Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — EMPTY LOTS MADE TO BLOOM [ARTICLE]

EMPTY LOTS MADE TO BLOOM

Denver’s School Garden Crusad? Is In. tended to Turn Them All into Patches of Beauty. Denver is= carrying on a school garden crusade that is expected to make a beauty spot of every empty lot In that city. Already the results are said to be remarkable. Houston has thousands of vacant lots—more of them probably than any other city of our size in the country—and they tire not things of Few of them are at all presentable, but they are ever present. Some there are that are examples of the loveliness that any vacant space may be made to show, but these are few... Yet it is easier to make a lot beautiful here than anywhere else in the country. There is no excuse for a single ugly spot in any city.