Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1920 — Beautify the Home. [ARTICLE]

Beautify the Home.

There are so many native shrubs, vines and flowers to be planted about the farm homes that their absence is a deplorable fact. In a recent drive of a thousand miles we saw only four farmhouses where attention had been paid to beautifying them. Naturally, they were noticed. Don’t dot the lawn with fantastic flower beds of annual flowers. Put hardy shrubs around the foundation, the taller growing ones behind. Then In front of these plant the perennial flowers such as iris, crocus, narcissus, peony, sweet william, phlox, etc.. Keep the lawn open. A few ivy or wild grape vines make a hideous outhouse less noticeable. Shrubs can be transplanted In November. Get as much soli with them as possible and tamp the roots firmly in place.—Farm Life.