27C BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Yes, the comfort ancT pleasures that are possible for au entire family 

 in a yard even though it lie the despised liack yard, are limitless. The 

 man, womaii or child is to be pitied who has no claim on a yard, and 

 the one who has is inexcusable if they make no effort to make it as orna- 

 mental as is possible with the time and means within their power. 



A roomy, well kept lawn reflecting the taste and individuality of its 

 maker is the setting of the jeAvel— the house-and avcII repay all the care 

 spent upon it. 



Tlie fence that surrounds the lawn and tlie gates that lead into it are 

 of great importance. The Imge gate-posts and heavy stone fence that 

 seem to be the full complement of the several-acre lawn of the suburban- 

 ite M^ould be as much out of place on the fraction of an acre lawn as the 

 low wire fence and artistic gate seem enclosing city lawns would be on 

 the farm. And the heavy, close fence or tall hedge is surely out of place 

 anywhere except to keep in or keep out some unsafe person or animals. 



THE YARD AND LAWN. 



BY H. H. LUYSTER, FRANKLIN. 



It is certainly an unusual thing to place an old white haired fellow 

 who has been raised on a farm, and educated in a country school, like 

 myself, on the program of a State meeting, to talk to you about the orna- 

 mentation of the yard and the lawn surrounding the house. 



Do not understand me to say that I regret the fact that I spent the 

 earlier years of my life in th? country, where I received my best im- 

 pressions of home, amid the quiet, gentle, but far-reaching influences 

 surrounding a town in the country. I feel that I have lost nothing by 

 having spent my boyhood days in the country, and largely to that fact 

 I attribute my love for the beanth\s of nature, as shown in leaf, blade, 

 and flowtn-. 



Three things, I think, are essential to the most successful adornment 

 of the yard and lawn, namely, trees, grass and flowers. 



Those of you who were so fortunate as to visit "The White City" 

 during the far-famed "Columbian Exposition" at Chicago, will remember 

 the wondrously beautiful Imildings, bridges, statuary, and streets, all In 

 pure and spotless white. And oh your first entrance, how superbly beauti- 

 ful and grand it all seemed. And so it was. Doubtless, however, you will 

 also recollect as you traversed the streets admiring the ingenuity of man 

 in the construction of those magnificent structures— how, by and by, the 

 eye of the beholder began to weary of the intensely glaring, dazzling 

 brightness. 



