. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. Landscape Gardening and Platanus orientalis, Oriental Plane. Bed of Evergreens at Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, Phila. Landscape gardening is an art, and cannot be taken up lightly by the novice with the expectation of achieving great success unless he has a natural gift for it. One must have the power of seeing in the mind from the very
. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. Landscape Gardening and Platanus orientalis, Oriental Plane. Bed of Evergreens at Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, Phila. Landscape gardening is an art, and cannot be taken up lightly by the novice with the expectation of achieving great success unless he has a natural gift for it. One must have the power of seeing in the mind from the very beginning not only the appearance of the work when completed, but what the result will be in after years when the trees and shrubs have attained their growth. Natural beauties must be retained or brought out more strongly, vistas opened where obscured by natural growth, or preserved when new plantings are to be made, and trees of both large and small growth located where they will be of the most service. Every style of architecture requires a certain arrangement in the planting that one may be in perfect harmony with the other. Not only, therefore, must one have a gift for creating what may be termed a beautiful picture, he must have as well a thorough practical knowledge of trees and shrubs, that they may be properly placed in the general planting arrangement. How often it is that instead of setting groups of dwarf trees so that an uninterrupted view of some distant point may be secured, large growing ones are carelessly planted in the same situation, or groups of trees that ought to be arranged to produce the effect of a large expanse of lawn, give an entirely opposite result. The Landscape Engineering Department of this firm is under the personal direction of our Mr. J. Franklin Meehan. Through him we prepare and Carry out plans for grading, roadmaking, planting and remodeling of old places, and, in fact, every branch of this work. From our long experience as nurserymen we f
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