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Modern Design in Appropriate Setting 
Good Landscape Service 
The wide use, and too-frequent abuse, of the 
familiar word ‘“‘Service”’ is well known to everyone. 
A service worthy of the name is usually one in 
which an individual, or a group, especially trained, 
well experienced, and properly equipped, will do for 
people who need them, certain worth-while things 
which others less qualified are not able to do, and 
do them well. 
A complete Landscape Service in its field exactly 
fits that definition. 
It is much more than a man with a spade, a 
lawn mower and a pair of shears,— more than 
plantsmen selling and planting trees. 
At its best it is a well-knit organization of skilled 
and experienced personnel, some _ professionally 
trained in landscape architecture and engineering, 
some in the production and handling of plant ma- 
terials, and others trained in doing the actual labor 
on the grounds — grading, planting, lawn making, 
the construction of driveways, walls, terraces and 
the like, together with mowing, pruning, and proper 
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