. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ABUNDANTLY PREPARED A1 AU TIMES Edwards Flora) Hall Company 1716 Pacific Avenue ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY Nurseries: Mediterranean and South Carolina Aves Florists" Telegraph Delivery Ass\ DOVER. NEW JERSEY HACKETT8TOWN, AwnZO D. Herrid Telegraph Delivery NEW JERSEY SDWARD SCEKRY FATBRSON and PASSAIC Member Florists' Telegraph Del. MONTCLAIR, N. J. MASSMANN Member Florists' Tel. Del. Asi'n PARK RORAL COMPANY R. ABBOTT Both Phones Greenhouses: Buchanan, PLORISTS Lafayette and Schiller TRFNTflN N I Broad St. Park, inClllUn, ces
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ABUNDANTLY PREPARED A1 AU TIMES Edwards Flora) Hall Company 1716 Pacific Avenue ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY Nurseries: Mediterranean and South Carolina Aves Florists" Telegraph Delivery Ass\ DOVER. NEW JERSEY HACKETT8TOWN, AwnZO D. Herrid Telegraph Delivery NEW JERSEY SDWARD SCEKRY FATBRSON and PASSAIC Member Florists' Telegraph Del. MONTCLAIR, N. J. MASSMANN Member Florists' Tel. Del. Asi'n PARK RORAL COMPANY R. ABBOTT Both Phones Greenhouses: Buchanan, PLORISTS Lafayette and Schiller TRFNTflN N I Broad St. Park, inClllUn, cessful water lily specialists, had charge here prior to the time that William An- derson assumed the superintendency, nearly sixteen years ago. The estate, on well elevated ground, covers over 1,000 acres, and magnificent views have been secured by cutting vistas through the woodlands. Scores of acres have been planted with oaks, white pines, Douglas firs, hemlock spruce and other evergreens. Many of these plants are now twenty to twenty-five feet high, some even more. In addition, prac- tically all evergreens, both old and new, have been planted in groups, including all the new introductions of Wilson and Purdan. Kalmias in many thousands have been planted and whole hillsides were a pur- ple mass of Scotch heather, which here seems quite at home, and seedlings were springing up in thousands. A compara- tively new feature here is a circular lilac garden about one and one-half acres in area, containing fifty of the finest varieties, several plants of each sort. A similar garden is devoted to ornamental malus. Around the kitchen garden a magnificent hedge of hemlock, some ten feet in height and almost as wide at the base, is to be seen. In the terraced formal gardens were some mag- nificent specimens of Taxus cuspidata ten to twelve feet across and nearly as high, and equally fine plants of the va- riety brevifolia. A hedge of Taxus cus- pidata showed the value of this yew as an ev
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