P. J.Berckmms Co. Avgvsta . Georgia 
ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT 
An effective border planting of Deciduous and Broad-leaved Shrubs 
Landscape Design 
We offer our services to owners of private estates, suburban and city home grounds, suburban communities, residential parks 
officials in charge of the development of the grounds of educational and other institutions, summer and winter resorts, hotel grounds, 
country club and golf grounds, public squares and playgrounds, parkways, mill villages, cemeteries, and to all those desiring to have 
their properties laid out and improved in good taste. 
We have had long and varied experience in this profession, and are almost daily called into consultation with the owner and 
house-architect in selecting the layout of approach drive, service road, walks, lawn areas, flower garden, kitchen garden, and service 
yard. We visit and make a study of the property to be improved, give verbal suggestions and written reports. 
If the problems requiring solution are such as can only be satisfactorily disposed of by means of plans, we arc prepared to make 
topographical surveys, design preliminary and general plans, and, for the better execution of the work, detailed grading, drainage, 
and planting plans, specifications and estimates. 
We solicit correspondence with any one interested in landscape work. 
P. J. BERCKMANS CO., Inc., Landscape Architects 
414 Harison Bid’*.. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA 
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Ornamental Department 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
The comparatively recent development of the desire for suburban homes has, within the past few years, created a grow¬ 
ing demand for such things as will contribute to the exterior beauty of the home; especially so as the greater space enjoyed lends 
itself most readily to this end. However, there is scarcely a home in country, suburbs or town, the beauty and value of which 
cannot be enhanced by a judicious treatment of the grounds, be they large or small; and for this purpose no class of plants lend 
themselves more readily than the hardy flowering shrubs. Their importance has only recently begun to be appreciated, but the 
demand has increased so rapidly within the past few years that we have found it necessary to increase our plantings each season, 
and this year we have again materially increased our acreage and the list of varieties carried, and we are prepared to furnish the 
most desirable shrubs in large quantities. We grow the best sorts that have been tested as to their adaptability to the South: 
we also grow very largely of the hardy varieties adapted to the northern sections. 
The same directions for the preparation of the soil and planting as given for deciduous fruit trees on page 6 applies to the 
average deciduous shrub. We cannot, however, too strongly impress the necessity of keeping the ground free from weeds and 
grass, and loose by frequent stirring, aft^r being planted. 
A few hints upon planting and pruning deciduous shrubs may aid many persons in handling these with judgment and care t 
and increase the vigor of their growth. Nearly all deciduous shrubs which are grown in open ground should have their tops and 
branches cut back one-third or one-half, as seems necessary. Cut back the most vigorous-growing sorts more than those that 
are of more dwarf habit. All shrubs that flower on the wood of the preceding year’s growth should not be pruned until June or 
July, or after the crop of flowers is over. To this class belong the following: 
Altheas, Pyrus Japonica, Deutzia, Philadelphus, Spirea, etc. The old wood may bd shortened-in, in order to promote the 
young growth, which is to produce flowers the following year. But some varieties, like Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, which 
produce flowers upon the young wood, should be pruned during winter. 
We will supply io shrubs in io varieties, standard size, our selection for $i 50 
Or 100 shrubs in 25 or 50 varieties, standard size, our selection, for 10 00 
Or 10 shrubs in 10 varieties, extra heavy, for. 2 00 
Or 100 shrubs in 25 or 50 varieties, extra heavy, for. .15 00 
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