. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. ?U6 Trees Few people are aware of the commercial value of ornamental trees, vines and shrubs judiciously- planted around our homes. Really, there is nothing else which, for the amount invested, will produce such grand and valuable results. But because the effect is not immediate many hesitate, delay, and even neg

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. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, fruit & ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, plants & bulbs, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. ?U6 Trees Few people are aware of the commercial value of ornamental trees, vines and shrubs judiciously- planted around our homes. Really, there is nothing else which, for the amount invested, will produce such grand and valuable results. But because the effect is not immediate many hesitate, delay, and even neglect planting, when it would be wisdom to attend to it the first thing. Plant shade trees along the highway. Maples, Linden, Elm, Horse Chestnut, Catalpa and Mountain Ash are all suitable. In the country Winter Apples or Sweet Cherry trees will also do splendidly. If your buildings are exposed to higd winds, plant a row or two of Norway Spruce or Austrian Pine on the windward side of them, far enough off to have a roomy yard. It will save you much fuel in winter, to say nothing of the comfort to yourself and domestic animals. Don't make a checker-board of your yard or lawn by planting trees and shrubs in regular rows. Mass them in groups or clumps around the edges in such a way as to show them off to best advantage. A Cut Leaf Weeping Birch is always graceful and conspicuous, but especially so against a back- ground of Evergreens or a dark-colored building. So are bright flowering shrubs and border plants. Plant shrubs that bloom at different seasons, so as to always have some in flower. A group con- sisting of shrubs of contrasting colors blooming f>t the same time and trimmed into a dense clump of oval form cannot fail to please the eye of every beholder. One of the most graceful and effective clumps we ever saw consisted simply of a few smoke trees allowed to branch from the ground up, and trimmed so as to form one mass sixteen feet in diameter, standing in full bloom in