Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1963 — Page 2

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How Does Your Home Look From The Street?

From the street - side, a home should present a pleasing picture that will provide neighbors and yourself with a pleasant feeling of family stability and beautiful living says the American Association of Nurserymen. Such an appeanance can be provided by sound plantings of trees and shrubs that help fit the house into the surrounding landscape, instead of having it look stark and naked, or overgrown. Small homes as well as large can easily be planted to present

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a most pleasing appearance. Natural beauty by the use of trees and shrubs has no limitations — rich or poor can achieve it. You can plant it yourself or have it done by an experienced landscape nurseryman. Stand on the sidewalk at a point opposite your front door and look directly at the house. Draw imaginary lines fr o m where you are standing to the corners of your house Any large trees should be planted outside

of such lines, so your home will present an unbroken view of lawn. Along the foundation in curved beds plant a variety of lowgrowing plants, with just slightly higher plants beside the doorway and grouped at the house corners. Avoid a straightline row of plants along the front of the house. This is poor practice. Vary the plants so that you have evergreens and some flowering plants. In planting trees have at least one flowering tree to bring springtime beauty. Depending on the neighborhood and custom, you may wish a low, or high hedge along the street. Your main objective is to plant a pleasing picture. Take care in the planting, standing off at a distance and observing it to get the effects you wish.

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THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

Are You A “Land-Loser” Instead Os Land beer?

Millions of home owners in the United States “lose” many of the benefits of having their own land by not caring for it properly, or by allowing overgrown shrubs and trees to detract from its beauty and value, says the American Association of Nurserymen. Many home owners appear to the public from the street as if they hate their land by the way they treat it says the association, when it should be a source of pride and inspiration because of its neatness and beauty. Ragged overgrown landscape plants reflect poor housekeeeping, and reduce the resale value of a home while attractive plantings increase the value some 15 to 20 per cent or more. Difference in the price obtainable for raggedly overgrown as compared to lovely planted grounds could reach as high as 30 to 40 per cent, it is said. Best advice is to consult a reliable landscape nurseryman and have him work out a professional plan for increasing the value of the property, the prestige of the owner, as well as the respect of neighbors, with attractive plantings of trees and shrubs, it is stated. Sound landscaping and family garden living not only pays off in pleasure, but in sound real estate valdes. PeifcV sylvania state extension service survey found that .81 per cent of home owners who had land* scaped their homes reported the landscaping had increased the value of the home by one-half up to 10 times or more of the total cost of the planting. SCREEN SORTER Dump jar's ’ .of Scre’ks, bolts, and washers on window screening for sorting. When wanted items are selected, lift screen to funnel rest back into jar.

Kitchen Old? Update With New Range ■ t" K 4 if. . — .. Amm* I g For easy iartaUation this onepiece eleetrie range »eU in between kitchen ea'iineto. Models of this type ean be hung on a wall or set on a cabinet, a« thi» one I*. The convenient, eye-level oven above a pull-out surface cooking top give* a modern look to auyJdtchen. Tired of your old kitchen? One of the new, one-piece electric ranges can update it without expensive remodeling, since they slide into place without costly installation, yet give your kitchen a smooth, built-in look. Requiring no installation beyond being connected with the electric circuit are the free-standing ranges. Some have one or two ovens below the surface elements, some have one oven above and one below. Another range that requires no installation has one or two eye-level ovens. These,can be hung from a wall or set on a cabinet. Built-in units that require a minimum of installation are the “dropins” and “slide-ins” which come with adapter bands to integrate them With cabinets and counter tops. The 1963 electric ranges come in decorator colors, from white and the pastels to brushed chrome and rich coppertones. Their accurate, automatic controls will update your cooking as well as the appearance of your kitchen. - r -

Quality Nurseries Your Dost Det In every area in the country there are quality nurserymen who aim to serve their customers with the best plants and advice it is possible to obtain. Usually, these nurseries have university-trained personnel who are professional horticulturists and landscape architects. The American Association of Nurserymen has stablished standards for nursery stock which it

1963 Ranges Help Women Keep Kitchens Sparkling ■I vF * J Cleaning the new electric range* is “easy as pie” with features such as these pull-out oven interiors with rounded corners. All of the 1963 electric ranges are easier than ever to keep elean.

Women want ranges that are easy to clean—and they’re getting them. Electric cooking has always meant clean cooking, and the 1963 electric ranges make it even cleaner. Improved designs and special easy-to-clean features help keep the new electric ranges cleaner and also make them easier to clean when food does spill. Surface cooking elements are self cleaning, as are the rod-type broil and bake elements in electric ovens and broilers. Surface elements lift up, and some can be removed for easy access to the reflector bowls beneath. These, as well as the adapter rings around the surface elements, lift out for washing at the sink or in the dishwasher. Tilt tops on some models are another easyclean feature. Recessed tops and cook-tops with rims help prevent food that’s acci-

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will be wise for the average purchaser to consider. These standards mean a more uniform better, plant — an adequate rooot system.

dentally spilled from getting into crevices or running onto the floor. Control knobs pull off for sudsing, and smooth enamel and other fin-1* ishes are easy to keep spanking clean. Ovens on the 1963 electric ranges are also easier to clean. Some have interiors that pull out; others are designed to be completely lined with replaceable aluminum foil. Oven interiors have rounded comers, and dirt-catching cracks, crannies and seams have been virtually eliminated. Oven racks and broiler reflectors are removable, and some of the selfcleansing heating elements lift up or down while others are removable to give access to the entire interior. Some oven doors lift off for washing at the sink. Others drop down to make it easy to reach inside.

or ball of earth as the case may bp, will as sufficient branching for the size of plant and many other attributes of quality.

Complete Your Landscaping So you think you have a complete landscape job! Here’s what complete landscaping accomplishes for the home owner, according to the American Association of Nurserymen. Check your property to see what you lack. 1. Good lanstaping makes a lovely picture of the house from the street. It ties house and land together by use of trees and shrli b s to provide q pleasing “lived-in” look to the house. 2. Sound landscaping includes a garden or outdoor living area, or patio planted for outdoor recreation, dining and entertaining. 3. Proper landscaping includes trees and shrubs that supply adequate shade and privacy to the living area. In locations where homes are exposed toroid winds in winter, proper planting of windbreaks otters more comfort on the property and lower fuel billls. It is cold winds that run up the fuel bills and if the house is protected by evergreen trees fuel costs are kept lower. 4. A well - planted property should provide plenty of cut flowers for use inside the home. More varieties of trees and shrubs and annual and perennial plants are planted now than at any time in the history of this country.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1963

FOR YOUNGSTERS Raise a wooden chair for youngsters by screwing four rubber-tip-ped door bumpers into bottom end of legs. Bumpers can easily be unscrewed when no longer needed. NO more tangles An empty adhesive tape spool makes a perfect storage kit for a plumb of rohalk line When wound around spool and snapped back into original cover, the line stays dry, «clean and can’t scatter chalk through tool box. Or, hang it up on a nail! PAINTING DESIGNS When painting small designs on flat surfaces, draw designs on masking tap and cut out with a razor blade. The tape can then be pressed into position, and used as a painting guide. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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