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Raw Bank that Offends 

 You 



IS there not a raw bank along the roadside which 

 is an eyesore to you from 300 to 365 days in 

 the year? If so, wouldn't you be glad to know 

 how it could be turned into a beauty spot at no 

 expense, or very little? You need not wait for a 

 railroad, a politician, or a committee. Be your 

 own improvement society. 



The plan involving the least outlay of money and 

 effort is to sow seeds of sunflowers and of the wild 

 cucumber vine (Echinocystis lobata), since these are 

 about the cheapest seeds any one can buy. Sun- 

 flowers cost only ten cents a pound. Wild cucum- 

 ber may cost ten cents an ounce, but in my neigh- 

 borhood is a bank on which this vine has run wild 

 and covered about 2,500 square feet. Two chil- 

 dren could collect in one hour there enough seeds 

 to beautify all the raw banks along river, roads, and 

 railways in a city of 60,000 inhabitants. 



I recommend only such seeds as can be sown 

 broadcast without the labor of preparing soil or 

 even raking in the seeds. Obviously the only seeds 

 suitable for such a purpose are very large ones, 

 because they have a food supply big enough to help 

 the young plants during a period of drought. It 

 would be little trouble to soak the seeds over night 

 and sow them during a prolonged wet period. 



The great drawback to the above method is that 

 it presupposes tolerably good soil and moisture 

 conditions, and whenever that much is granted, 

 Nature will generally do the rest. In other words, 

 it cannot be relied upon for the commonest con- 

 ditions, which are the ones that seem desperate to a 

 beginner — viz., dry banks of sand or heavy clay. 



The surest, and in the long run the cheapest, 

 way to hold banks that are too steep to mow con- 

 veniently is to plant them with shrubs and vines 

 that have a genfus for spreading by suckers or 

 underground stems, thus holding the soil and pre- 

 venting landslides and gullies. Shrubs will always 

 hold a bank more effectively, and at less expense 

 than grass, and if you give some thought to the 

 season when each bush or vine is most attractive 

 you can transform these eyesores into beauty spots 

 which will be attractive the year round. 



FOR THE SANDY BANKS 



The sandy bank is generally thought to be a 

 hopeless proposition, because of the scanty plant 

 food, water and humus. But Virginia creeper 

 grows wild in sa'nd dunes, fruits more freely, and 

 takes on new beauties in these hard conditions. 

 Red cedars are also native to the dunes, also pitch 

 pines and the wax or candleberry (Myrica cerijera). 

 These are all native plants but ordinarily it would 

 not be practical for you to dig them. You could 

 probably get them cheaper from a professional 

 collector in southern New Jersey or from some one 

 who makes a specialty of growing seedlings by the 

 millions for the nursery trade. For example, you 

 could get one thousand two-year-old white spruces 

 two or three inches high, for S5; or one hundred pitch 

 pines a foot high at five cents each. Hall's honey- 

 suckle and Rosa Wichuraiana can be had so cheaply 

 from regular nurserymen that you can afford to 

 give them away even to a "soulless corporation" 

 like a "mean old railway company." And think 

 of the pleasure you would get when that staring 

 sandbank is covered with semi-evergreen foliage 

 and fragrant flowers in July! 



The day bank that is sticky during rains and 

 bakes like a brick in a drought, can be covered 



