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NURSERYMEN—ORCHARDISTS 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 fruit projects, 
in which capacity he comes in touch with the markets of the country. 
Most of our fruit is sold direct to the distributors, although a portion 
goes through some oi the large fruit exchanges. 
OMETHING more than a decade ago a bulletin entitled 
S “Beautifying the Home Grounds” was issued by the United 
States Department of Agriculture. I cannot refrain from 
quoting certain paragrapks 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 adorn- 
ment of city, village, suburban or country home grounds gives a 
charm and beauty ‘which j is interesting and pleasing to passers-by 
as well as to the occupants of the house. Plants are a means of 
expressing restfulness and beauty; their changing aspect with 
the succession of the seasons heightens their pleasing effect and 
relieves monotory. 
“In arranging home grounds the aim sheuld be to hide, by 
means of trees and shrubDery, 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 ard undesirable surroundings ccnsistent 
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 ground the foundation walls. 
