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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
try wonderful opportunities lost where it would have 
been better to make a rock garden than have the all-pre¬ 
vailing terraced levels. 
The illustration will give some idea what is meant. 
Gan anyone imagine a prettier and more fitting treat¬ 
ment for a small property on a side hill? 
The upkeej), care and attention is no more than grass 
would he, in fact, it is doubtful if it would be as much. 
It would, however, require interested attention to re¬ 
plant occasionally, fill in, weed and water. 
The one essential is the proper placing of the rocks so 
that they will not look artificial and formal and so as to 
form crevices and pockets that will contain soil of suf¬ 
ficient body and depth to support plants. The conserva¬ 
tion of moisture is the big thing in building the rock gar¬ 
den. ’The next oh importance is the proper selection of 
plants^. Thei'c are plants to- suit every situation and 
condition of soil and exposure and when properly se¬ 
lected make an interesting display from early spring un¬ 
til late fall. 
ANTOINE WINTZER’S OPINION OF THE 
ROX-BARBERRY 
The Conard & Jones Go., West Grove, Pa., U. S. A. 
October 31, 1917. 
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The Elm Gity Nursery Go., Woodmonl Nurseries, Inc. 
New Haven, Gonn. 
1 received your very kind letter of October 16th today, 
and am glad that you remember the short visit I enjoyed 
while at your place last August. It was a red letter 
day for me, to converse with friends engaged in the 
same cause, trying to make this beautiful world morp 
beautiful by the earnest work of our hands and minds. 
I shall early try to see your beautiful place again. 
The Rox-Rarberry is in the opinion of the writer one of 
the best hardy plants introduced in many years, and will 
become a great popular favorite when its many good 
points become known. Extreme hardiness, clean grace¬ 
ful habit of growth combine to make it one of the most 
desirable and useful hardy plants in cultivation. I can 
well imagine a block of it clothed in its regal glowing 
fall coloring at this season. It will be desirable in many 
ways; as an individual plant, it is more beautiful than the 
Boxwood, more graceful and less formal; in groups also 
it will he charming in its natural form; as a hedge plant 
it will have no superior, as it will require less care and 
attention to keep it in good form than the majority of 
plants used for that purpose. I think it will prove highly 
satisfactory and an advertisement in itself wherever 
planted. Hundreds of millions of it will be planted in 
this country in the near future. I believe you are tak¬ 
ing the best course for its introduction and dissemination. 
It will be a winner all right. By getting the buying 
public a little hungry, they will take to it all the better 
by having to wait a while. Allow me to congratulate 
you for placing such a good hardy plant on the market. 
I merely give my opinion of Box-Barberry as I have seen 
it and firmly believe in it. 
With kind regards. 
Very truly yours, 
Antoine Wintzer, Vice President. 
I T is the purpose of the National Nurseryman to publish a roll 
of honor consisting of the names of those nurserymen serv¬ 
ing in the United States army in the present war. We shall 
appreciate it if our readers will'send us their nafiies and photo¬ 
graphs if possible. 
Charles R. Smith, Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve 
Corps, Aviation Camp, San Antonio, Texas.—Smith 
Bros. Nursery Company, Concord, Ga. 
Stuart Perkins, Wireless Operator, Special Radio School, 
Cambridge, Mass.—Jackson Perkins Co., Newark, 
N. Y. 
Wade Muldoon, Sergeant, Headquarters Military Police, 
Camp Hancock, Ga..—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
George Taijlor, Battery “F,” iOSth U. S. F. A., Camp Han¬ 
cock, Georgia.—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
Carroll A. Bagby, Capt. U. S. Infantry—New Haven Nur¬ 
series, New Haven, Mo. 
Oliver W. Bagby, Lieutenant, U. S. Navy—New Haven 
Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Ralph B. Bagby, Lieiitencmt, 21st U. S. F. A., Fort Riley, 
Kansas—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Lew W. Bagby, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) U. S. Navy — 
New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Paul Bathert, Battery F., 128th U. S. F. A., Ft. Silt, Okla¬ 
homa, New Hcweyi Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Charles Schwentker, Battery F, 128th U. S. F. A., Ft. Sill, 
Oklahorna-^New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Robert E. Bagby, Cadet, Senior Class, United States Miti- 
tary Academy—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, 
Mo. 
Harold J. Bagby, Enlisted Medical Reserve Corps—New 
Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Lloyd C. Stark, Major of the Field Artillery, Fort Sitl, 
Okta. Vice-President and a Director of Stark Bros. 
Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo. Presi¬ 
dent of the National Association of Nurseries. 
Meredith P. Reed, Captain, Sixth Company Section U. S. 
Officers’ Reserve Corps.—Vincennes Nurseries, Vin¬ 
cennes, Indiana. 
William Flemer, Jr., F. & F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J. 
Private U. S. Expeditinoary Force, Aynbulance Corps, 
Battalion No. 23, Section No. 23, France. 
Clay M. Stark, Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., 
Louisiana, Missouri. American Field Service. Now 
in France. 
Lawton V. Smith, nephew of the Smith Brothers, of Con¬ 
cord Nurseries, of Concord, Ga., now a lieutenant in 
the Aviation Section of the Army, and stationed near 
Toronto, Canada. 
Philip Bouse and Julian Bouse, nephews of the Smith 
Brothers, now in the Naval Reserve, with headquar¬ 
ters at Jacksonville, Fla. 
