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SEE HOW Casily YOU CAN NOW SURROUND 
YOU LIKE COLOR DON’T YOU? AND THE DELIGHTFUL FRAGRANCE 
Here’s Your Easy-To-Follow Guide to Bring New Colorful Beauty—Breath-Taking Fragrance— 
Greater Enjoyment—to Your Home Grounds with Stark Bro’s Hardy, Super-Quality Flowering 
Shrubs, Flowering Trees, Shade Trees, Colorful Vines, Glorious Roses and Handsome Hedges 
Color makes the difference! Your home may be well built, grace- 
fully proportioned .. . yet that ‘‘certain something” is missing. Truly, it’s 
MAGIC the way even a few well chosen flowering shrubs and trees can 
transform your house into a cheerful, complete, inviting HOME! The addi- 
tion of attractive COLORFUL rainbow-hued Stark flowering shrubs, 
vines, trees, colorful, fragrant roses and well trimmed hedges will lend new 
enjoyment, new satisfaction to your home—not only in the Spring, but all 
Summer long and late into the Fall, too. And on through the Winter season 
there will be colorful twigs and berries, points of interest—bright stemmed 
shrubs and plants that help your home blend into its natural surroundings. 
AMAZING RESULTS FOR LITTLE COST 
You may have heard others tell of the big investments they have made 
in planting and landscaping their homes. The smart way is to do it your- 
self. Actually you will save perhaps hundreds of dollars and have worlds 
of fun. It’s easy and simple—and there’s really no “‘secret” to planning 
landscaping, ordering and doing your own planting. These pages and the 
beautiful color pages that follow give you all the facts . . . help you visualize 
exactly how your home will look once your Stark Ornamentals are in the 
ground. With each order Stark Bro’s send a complete, simplified, easy-to- 
follow Planting Guide that anyone can follow successfully. This is FREE, 
with Stark Bro’s best wishes. 
DO THE FRONT YARD THIS SEASON 
No need to do “everything” at once. Plan to landscape the front of your 
home this season. Check the planting plans and ornamental keys on the 
following 3 pages and order the colorful flowering shrubs, trees, vines and 
other ornamentals you need for immediate foundation planting. If your 
home is of normal size, the cost will be small because the biggest land- 
scaping cost is for the actual planning and planting which you save by doing 
it yourself. Next season you can landscape the back of your home and 
then complete the entire job the following season. You’ll have a rewarding 
three-year hobby ... and you'll delight in every moment you devote to this 
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The Formal Planting Arrangement. If space is limited, especially in the 
smaller city backyards, a simple formal planting arrangement may be most 
practical. The simple formal arrangement of straight lines is easier to main- 
tain and occupies less of the space available. Start with an open lawn with 
straight beds of roses and flowers at the sides .. . plant straight shrub borders 
behind the flowers. An arbor, arch, seat or some similar feature placed at the 
back or at the sides of the planted arrangement emphasizes the formal at- 
mosphere. Straight rows of Dwarf Trees in rear of small house above empha- 
size the formal arrangement with fireplace as central feature at back. 
healthful, creative outdoor activity. Best of all, the cost, because it is 
spread over seasons, will never be missed. 
BOOST YOUR PROPERTY VALUE 
Stark super-quality Flowering Shrubs, Colorful Vines, eye-catching Roses 
and other ornamentals are like “‘money in the bank.”’ They immediately 
improve the value of your property . . . may easily add up to $1000 or more 
in value for an investment of a relatively few dollars and some pleasantly 
spent hours. Should you ever wish to sell, your Stark ornamentals will be- 
come the buyer’s first impression of your home. This is the ONE invest- 
ment you will ever make that rewards you with pleasure and satisfaction 
all the time you occupy your home... then repays you many times the 
original investment. Good Stark landscaping is good business! 
Stark Bro’s colorful Super-Quality Ornamentals are grown, packed and 
shipped with the utmost skill and care. They are healthy, sturdy plants... 
with heavy root systems that “take hold” and grow rapidly. Treat your 
home to a mantle of color... all year long! Plant Stark Ornamentals this 
season. 
FREE With Your Order 
This New Stark Booklet ‘‘How to Plant 
Your Own Trees with Ease and Save 
Money” is sent absolutely FREE with 
every shipment of Stark Nursery Stock. 
Instructions for Planting and Pruning 
are so Simple and Easy to follow, it will 
be fun for you to do your own Planting— 
and Save Money. 
This is the Informal . . . or truly Natural Arrangement. We imitate the 
graceful beauty of nature’s own way of planting. Several plants of each kind 
grow in informal groups .. . a planting arrangement that forms its own long, 
curved, informal borders. Most home owners prefer this natural type of 
planting because it assists the home to blend into its surroundings. Beautiful, 
informal banks of shrubs with the larger, higher ones in the rear and the lower 
ones in front combine to give a continuous series of colorful bloom from early 
spring to late fall. While each planting problem is different, the sketch above 
will suggest how to go about planning your own arrangement. 
