Sugar Maples and Teas’ Weeping Mulberry. 
Ornamental Department 
While nio.st ijeople appreciate well-arranged and kept grounds, large or small 
many fail to realize that they can have equally line grounds. The.se have had a few 
shrubs or roses growing in thick turf, with no attention given to pruning or cultivat- 
ing. Under such circumstances, good results cannot be expected. 
Aside from the pleasure of having fine trees, shrubs, vines and flowers in the 
grounds surrounding a home, few realize how much these add to the commercial 
value of the place. A purcha.ser having to decide between a house with bare and 
unkept grounds, and one surrounded by fine ornamentals, invariably chooses the latter 
at a marked advance in price, because he sees that he will at once enjoy what it would 
otherwise take some years to secure. Sagacious men are led by a knowledge of these 
facts to plant fine trees and shrubs about vacant lots they are intending to put upon 
the market. Lots thus planted readily secure purchasers at good ])rices, when bare* 
grounds go begging for buyers. 
HOW TO PLANT 
Do not make the mistake of planting at random all over the grounds. A fine, 
well-cut lawn is one of the handsomest features of a place. Trees may be planted 
cdong a lane or avenue leading to the house, or dotted about the lawn on lines radiat- 
ing from the house. This will secure light and air, with good views from the hou.se. 
Upright shrubs and roses should be planted in beds, each class by itself, about the 
borders of the grounds. These beds should be well cultivated and the plants annu- 
ally pruned. When the growth of the plants has made them very thick, some should 
be taken out. It will not <lo to plant so little that years must elapse before a fine effect 
will be produced. A surplus should be jilanted at first, and this gradually be take?) 
out. \’ines should be planted near to and allowed to climb upon and about the house, 
or they may be trained on posts, arbors or stakes, phiced in suitable locations on the 
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