XURSERTMEX — OnCHARDISTS 47 



Assorted Evergreens to Protect the Home and Beautify Grounds. 



Own Your Own Home and 

 Beautify Your Surroundings 



By G. Hale Harrison 



G. Hale Harrison is the chief salesman for our large frait projects, 

 in which capacity he come- in touch wit'.i the markets of the covmtry. 

 Most of our fruit is sold direct to the distributors, although a portion 

 goes through some of the large fruit exchanges. 



SOMETHING more than a decade ano a bulletin entitled 

 "Beautifying the Home Grounds'' was issued by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. I cannot refrain from 

 quoting certain paragraphs which appeared therein, and which 

 have a direct bearing on the planting of trees and shrubs on 

 home grounds : 



"The appropriate use of trees, shrubs, and vines in the adom- 

 3ient of city, village, suburban or country home grounds gives a 

 charm and beauty which is interesting and pleasing to passers-by 

 as well as to the occupants of the house. Plants are a means of 

 expressing restfidness and beauty ; their changing aspect with 

 the succession of the seasons heightens their pleasing effect and 

 relieves monotony. 



"In arranging home grounds .the aim shnuld be to hide, by 

 means of trees and shrubbery, all objectionable buildings or por- 

 tions of the place, and also to shut from view all unsightly 

 objects maintained by neighbors. Locate the trees and shrubs so 

 as to allow an uninterrupted line of vision where the outlook is 

 pleasing, and so locate the plantings as to afford the greatest 

 protection from winds and undesirable surroundings consistent 

 with good landscape effects. 



"Pleasing effects in shrubbery plantations come from massing 

 sorts so as to produce a normal display every year. Shrubs 

 should be studied not alone from the standpoint of the size, color, 

 and production of bloom, but the time of leafing should also be 

 noted. The color of the leaves during summer as well as in 

 autumn is also important, but most important of all is the time 

 the leaves fall, whether early or late, or whether they remain on 

 all winter." 



The whole bulletin is really devoted to showing the advantages 

 of making the outside of a home fully as beautiful as the inside, 

 and to show that a hedge of privet or barberry is far more beau- 

 tiful than the most elaborate fence ever constructed. It shows, 

 too, the advantage of grouping low-growing evergreens or flower- 

 ing shrubs around the foundation walls. 



