THE "ILLINOIS WAY" OF BEAUTIFYING THE FARM 



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invest $100 in plans and planting in such a way that it will add 

 $500 to $ 1,000 to the salable value of your home in five or ten 

 years? Can you make as big a profit by putting that money 

 into house, barn, or hogs? The plan is the most important thing 

 of all! 



HOW TO PLAN YOUR HOME GROUNDS 



The ideal is to have a first-class landscape gardener, because 

 a beginner cannot do so well as an expert, and landscape gar- 

 dening is a life-study. It is a fine art, like architecture, music, 

 poetry, or painting. The landscape gardener costs more at 

 the start, but is cheaper in the end, because he saves you all 

 the bother and expense of rearranging everything when you 

 learn better. He will usually save his fee on nursery stock 

 alone by buying the right kinds and getting them at wholesale 

 rates. Nearly every nursery of national reputation now has a 

 landscape department, and most plans involving $100 or less 

 are made in this way. Some of this work is good, but there are 

 unworthy men in every line of business, and some do not rise 

 above the temptation to specify four plants where one will do, 

 or to use only their own stock, or to scatter plants in the gaudy 

 way. 



Can't you plan your own grounds with the aid of this cir- 

 cular? If you prefer to have experts submit plans, you can 

 check their value by seeing how well they provide for every 

 need mentioned in the first sentence of each paragraph in this 

 circular. No book can ever tell you just how to plan your place, 

 for no two places are or should be alike, and ready-made plans 

 are of little or no value. 



HOW TO GET A FREE ILLUSTRATED LECTURE 



You can get a free lecture, illustrated by colored lantern- 

 slides, called "The Illinois Way of Beautifying the Farm," by 

 applying to Wilhelm Miller, University of Illinois, Urbana. He 

 will send you a box containing about fifty slides, with self- 

 explanatory captions, so that you can read them to a local audi- 

 ence and thus avoid all lecturer's fees and traveling expenses. 

 The only cost is the express both ways, which is about $i. 

 Thus, the small rural communities can have an entertainment 

 worth at least $i a seat at a cost of one-half to five cents a 



person. If there are 1,000 farmers in your neighborhood, by 

 thorough advertising you can get 200 to turn out, and you can 

 persuade 100 to sign the Australian ballots (see back cover), 

 which are practically promises to do some ornamental plant- 

 ing within a year. By organizing and "following up," you can 

 get the farmers to spend an average of $10 the first year, for 

 nearly every farmhouse needs foundation planting. Copies 

 of the "Australian Ballot" will be supplied, and can serve as 

 programs. Every farmer can take home an extra copy and 

 nail it up where it will remind him daily of the ideals he intends 

 to realize this year. 



THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS CIRCULAR 



We are indebted to the J. Horace McFarland Co., Harrisburg, Pa., 

 for Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 23, 24, 36 to 40, 42, 45, 47 to 50, 

 55 to 58, 60 to 64, 66 to 69, 72 to 74, 76 to 82, 103, 104, 110, and 112. To 

 N. R. Graves for Figs. 41, 44, 71, and 83. To L. E. Foglesong for Figs. 

 87, 96, 97, and 98. To Henry Fuermann & Sons for the front cover and 

 for Figs. 3, 65, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 106, 108, and 109. To Wm. Robinson 

 for Fig. 4 from photograph by George Champion. To E. J. Hall for Fig. 

 7. To Mrs. Flora Sims for Figs. 11, 31, 43, and 89. To Prof. J. W. Lloyd 

 for Figs. 15, 16, and 54. To the U. S. Department of Agriculture for Figs. 

 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 91, and 92. To The Decatur Review for Figs. 18, 23, and 

 24. To Professor B.S. Pickett for Figs. 20, 88, and 90. To The Macmillan 

 Co. for the use of Figs. 21, 22, and 53. To Arno H. Nehrling for Figs. 29, 

 30, 35, and 86. To the H. C. White Co. for the hawthorn used in Fig. 32. 

 To A. W. Bryant for Figs. 46, 75, 84, and 85. To W. C. Egan for Figs. 51 

 and 52. To B. A. Strauch for Fig. 59. To Chester M. Whitney for Fig. 70. 

 To Loring Underwood for Figs. 93 and 94. To R. E. Brand for Fig. 95. To 

 A. G. Eldredge for Fig. 107. To the Department of Horticulture for Fig. 

 85. To Miss B. J. Colwell for Fig. 8. 



THE ILLINOIS WAY OF PLANTING 

 SCHOOL GROUNDS 



You can make fifty dollars' worth of improvement in the 

 looks of your school at a cost of ten dollars, and also bring 

 back the birds, by adopting the "Illinois Way." 



Here is a simple scheme for making permanent improvement 

 in your school grounds, which is practical in city or country, 

 even if you have no technical knowledge of botany or horti- 

 culture, and even if you have no money! Plant shrubs and vines 

 native to Illinois against the joundations of your school. Ten 



Parlor tjnntf /foonj 



98. A Foundation Planting of Illinois Shrubs and Vines 

 The sort of thine that any farmer can do without cash outlay by collecting the plants 

 of his own neighborhood. He will get better results by buying nursery-grown plants of the 

 same species at a cost of $20 to $40. The arrows point toward vines. 



KEY TO THE ILLINOIS FOUNDATION PLANTING 

 (Explaining Fig. 98) 



1. Maple-leaved arrow-wood (Viburnum acerifolium). 



2. High bush cranberry (Viburnum Opulus). 



3. Hazelnut (Corylus americana). 



4. Gray dogwood (Cornus candidissima or paniculata). 



5. Downy-leaved arrow-wood (Viburnum pubescens). 



6. Buffalo currant (Ribes aureum). 



7. Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia). 



8. Silky cornel (Cornus Amomum or sericea) 



9. Red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera). 



10. Black chokeberry (Aronia nigra). 



11. Shadbush (Amelanchier Botryapium). 



12. Scarlet sumac (Rhus glabra). 



13. Sweet-scented sumac (Rhus aromatica). 



14. Illinois or dwarf sumac (Rhus copallina). 



15. Ferns and asters (Aster, etc.). 



16. Sheepberry (Viburnum I.entago). 



17. Illinois or prairie rose (Rosa setigera). 



18. Round-leaved dogwood (Cornus circinata). 



19. Northern fox grape (Vitis Labrusca). 



20. Summer grape (Vitis sestivalis). 



21. Frost grape (Vitis cordifolia). 



22. Trumpet creeper (Tecoma radicans). 



23. Climbing bittersweet (Celastrus scandens). 



24. Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). 



25. Virginia virgin's bower (Clematis virginiana). 



