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in park dress cannot be overestimated; if proper and timely
provision is made from two to five years in advance. A
universal saving of cost and advantage will be affected, both in
reduction of first cost of young plants and the decreased
cost in the work planting young well rooted and grown shrubs
or trees, as also the large swing incurred to the decreased
percentage of death. It is also of no little importance,
a larger and more suitable assortment of the most choice and
desirable varieties, than is ordinarily possible, and without which
the best results for the least money cannot be expected in park
improvements. To effectually meet this condition with timely
suggestions the accompanying list of hardy trees and shrubs
is submitted, and if such meets with your approbation,
must be ordered now for the fall shipment and winter planting
This list comprises 62772 plants 4000 of which are trees of 58
kinds and 184 varieties, and 22,775 shrubs of 114 kinds of 431 varieties
The nursery cost of the whole amount is 427.48
Duty on plants is 40% 171.00
Approximate freight and charges 150.00
total 748.88
or $1.19[1/3] per hundred delivered
These same plants one year later could not be bought for $10.00
per hundred in this country, or for all $6270.00
Indeed, if the planting of very common plants for a square of
only two to three acres in extent, would readily cost the entire saved
for the 62 thousnad trees and shrubs, while many of these could be
increased by cuttings, layer of by division, thus establishing a
permant stock of the most valuable and desirable kinds, as
well as rare trees and shrubs. One half of first cost