Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

TREES COMPLETE THE HOME Importance of Proper Shrubbery la Becoming More and More Recognized. The primary object of settling the state was to make homes, not to make fortunes or increase the taxable wealth of the county or state. One can have a shelter or abode without trees, but no home which will appeal to the wife, and to which the children will look back .with fond remembrances in after years is truly a home without the sense of beauty, repose and protection afforded by trees and shrubbery. The trees and shrubbery should bo located on the grounds to give certain effects or make a part of a living pictifre. The fruit orchard can be plant* ed at regular Intervals, in order to be conveniently cultivated and to use fully the ground occupied, but the trees in the yard should not be spaced like orchard trees; they should be grouped, ih order to make vistas, screen unsightly outbuildings, afford shade where needed, add touches of color to the picture, provide a pleasing “sky line,” and to lend variety and interest to the home surroundings. Trees and shrubbery are the setting of the jewel; the quality of the jewel is not dependent upon its size, but upon the spirit, the purity, the harmony which dwells within. Yet nojewel is shown to best advantage without a suitable setting, and: no home is fully a home without its setting of trees and shrubs.