THE "ILLINOIS WAY" OF BEAUTIFYING THE FARM 



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105. The "Illinois Way" of Landscape Gardening Is Not a Mere Dream It Really Exists Now 



Here is a part of the famous "prairie river" in Humboldt Park, Chicago, with a miniature cataract modeled after those in the Rock River, and a bank full of yellow, daisy-like 

 flowers, e.g., compass plants and coneflowers, symbolizing the vast sheets of composite flowers that once glorified the prairie state. (Designed by Jens Jensen.) 



water the shrubs during the summer. A teacher who hasn't schools need foundation planting, why native shrubs are best, 

 spunk enough to do this much would better quit. why the gaudy style is objectionable, and why the "Illinois 



The Arbor and Bird Day Manual for 1914 explains why Way" is better. 



1 06. You Can Restore and Intensify the "Local Color" on Your Farm 



The people of Chicago have created at great expense the sort of thing every farmer can enjoy for nothing. This prairie river landscape was designed by Jensen, and planted with 

 common Illinois flowers, e.g., swamp rose mallow, blue flag, water-lily, calamus, phlox, etc. 



