The prairie spirit in landscape gardening; what the people of Illinois have done and can do toward designing and planting public and private grounds for efficiency and beauty . 90-91. Which is the Better kind of Accent for the Pi-airie, Vertical or Horizontal—Foreign Poplars or Native Haws?A little accent is a good thing, but how about thirty. Lombardy poplars sur- Some landscape gardeners will never plant the Lombardy poplar on the - - All accent is no accent. Nature. left, the exclamation . urairie. They_sai it makes too strong a co _ _ _ (A hawthorn in bloom.) rounding a city lot? All accen
The prairie spirit in landscape gardening; what the people of Illinois have done and can do toward designing and planting public and private grounds for efficiency and beauty . 90-91. Which is the Better kind of Accent for the Pi-airie, Vertical or Horizontal—Foreign Poplars or Native Haws?A little accent is a good thing, but how about thirty. Lombardy poplars sur- Some landscape gardeners will never plant the Lombardy poplar on the - - All accent is no accent. Nature. left, the exclamation . urairie. They_sai it makes too strong a co _ _ _ (A hawthorn in bloom.) rounding a city lot? All accent is no accent,point out of Illinois scenery. Nature. left, the exclamation , Drairie. it makes too strong a contrast, while the haw and crab delicately Digitizeudy IWeruBoim)^^ * *? y- - -• • -— 3^ THI* PRAIRIE SPIRIT IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING ..m. 92-93. Good Taste in Landscape Gardening consists largely in Self-Restraint about the Showiest Plants in the World *We made the usual mistake of planting too many rare, costly, foreign trees. Finally we cut them out. (The ring in the grass shows one scar.) The When we learned better, two weeping trees equal to the above hid a view. finest specimens in the world are less important than good views.—Wm. C. Egan. life. No wonder we see six trees of it in acity yard where one would be better, for it iseasy to overplant the exquisite thing. How many weeping plants can the averagecity lot contain with good effect? Somecritics say none at all. Others say one—and that in the back yard. Cut-Leaved PlantsT ESS spectacular, perhaps, than columnar-*— or weeping trees are cut-leaved they are not so liable to criticism,and they are supposed to give refinement orelegance to a place. The standard of beautyin this group is the fern-leaved beech. East-ern people often are exceedin
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