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 . tural forthe beginner to think that flowers are moreimportant than foliage, and to the heart theyare. Consequently people often plant onlygolden bells, spirea, mock orange, lilac, andhydrangea, all of which are lovely in flower,but have little autumn color, and are devoidof color all winter. A week or two of bloomis about all you get from the ordinary shrub,and what you live with for six months isfoliage. Consequently,
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 . tural forthe beginner to think that flowers are moreimportant than foliage, and to the heart theyare. Consequently people often plant onlygolden bells, spirea, mock orange, lilac, andhydrangea, all of which are lovely in flower,but have little autumn color, and are devoidof color all winter. A week or two of bloomis about all you get from the ordinary shrub,and what you live with for six months isfoliage. Consequently, landscape gardenershave a saying that foliage is more importantthan flowers. The people are right in feelingthat the average home place does not havecolor enough. Right here is where the expertplanner does better than the beginner. Hegives you more color thruout the year, butdistributes it more evenly by using shrubsthat have the triple attractions of flower,autumn color, and brightly colored berries orbranches. Thus, on a well-planned place every-ones taste in color naturally becomes refined,and the eyes are opened to the quieter delightsof form and texture in 87-88. Which Looks Better on Prairie, Long-Lived White Pine or—Consider the value of these pines for windbreaks and_winte;- beauty pn. thisIowa farm. There is enough roll here for drainage, whic^^^^ji^i Short-Lived Norway Spruce Cheap, shpijur, and quick. Quick Growers QUITE as laudable as the universal love ofcolor is the universal desire for quick re-sults, since speed has something to do withefficiency. Moreover, the quickest-growingplants generally cost the least, and are there-fore doubly attractive to -beginners. Unfor-tunately, the speediest plants are generally ofshort-lived efficiency or beauty. For example,the farmers must protect house and stock fromthe winter wind as soon as possible, so theycommonly plant Norway spruce, Austrian pine,and Scotch pine, which generally lose theirmost valuable branch
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