CHAPTER VIII 



HOME PLANTING AND LANDSCAPE GAPvDENING 



A good city can no more successfully be imposed from without, than a 

 good character can be imposed upon an individual. A beautiful city and a 

 beautiful public life must be the manifestation of the right spirit within. 

 Therefore it is primarily incumbent upon every one interested in what has 

 so happily been called ff the forward movement" to develop a character 

 (wholesome), a love for truth and righteousness, a Christian grace. As we 

 grow in knowledge and grace, we will reflect it in our public life ; and recip- 

 rocally, as our public life advances, it will be reflected in higher personal 

 standards. 



A Carnegie may build a library, a Marshall Field construct a great 

 museum, a Rockefeller found a great university, but our cities must be built 

 by the people themselves. There is no magic to be availed of ; no Pauline 

 conversion to be expected. Our municipal salvation must be wrought out 

 patiently, carefully, ofttimes in fear and trembling, and not by any one or 

 two, but by the whole community. C. R. WOODRUFF 



Just as the State grew out of the family, so the beautiful city can only be 

 the outcome of the beautiful home. ALEXANDRA BLUMBERG 



In general the physical features of a landscape supply the 

 skeleton which life clothes with beauty of form and color, and, 

 like skeletons, lifeless deserts or mountains are gloomy and 

 forbidding. Without plants the animation imparted by animal 

 life is also lacking, and the silence and loneliness of such scenes 

 become oppressive. Hence the living factors which add attrac- 

 tiveness and charm to home and country are legitimate topics 

 for study. 



" Beautiful America " is the watchword of a national move- 

 ment represented in organized form by the American Civic 

 Association. This organization stands for more beautiful homes 

 and country roads, more beautiful towns, cities, streets, and 



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