Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — Detroit Will Make Garden Spots of Its Alleys [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Detroit Will Make Garden Spots of Its Alleys

DETROIT. —Not the desert, but the alleys of Detroit, will be made to blossom as the rose, also the morning glory, the clematis, even the wild cucumber, if the plan inaugurated by the home and school gardening committee of the Twentieth,Century club, of which Mrs.

George G. Caron is chairman, receives the hearty co-operation of the homeloving citizens of Detroit. An ordinance has recently been passed which provides for cleaner alleys, and ' the gardening committee wish to make a pleasure of duty, and stimulate Interest in the beautifying, as well as the cleaning, of the alleys. So in the fall there are to be prizes for the best alleys in various blocks

throughout the city, where the citizens care to enter the contest. The planting of flowers along the fences, inside and out, and the training of vines to hide ugly buildings on the alleys will be part of the scheme. Phillip Breitmeyer has given SIOO in prizes, and a like amount wUI be given by the Twentieth Century club. Any city block where the garden markers wish to organize may have the service and advice of Leon B. Gardner, who has been secured by the club to assist the w’ork of forming community gardens. It is the desire of the club to stimulate an esthetic Interest in beautifying property on the part of homemakers, as well as to encourage the children to plant gardens of their own.