Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — Lamp-post Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Lamp-post Gardens.

Dame rumor says Minneapolis is out-classing all other cities in utilizing flowers to ornament the business streets. Last year window boxes and hanging gardens were introduced in the shopping thoroughfares, and there were more than 15,000 feet beautified in that way This year, by private subscriptions, a fund has been raised to- put 500 miniature gardens on aa many lamp-posts and to keep them bright with blooms. “Flowers on lamp-posts would astound New Yorkers,” says the New York Evening Mail, “and would certainly set the kids to climbing. How long would the lamp-post gardens last on the east sider’