
and we hear them referred to as lovely, typical 
“orandmother’s gardens” of olden times. 
As his business grew, he saw the wisdom of com- 
bining with his practical knowledge and experience 
the skill and ability of trained specialists in land- 
scape design, construction and planting, and in the 
raising of high quality Cape Cod grown plants and 
flowers. Today’s Cape Cod Nurseries of some 35 
acres are a part of the Lawrence organization. Six 
greenhouses and a well-appointed flower shop offer 
a modern flower service in a modern way. The Agri- 
cultural Supply Shop provides seeds, fertilizers, in- 
secticides and all gardening supplies. 
A well-trained force of fifty men or more, with a 
fleet of a dozen trucks and up-to-date mechanical 
equipment, carries on the extensive landscape con- 
struction work of planting, grading, lawn making, the 
construction of gardens, driveways, walks, terraces, 
walls, tennis courts and all other improvements of 
grounds, as well as the important maintenance work 
of mowing, pruning, mulching and the like. 
A staff of four men, college-trained in landscape 
architecture and engineering, handles the planning, 
designing and the construction supervision of the 
actual landscape work covering the greater part of 
Cape Cod and vicinity. 
Not with intent to boast, but rather with a bit of 
just pride, and to acquaint our customers, present 
and future, with the truth about what good land- 
scaping actually means, and how the H. V. Lawrence 
service is equipped to meet the need on Cape Cod, 
this outline of the scope of our services is respect- 
fully offered. 
At the turn of the century 
