Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — CONSIDER THE GARDEN PATH [ARTICLE]

CONSIDER THE GARDEN PATH

Matter Worthy of Careful Thought When Improvements Around Home Are Being Planned. It is the question of paths that comes to the foye when garden improvements are being discussed. There are not many gardens In which 1 the paths could not be improved, either in their sustance or their relation to surrounding things. They Require as careful consideration as the beds and borders or the lawn In the making of new gardens. Turf paths are deservedly popular if they be something more than narrow strips of grass. The latter are ineffective and troublesome. But a wide turf path kept neatly both in surface and edge Is a delight, especially when it runs beside or between broad masses of flowers or well-group-ed ornamental shrubs. It would be better for the garden-maker, however, not to Indulge in this fancy unless he be prepared either to keep the paths in order himself or to pay for the necessary labor. Good paths of stone or brick are a never-failing delight, but bricks are difficult to obtain—more difficult now than at any time in memory.