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the immediate revenues — it should not be diffi- 

 cult to prove that provision made for planting 

 and the planting itself are both wise invest- 

 ments that will not fail to yield substantial div- 

 idends. 



EXAMPLES OF PLANTING 



Let us take, as a basis to illustrate what can 

 be done, the sort of lot one finds oftenest in the 

 residence sections of cities. In one of the 

 larger cities of the Middle "West there is a 

 small home on a lot forty feet wide and one 

 hundred and fifty feet deep. To be exact, the 

 house is situated twenty feet from the property 

 line, four feet from the north line of the lot, ten 

 feet from the south line and fifty feet from the 

 west line. Around the porch, screening the 

 foundations, are dwarf shrubs and ferns ; along 

 the south line of the house, in a border two feet 

 wide between the walk and the house, there are 

 lilies of various species growing among funkias 

 or "plantain" lilies — here again the brick 

 foundations are entirely hidden from view. 

 Boston ivy climbs up the pillars of the porch, 

 and porch boxes are filled with flowering and 

 foliage plants and vines. On the north side are 

 more ferns and a few shrubs and these in their 



