Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1920 — PLANTS ON CITY LAMP-POSTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLANTS ON CITY LAMP-POSTS

Authorities of Allentown, Pa., Turn Usually Unsightly Objects Into Things of Beauty. Turning the street lamp-posts into things of beauty is the object of the authorities of Allentown, Pa. In that city every lamp-post wears a . hanging-garden effect from spring until late autumn. The flowers and decorative leaf-bearing plants are planted in urn-shaped globes which encircle the lamp-posts some distance below the light?Thecity fatherswho thought of and adopted the flowering lamp-post Idea made a thorough job of beauti-

fying the town by removing all of the overhead telephone and telegraph wires—at feast, in tfie principal streets. Rut Allentown can boast of use as well as beauty. It is the county seat of a farming section which ranks as one of the leading potato producers of the country.—Popular Science Monthly.