LEWIS AND VALENTINE COMPANY - WHERE THE TREES CAME FROM

 LEWIS AND VALENTINE COMPANY

THROUGH our organization of complete operating  units in all the principal cities between Boston and Palm Beach and as far west as Chicago, the choicest of plant materials local to each section are made available to all through a central stock department. we have assembled at 15 points east of the Mississippi River specimen material from over a thousand private estates and three hundred nurseries.

PLANT TO GAIN 20 YEARS
CHOICEST PLANT MATERIAL NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU

In our new stock catalog now ready for distribution you will find listed many choice materials that you did not know were available. For years our fifteen associated offices have scoured the country, purchasing specimen material from thousands of old estates, hundreds of commercial nurseries, and native fields. The result has been a tremendous listing of varieties and sizes, which has been assembled and collated through a central exchange into an orderly and comprehensive register of Mother Nature’s choicest offerings from the territory east of the Mississippi River. 

The 15 office locations for the firm - Ardmore, Pa., Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Morristown, N. J., Pittsburgh, Roslyn, L. I., Winston-Salem, N. C., West Palm Beach, Fla.

A planting on the estate of E. T. Stotesbury, Esq., Chestnut Hill, Pa.

A planting on the estate of E. T. Stotesbury, Esq., Chestnut Hill, Pa.
   Jacques Greber, Esq., landscape architect
Landscape Planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

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CEDAR TREES PLANTED ON THE ESTATE OF H. H. ROGERS ESQ.

Cedar trees panted on the estate of H. H. Rogers Esq., at Southampton L. I.
Olmsted Brothers landscape architects.
Landscape Planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

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BOXWOOD PLANTINGS AT "KNOLE"

This garden, which has the atmosphere of an English Manor garden, is on the estate of Bradley Martin, Esq., at Old Westbury, L. I.
 Landscape Planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

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"Whitemarsh Hall" - an autogiro proves its worth.....

   

PHOTOGRAPHS BY COURTESY OF PITCAIRN AIRCRAFT, INC.

   Above the E. T. Stotesbury estate at Whitemarsh, near Philadelphia, Pa., an autogiro proves its worth as a place-to-place air vehicle. After selecting a likely spot in which to land, it sinks slowly and almost vertically to the ground. When leave-taking time comes, the host speeds his parting guest, serene in the knowledge that his tree-tops and turrets will be undamaged, for the giro rises at a steep angle into the air when it departs.

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The Shady Garden at "Whitemarsh Hall"

Boxwood hedging bordering the shady garden on the new estate of E. T. Stotesbury, Esq., Chestnut Hill, Pa.   Jacques Greber, Esq., landscape architect
Landscape Planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

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Formal Garden at "Whitemarsh Hall"

Landscape planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

   On April 28th 1921 writing from his Philadelphia Chestnut Street home, Edward Townsend Stotesbury responds to Lewis & Valentine:  I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th, and it gives me great pleasure to state that the work which you have done for me at Chestnut Hill has been most satisfactory. 

Hoping that you will be able to secure additional work,  I am 

Yours very truly,

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A Section of the Garden of H. H. Rogers, Esq. Southampton, L. I.

A section of the garden of H. H. Rogers, Esq. Southampton, L. I. Hundreds of large trees were planted creating an immediate effect.
Olmsted Brothers, landscape architects. Walker & Gillette, architects.
Landscape planting by Lewis & Valentine Company.  

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JULIETTE WINDOW FROM THE COUNTRY HOUSE OF H. H. ROGERS, ESQ., SOUTHAMPTON, L. I.

A DETAILED PLANTING ON THE ESTATE OF H. H. ROGERS, ESQ., SOUTHAMPTON; WALKER & GILLETTE, ARCHITECTS; OLMSTED BROTHERS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS.  AN ARCHITECTURAL EFFECT CAN BE OBTAINED BY THE USE OF THESE TALL TREES THAT CANNOT BE OBTAINED IN ANY OTHER WAY.
Landscape planting by Lewis & Valentine Company

  The Juliette window was located off the main stair landing and overlooked the arrival courtyard. Click HERE for more on "Black Point".