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THE "ILLINOIS WAY" OF BEAUTIFYING THE FARM 



87-88. Trees Will Make Your Place More Salable! 



"This house cost no more than the other and was better in some important ways, 

 but it had no trees in the yard. We wanted our children to have a shady playground 

 before they grew up. So 



8. Every Home Should Have an "Illinois Border" 



Mr. J. Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, Pa., has a "dead 

 line" on his home grounds beyond which no plant is tolerated 

 that is not a native of Pennsylvania. Nothing will add more to 

 an honest state pride than a border of Illinois shrubs on every 

 farm lawn. In April you can have the bloom of red bud; in 

 May, the arrow-wood and sheepberry; in June, the prairie rose, 

 high bush cranberry, lead plant, and false indigo; in July, but- 

 tonbush and arborescent hydrangea; in August, the shining and 

 staghorn sumachs and Hercules' club; in September, witch- 

 hazel; while all winter you can enjoy the red berries of the high 

 bush cranberry and the red stems of the Illinois rose. 



While the shrubs are getting their growth, why not fill some 

 of the spaces between them with famous prairie flowers that 



89. Our New Winter View 90. Our Old Winter View 



When our family grew too large for the house that we sold to the Picketts we had to move to a big lot that was 

 tcly bare. 1 he contrast was so painful that we would gladly have paid $3,000 in cold cash if we could have moved all 

 reis and shrubs. To reproduce as nearly as possible what had been planted before our time would have cost $1,200. 



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We bought this house and have never regretted it. The original cost of plans and 

 planting was about $30, and the trees saved us twelve to seventeen years of waiting." 

 (Signed) Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Pickett, Urbana, III. 



have found their way into the gardens of the world? In spring 

 you can have the prairie violet, sharp-leaved beard tongue, 

 purple poppy-mallow. In summer will bloom the gaillardias, 

 long-headed and purple concflower, rough ox-eye, mealy sage, 

 compass and cup plants, and Pitcher's sage. In autumn you 

 can have the showy linear-leaved sunflowers, the gray-hended 

 coneflower, the Kansas gay feather, and Stokes' aster. You 

 need not rob Nature or waste precious time in hunting Illinois 

 flowers, for practically every plant mentioned in this circular 

 can be bought from nurserymen; and nursery-grown plants 

 usually give better results than collected stock because they are 

 better prepared to stand the shock of transplanting. If you 

 cannot appreciate the beauty of common wild flowers, see Figs. 

 81 and 82, and read "The Religion of the Prairie" on inside 

 back cover. 



THE CHILDREN'S IDEAL A 

 PERMANENT COUNTRY HOME 



What do the children on Illinois 

 farms most desire? Do you wish to 

 become Wall Street millionaires, and 

 live the feverish life of a great arti- 

 ficial city? Or do you think that the 

 finest way to live is to have a perma- 

 nent country home? The highest type 

 of life yet invented, in the opinion 

 of many, is that of the English squire 

 at his best. All over this world there 

 are younger sons who are working 

 to realize just one ideal to go back 

 to, England and make a permanent 

 home, not in London, but in the coun- 

 try. Why not a race of real Ameri- 

 can country gentlemen, not mere city 

 folks who spend summers on extrava- 

 gant country estates? Already we 

 have them in New England. Witness 

 the four Thayer places at Lancaster, 

 Mass.; also dozens of southern homes. 

 Col. F. O. Lowden, of Oregon, Illinois, 

 lives in the country the year round, 

 and boasts that he makes his farm 

 pay. Mr. Henry M. Dunlap, of Savoy, 

 and Mr. Harvey J. Sconce, of Sidell, 



