Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

BEAUTIFY HOME WITH VINES Wise Builder Well Knows the Value of This Cheap and Pretty Ornamentation. The costliest and least satisfactory way to make your home look "different” is to load the house with ornamentation. The next poorest bargain is to scatter all over your lawn flashy trees and shrubs, especially the cutleafed, weeping and variegated kinds, for this will make your place look just like every beginner’s in every city the world-over. The best way to put personality and brilliancy and color into home grounds is to have a different set of vines for every house. One place will have Virginia creepers, trumpet honeysuckle, and bittersweet. The next place will have wild grape, wild clematis, and rose. Both will be beautiful the year round, and neither need cost a cent, because you can dig the plants from the open.

Whfle you are waiting for the permanent vines to grow, you can’cover your porch the first year, without spending a cent, by sowing seeds of wild cucumber vine or collecting seeds of morning glory in regions where it runs wild. In the garden cities of England, such as Boumville and Letchwdrth, which are the most beautiful of their kind in the world, many thousands of dollars have been saved by building very plain houses, and providing different sets of vines for every house.

Ready for the Vines.