Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1911 — Fred King Proves Fine Landscape Artist at Winona. [ARTICLE]

Fred King Proves Fine Landscape Artist at Winona.

Rensselaer -beys, who try, always make good and every few days word that is pleasing' comes to us about 1 some lad who has gone out Into the world and done it some good. Fred King has charge of the floral gardens at Lake Winona. Fred seems to have a natural ability along that line and he has made* beautiful Winona more beautiful than ever before. When a fellow starts out to do something and succeeds his work is sure to attract attention and the Warsaw Daily Union has observed that Fred King has done some fine landscaping stunts at Winona, his work showing him to be an artist as well as a young man of industry. One bed of carpet bedding is 160 feet in length and on one side is the word “Winona” and on the other side the letters “95 and ’ll,” the .first and present years of the assembly. Visitors have fairly gone wild over the artistic design. The bed is 23 feet in length and there are 20,000 plants. in it. The cost was about SI,OOO. The reporter for the Union employs the following language to further describe the landscaping: “Have you seen what the landscape artist has done to the big flower bed? You may well envy me the privilege of looking at those graceful letters, gorgeously illuminated with foliage and flowers. Fred King is little of stature, but when it comes to designing a mammoth flora) pillow he goes some. That fellow learned his profession at Winona Agricultural college, and I guess President Breckenrtdge has a right to be proud of him.’’ Fred is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King, of the King Floral Co., of Rensselaer, and; his friends here will be pleased to learn of his great success.