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 . rican elm, buttonball, cottonwood, ash,walnut, butternut, tulip tree, hackberry,- coffeetree, mulberry, redbud, and buckeye. Otherplants that intensify the feeling of nearnessto a river are the riverbank grape, wild goose-berry, American bluebell, wild blue phlox,western adders tongue (Erythronium al-bidum), Jacobs ladder, and CoUinsia verna. If you live on drained land that was for-merly a swamp or bog, you may be able
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 . rican elm, buttonball, cottonwood, ash,walnut, butternut, tulip tree, hackberry,- coffeetree, mulberry, redbud, and buckeye. Otherplants that intensify the feeling of nearnessto a river are the riverbank grape, wild goose-berry, American bluebell, wild blue phlox,western adders tongue (Erythronium al-bidum), Jacobs ladder, and CoUinsia verna. If you live on drained land that was for-merly a swamp or bog, you may be able togrow some of the finest products of that scenictype, namely, the bur, scarlet, and swamp whiteoaks, red rhaple, arborvitae, American larch,Nyssa sylvatica (Fig. 68), winterberry, redand black chokeberry, flowering currant, btit-tonbush, wintjrgreen, Rubus hispidus, cinna-mon fern, royal fern, and marsh marigold. If you live on a sandhill or dune, you canmake it a beauty spot instead of a desert byplanting the white ipines (Fig. 77), gray pine,red cedar, bur oak, frost grape (Vitis cordi-folia), chokecherry, and sand cherry. If ? you live on a clay hill you may have. 76. How Prairie Architecture has been Adapted to Woodland 77. White Pine is Adapted to Dunes, Bluffs, and Rocks House put inside the woods—not outside; trees nearest house carefully It also connects these types with the prairie by repeating the horizon. Longer-saved; house made long and low; woodwork painted brown like tree trunks, and lived than the Scotch or Austrian pine, and looks more at home about the farm- rd^r;?r^.tFSiLloydwrifhrSel^*0^^ *= ^^^- ™^= •>= °« THE PRAIRIE SPIRIT IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING 11 feS^^qJlilffW^W ^J wj^^^ ^-^1^^ ^^^^^^^• Z3A k ^^^?to^^ HHBpW^^ ^Wr -, MHk * ^^ 1 lii?^- •* p. ^H ^^^^^^B fe-T^ .
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