HARLAN P. KELSEY, Owner, SALEM, MASS 
PRICES ARE AT BOXFORD NURSERY 
LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENT 
Planning and Planting, and the Use of Hardy Native Plants 
SEE ILLUSTRATIONS, PAGES 48 AND 49 
The successful carrying out of any landscape improvement depends to so great an extent 
upon the knowledge, skill, and good taste of the one to whom this work is intrusted, that 
it is supremely important to start right, no matter whether the work be large or small. 
By the employment of a trained landscape architect expensive experiments may be 
avoided and successful results insured. This applies to questions both of design and of prac¬ 
tical planting. 
There are so many well-trained landscape architects today that there is little excuse for any¬ 
one not having the joys that come from finely executed work that properly fits each case. 
The undersigned takes charge of the proper laying out and planting of large and small 
grounds, extensive estates, parks, cemeteries, and other public or private landscape improve¬ 
ments. Particular attention is given to the use of hardy American plants, which are unquestion¬ 
ably the basis of all the best permanent plantings in this country and particularly where 
naturalistic effects are desired. If this fact is ignored, the most finished and lasting results 
cannot be secured. The formal garden, where in the past exotics have been used almost 
exclusively, has wonderful possibilities, not yet fully realized, for the employment of many 
native plants, and especially our magnificent Rhododendrons, Kalmias, and other broad¬ 
leaved evergreens. These plants are not only absolutely hardy and unusually free from foreign 
diseases and pests, but show splendid summer and winter effects that can be produced in no 
other way. There arc. in fact, no foreign plants which can possibly take their place. 
Horticultural knowledge, including soil requirements and an intimate acquaintance with 
plant material, is quite as essential as and coordinate with proper designing, and these things 
are too often overlooked. Moreover, water-color sketches do not constitute landscape garden¬ 
ing. It is an art to be practised only after years of study and experience and, like painting 
and sculpture, must be born in one and cannot be altogether acquired. 
We are not committed to the use of Native Plants exclusively, and where useful and 
advisable, always introduce the best exotics to produce desired results. 
The undersigned is prepared to make professional visits for consultation and advice, to 
make surveys, plans, and designs, and to undertake the entire construction, planting, and 
carrying out of landscape work of all descriptions. 
The wild garden, the rockery, and the bog and water garden offer possibilities in the way of 
interest, distinctiveness, and variety that are either almost wholly overlooked or but meagerly 
taken advantage of. 
The mountain or seashore bungalow, the modest town home, and the pretentious estate 
must each have a treatment suitable to particular needs, though in every case a development 
should prevail that makes the most of striking natural features or topography, giving to each 
a character of its own. 
Lack of time, distance, and other conditions may sometimes lead customers to desire a 
local landscape architect. I know the leading members of the profession, and at any time on 
request will gladly recommend landscape architects who may be safely trusted with any 
commission, large or small. 
Correspondence with those having new grounds to lay out and plant, or unsatisfactory 
old grounds to make over, is solicited. Charges are reasonable, yet sufficient to warrant the 
best results, in fairness to my clients and myself. 
HARLAN P. KELSEY, Landscape Architect 
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS 
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