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 . at, for purposes of sentiment, we maycall it the Illinois creeper. He has two holescut in the concrete sidewalk, and plants hissouvenirs of Illinois. To him they may recallthe parents that are gone, or they may remindhim of the day when he is to shut up shopfor good and retire to a country home. Thepassers-by know nothing of all this, but theyare glad to see some sign of country beautyin the city. They say, Life is not
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 . at, for purposes of sentiment, we maycall it the Illinois creeper. He has two holescut in the concrete sidewalk, and plants hissouvenirs of Illinois. To him they may recallthe parents that are gone, or they may remindhim of the day when he is to shut up shopfor good and retire to a country home. Thepassers-by know nothing of all this, but theyare glad to see some sign of country beautyin the city. They say, Life is not all dollarsto that man. Can such simple plantings be called resto-rations in any important sense? Certainly, ifthey honestly express the individuals loveof the local scenery, combined with hislove of home, and town, and state. Restora-tion is fundamentally an act of the spirit;the scale of operations is incidental. Ifthere is space or money available only fora pair of Illinois roses beside the front door,anything more is pretense. The essential thingis to plant some permanent reminder of thenative beauty, and the cost should alwaysbe well within ones means. A person may. 37-38. Scene of a Woodlot Restoration in Vermilion County, where the Aim is Typified by these Illinois Bluebells Like many other farmers, I must plead guilty to harming the beauty of woodlots by cutting out shrubs and letting animals destroy the flowers Butnow restocking this grove. This process costs a good deal mnt;e than savine the original ground-covig;^ince I have no business but farming and livsyear round, I feel that my family is entitled to some of ^iJfW^f^^^ iSv^nm&rOSQfP^^^^^^^^^^ J- Sconce wers. But I amrilling and live on the farm theSidell, Illinois. THE PRAIRIE SPIRIT IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING II prefer to have foreign plants in his gardenbut he must care enough about the nativekinds to plant some of them in the publicpart of his property. For restoration meansmore than mere gardening—more than the
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