SOUTH ORANGE, N. J. 
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Landscape Gardening 
is a very important subject, and one that should 
fc be neglected or overlooked, especially when 
siding up a new place. 
It means that, with a good plan, you can lay 
b your place to all the advantages it commands 
naturally, besides making the developing features where the 
location is disadvantageous. The roads and walKs should 
be laid out, not only to be practical, but also to be in harmony 
with everything adjacent. 
The proper location of trees and shrubs, and the 
selection of the most desirable kinds, are very important, for you 
are planting for the future, and, as it takes years for a shrub or 
tree to grow, you should plant only such as would be desirable 
and valuable when grown up. The same applies to the location 
of vegetable, flower, fruit, rock or wild garden borders or 
flower beds. 
The grouping or massing of either trees, shrubs, plants 
or bulbs, to produce cei'tain effects at special seasons, either in 
foliage, flower or fruit, can only be successfully accomplished by 
having full knowledge of the habits and character of such plants. 
Many unsightly corners and spaces could be not 
only hidden, but actually made beautiful. Thus, outside the 
general flower garden, barren rocks and stumps of trees can be 
covered with luxuriant growth. 
Dry and Sandy Mills, where even grass refuses to grow, 
with proper selection can be made as beautiful as where the soil is 
rich, while marshes can be turned into handsome objects, and ponds 
covered with showy water plants. In one word, it is the knowledge 
of the habits of plants and their adaptability to certain locations 
that brings the desired success. 
Location and designing g'reenhouses, graperies, 
pits or frames on a place are also very important; so are the 
proper details in the construction of greenhouses, which are gener¬ 
ally left to architects, who do not take into consideration the prac¬ 
tical points of the greenhouse or conservatory. 
Do not lay out your place without a landscape 
g'ardener, any more than you would build a house without an 
architect; and you cannot do better than consult 
Yours truly, 
