Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1919 — OF GREAT BENEFIT TO ALL [ARTICLE]

OF GREAT BENEFIT TO ALL

Important Service Rendered to Community by the Planting of Roadside Fruit Trees. Newspapers of the countfy render Important service to a great cause when they call editorial attention to the misuse of the average and plead for practical and esthetic handling of the opportunity. Each township in America has in this land an opportunity for the establishment of ah arboretum of rare and beautiful trees and shrubs for the benefit of every passer by. Artistic treatment of even the most unsightly roadside, not to speak of portions capable of picturesque handling, wbuld work a transformation in any township and set an example for all the farms affii homesteads in the region. The trimming away of unsightly decay, the covering of bare spots, the cleaning up of mos-quito-haunted pools would be but the beginning of the good* work. The setting out of ornamental "trees and shrubs might easily directly to the roadside superb specimens of ajl our native growths, together with many fine exotics, all carefully marked' (where dbubtful) with both popular and scientific names, as in the finest arboretum in the land.