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 . that have extremely showyfoliage, like the golden-leaved elder, goldenmock orange, golden ninebark, and goldenprivet. Why do people who once grew theseplants call them yellow journalists ? Is thereanything essentially criminal or low in them?On the contrary, they will produce more colorat less expense than flowers, and at a distancethey look like flowers. The first time we trackdown one of these gorgeous color masses an
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 . that have extremely showyfoliage, like the golden-leaved elder, goldenmock orange, golden ninebark, and goldenprivet. Why do people who once grew theseplants call them yellow journalists ? Is thereanything essentially criminal or low in them?On the contrary, they will produce more colorat less expense than flowers, and at a distancethey look like flowers. The first time we trackdown one of these gorgeous color masses anddiscover it is a showy-leaved variety of somefamiliar shrub, we are greatly interested. Thenext time there is a little disappointment tofind that the wonderful new flowers are onlyleaves. After half a dozen experiences of thekind people begin to feel tricked, and some areso unkind as to call it a cheap way of mak-ing a big show of color. Flowers are finerproducts of nature than abnormally coloredleaves. For example, coleus is probably themost eflficient colorist the poor man can buy,and crotons are perhaps the most brilliantfoliage plants that the wealthy put in their.
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