ing on the time of the regular helpers, 
allowing them to pursue the work that 
only men of experience can be trusted 
with. 
“Most of the planting, spraying, and 
watering I try to do myself, largely 
because I have much greater freedom 
and a greater number of hours to work 
in, besides which I personally super¬ 
vise the work of the others. I intend 
making the rose garden my special 
hobby and will assign myself personal 
charge of the roses, so please feel as¬ 
sured that I will take the best possible 
care of all the plantings that pass 
through your clearing house, whether 
the number be 500 or 1,000. I already 
have 100 hybrid teas and 50 polyanthus 
on the benches in the greenhouse. My 
original intention was to transplant the 
greenhouse roses to the garden in the 
spring, but Mr. Pierson advises holding 
them in the greenhouse for cut flowers 
that can go to the Hospital, the Chapel, 
and the Death House, growing the 
garden roses for ornament. Do you 
approve ? 
“Please do not be dismayed by the 
magnitude of my dream rose garden or 
imagine that I contemplate that the 
American Rose Society will contribute 
the large number of plantings I have 
indicated. I shall be grateful for as 
many or as few as they may care to 
send. Whatever the numbers I will give 
them devoted care, and I'll make my 
garment with the cloth I have, meaning 
that I’ll make the most of the plant¬ 
ings that are contributed and if there 
are not enough to fill all of the space 
I have laid out, I’ll grow grass in the 
empty beds until more roses come in 
following plant seasons. 
“Now that I have bared my soul to 
you as to the number of roses I 
would like to grow, won’t you, please, 
give me the benefit of your riper ex¬ 
perience and indicate the size of rose 
garden and number of plantings you 
think would be appropriate for a place 
like this, and when you can, will you 
kindly indicate the number of plantings 
that are likely to be contributed? 
“When contributions of bulbs began 
to come I got excited over the prospect 
of receiving 1,000, yet before the plant¬ 
ing season was over I had planted more 
than 6,000, perhaps considerably more, 
for they came so fast I lost count. 
“As to duplication, I cannot think it 
will make any difference whether I have 
ten or a hundred of any one variety. 
All roses are beautiful. Mr. Pierson 
sent me 25 each of four varieties in 
his first contribution, while the Ameri¬ 
can Rose & Plant Company of Spring- 
field, Ohio, sent ten each of ten 
varieties. The fifty polyanthus are all 
of one kind—Cecile Brunner. 
“I wish you could see how splendidly 
the roses in the greenhouse are grow¬ 
ing. The first few months I kept them 
disbudded to strengthen the stock, but 
now the blooms are coming and very 
beautiful they are. I could wish for 
nothing more beautiful than Columbia, 
Priscilla, Pilgrim and Sylvia, all of 
which are now in bloom. 
“In the garden I am massing pinks, 
reds, yellows, and whites, one color to 
a bed, but not caring if there are two 
varieties of pink or ten varieties of pink 
in a bed. So please do not let us con¬ 
cern ourselves to any great extent about 
duplication. I can classify and group 
as the plants arrive, just as I did with 
the perennials, the iris, the peonies, and 
the spring bulbs. 
“By the way my ‘Invisible Helpers’ 
were prompt in responding to my 
appeal for bone meal, for a letter from 
Henry A. Dreer of Philadelphia in¬ 
forms me that he is shipping several 
hundred pounds, ordered sent to me by 
a garden club of that city. I think I 
can easily guess who was chosen by 
the ‘I. H.’s’ to make known my needs. 
Thank you, ever so much. Mr. Eisele, 
President of the Dreer seed house, sent 
a personal letter to say he had read my 
letter in House & Garden and it 
interested him so much that he was 
sending me his annual catalogue, with 
a request that I go through it, pick out 
what I wish and give him the oppor¬ 
tunity of contributing. I have been 
looking through his catalogue this eve¬ 
ning and there is so much in it I covet 
that I know that I shall not be able to 
use proper restraint in responding to 
his generous offer. It is like inviting a 
beggar into Tiffany’s and telling him 
to help himself. 
“No, I haven’t your ‘Truly Rural’, 
but I’ll be glad to possess a copy. I 
notice Doubleday, Page have just got¬ 
ten out a new book by F. F. Rockwell, 
‘Gardening Under Glass’, and I am 
tempted to send for it, but as I have 
not always been fortunate in selecting 
gardening books by their titles may I 
ask your opinion of it ? I’ve got ‘Plant 
Culture’, by Oliver, ‘Greenhouse Man¬ 
agement’, by Taft, ‘Commercial Flori¬ 
culture’, by Bahr and ‘The Complete 
Garden’, by Taylor, all excellent, in¬ 
spirational and instructive. 
“I never plant anything without con¬ 
sulting one or all of these books, and 
every night I take one of them to bed 
with me, for in the new quarters where 
I now sleep there are no restrictions 
as to when lights must be extinguished. 
Often I read half of the night and do 
not put out the light until my clock 
warns me that 5 o’clock, my getting up 
time, will soon have me out of bed 
with no sleep. Sleeping seems a waste 
of precious hours when one has work 
to do, seems that way even to a lifer 
in prison. 
“I haven't attempted to reply to your 
request for suggestions as to how the 
clearing house for rose contributions 
shall be handled, for you know so much 
more about it than I do that any sug¬ 
gestion of mine would be an imperti¬ 
nence. Just handle it the way you 
think it should be done and I’ll do my 
share after the plantings come, much 
of it in advance, for I’ll have the plant¬ 
ing spaces well fertilized and in readi¬ 
ness to receive the bushes. 
“My very best wishes to you, always, 
and please understand how much your 
kindness to me is appreciated.” 
