ON LAWN BEAUTIFICATION 



No effort that you could bestow would have a 

 larger influence toward the beautification of your 

 next season's lawn, and the lightening of your 

 labors in next season's garden than that devoted 

 to the destruction of this season's crop of weeds, 

 wherever found. 



FLOWERS; AND THE DISPOSITION OF TREES 



Probably color is the most attractive thing 

 about flowers. Usually solid colors are more 

 attractive but harmonious combinations are almost 

 as valuable. 



A graceful form probably comes next in 

 attractiveness. 



Size and abundance of bloom next. Size does 

 not always happen to be an advantage. Some 

 flowers, as the heaths, are attractive because of the 

 smallness of the blossoms. In this case the small 

 size really adds gracefulness to the plant. Where 

 the blossoms are small more are needed to make 

 a good effect, so improvements on flowers with 

 small blossoms should be made along this line 

 where needed. 



Everyone must be his own judge of harmony in 

 the colors of plants. Most fairly well educated 

 persons have a sense of harmony to direct them to 

 the combination of colors to work for. 



White is harmonious with all colors. A deep 

 red is not harmonious with blue, except sometimes 



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