THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Surplus Stock XXX Quality 
40,000 Norway Spruce in perfect condition, 15-18 in., 18-24 in., 2-3 ft. 
25,000 Hardy Phlox, 50 best named kinds. 
5,000 Specimen Am. Arbor Vitea, 4-5 ft. sheared and root pruned 
stock. If in need of this quality ask for prices. 
ADOLF MULLER 
DeKALB NURSERIES Norristown, Pa. 
18 miles West of Philadelphia 4 kinds of railways 
30,000 One Year Peach 
To offer Spring 1915 in good assortment, these are extra 
fine trees, 7-16 and up, mostly in heavier grades, 
nice straight and smooth, good height and 
well branched. Special prices in 
carload lots. 
EASTERLY NURSERY CO, 
CLEVELAND, TENN. 
I 
SAFETY— 
order your 
FIRST 
H. Den Ouden & Son 
I 
J Azaleas, Boxwood, Evergreens, Rhododendrons, Maples, 
Roses, etc., etc., from 
J “The Old Farm Nurseries” Boskoop, Holland j 
Peach Trees 
and Strawberry Plants 
all leading market sorts for Spring, 1915. 
MYERS & SON, - Bridgeville, Del. 
BLACK BERRY 
Root Cuttings and Plants at one-third to one-half usual prices. No. 
1 stock. All varieties. Also fine lot Ben Davis Apple trees, 
two-year-olds, at your own ^rice. We need Early Richmond and 
Montmorency Cherry, Elberta Peach and Plum trees. Exchange 
preferred. 
GRAY’S NURSERIES 
SALEM, IND. • Dept. W. 
Asparagus Roots 
Large, heavy crowns with numer¬ 
ous buds; roots long, plump and vig¬ 
orous. Our 1 yr. plants are as large 
as average size 2 yr. plants, owing to 
our exceptional soil and long growing 
season large enough to satisfy cus¬ 
tomers who want big 2 yr. plants. 
U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers’ Bulletin 
No. 61, says: "I yr. crowns to be 
preferred. Has been proved produce 
larger and more valuable crops than 
either 2 or 3 year olds.” 
Conover Colossal Asparagus 1 yr. 
old roots $2.75 per M. 
Strawberry Plants 
Ozark Mountain grown. Our Stark 
City soil produces wonderful roots, 
heavy, long, spreading. Over seven 
million strawberry plants; 30 best 
varieties. 
1 and 2 Year Apple, Etc. 
Send for list of varieties and prices on all fruit trees, berry bushes, roses, 
ornamentals. Perfection Currant, Oregon Champion Gooseberry, Etc. Extra 
quality. Stark City grown. Samples on request. 
WM. P. STARK NURSERIES, 
NEOSHO - - MISSOURI 
SELECTION OF LAWN TREES. 
Hie misuse of trees or rather the wrong selection for 
lawn is so common as to be almost a tragedy. Every¬ 
where you go the same results are to be seen. Beautiful 
houses being built, showing the best efforts of architect¬ 
ural art and builder’s skill, but there it stops and very of¬ 
ten the grounds are planted so carelessly as to completely 
spoil the appearance instead of being in harmony and 
forming a suitable setting for the building. 
.lust who is to blame is a little uncertain, but the nur¬ 
seryman certainly is not entirely exempt, especially in 
those small places w here they do not employ a competent 
landscape gardener and go to the nurseryman for a shade 
tree for the lawn. 
Too often the customer’s knowledge of trees is limited 
to the maple and poplar. While these trees are good 
enough in their place, in the front of a house on a small 
lawn is no place for them. It is true they grow quickly 
but in fifteen or twenty years what happens, (low ers, 
lawn and everything is sacrificed to them and instead of 
being decorative and subordinate the building they dom¬ 
inate and spoil everything. 
If it were a question of these trees or none there would 
be some excuse but there are . so many choice trees to 
choose from that will give shade without interfering 
with a free circulation of air, be complementary to the 
building, enhancing its beauty, keeping in proper propor¬ 
tion to its surroundings, without spoiling the law n and 
making the house look gloomy. 
People should be encouraged to plant choicer and more 
appropriate kinds for small yards, such as Ulmus parvi- 
folia, Chinese Elm; Sophora Japonica, Chinese Pagoda 
Tree; Salisburia adiantifolia , Maidenhair tree; Cercidi- • 
phyllum Japonic urn: Betula alba , European White Birch; 
Betula laciniata pendula, Cut-leaf Weeping Birch; Acer 
campestre, English Cork Maple; Styrax Japonica, Japan¬ 
ese Storax; Quercus pains Iris , Pin Oak; Acer polymor- 
phum, Japanese Maple; Acer polymorphum atropurpur- 
eum, Blood-leaved Japanese Maple; Magnolia conspicua, 
Chinese Flowering Magnolia; Liquidambar styraciflua, 
Sweet Gum. 
sE Obituary. 
We have just learned that Mr. Leigh Overman, prop¬ 
rietor of the Overman’s Nursery, Spokane, Washington, 
died September 3rd. at Rochester, Minnesota. 
He attended the National convention in July and then 
returned to Spokane for a short business trip, alter 
which he left for the hospital. He had been in the nur¬ 
sery business in Spokane for the past six years, and was 
w r ell known among nurserymen in tlx 1 northwest, being 
an enthusiastic member of the Pacific Coast Association. 
His uncles. Nathan and Cyrus Overman established the 
old Mound Nurseries, at Fairview. Illinois, in the early 
forties, and Cyrus Overman afterwards became presi¬ 
dent of the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Overman’s business will be continued by his man¬ 
ager, R. Diehl, assisted by his former help. 
