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the rural, new-yorker 
The Home Acre. 
BEAUTIFYING THE HOME GROUNDS. 
Part III. 
There should be no permanent im¬ 
provements to the home grounds at¬ 
tempted until a suitable working plan of 
the area to be treated is made, upon 
which all existing buildings, trees, etc., 
should be accurately located, and num¬ 
bered on the plan; also all the desired 
improvements, including driveway, walks 
and all new plantings of trees, vines, 
shrubs and plants should be accurately 
located on the plan and numbered. In 
locating the various plantings careful at¬ 
tention should be given to the contour 
of the grounds, so that all the plantings 
may be so situated that the most pleas¬ 
ing and harmonious effect may be ob¬ 
tained. In the making of the plans they 
should be drawn to scale; otherwise it 
will not bo possible accurately to locate 
the existing structures, nor to locate 
properly the new things to be added to 
the grounds. The cut shows a farm- 
home grounds that have recently under¬ 
gone remodeling and improvement. The 
grounds contain about three-fourths of 
an acre, and are comparatively level. 
Formerly the driveway ran straight in 
from the front, past the house, and 
turned toward the barns at almost an 
acute angle. The only trees on the 
grounds were an old Silver maple near 
the southeast corner of the house, and 
a few old fruit trees scattered here and 
there in the rear of the house. A few 
old lilacs and other shrubs were also on 
the place, but were all dug up and 
thrown away. 
The front, west and north fences were 
of post and board construction, without 
a tree or shrub near them to hide their 
unsightliness. In the remodeling the 
front fence has been removed and a 
privet hedge substituted, along which has 
been planted at irregular intervals just 
inside, a number of low-growing shrubs. 
Silver maples are planted aong the side¬ 
walk in front, and a row of Norway 
maples along the fence on the west side, 
and English elms along the east fence. 
The driveway was changed from a 
straight line to a graceful curve, enter¬ 
ing the grounds near the southwest cor¬ 
ner with a reverse curve, leading up to 
and by the house with an easy curve to 
the left, and intersecting the farm lane 
opposite the barnyard gate. Along the 
drive a number of European lindens are 
planted, which in a few years will grow 
into beautiful speciments. Other de- 
“- Farm home 
ciduous trees and evergreens are planted 
at various points where they will show 
to the best advantage, and at the same 
time not obstruct the outlying views 
from the house. 
The front lawn is comparatively un¬ 
obstructed, so that the view of the house 
is not obscured from the public road. 
The west lawn is entirely void of trees 
except along the driveway and the border 
along the board fence, which contains 
the Norway maples and a border of S8 
mixed shrubs, in considerable variety, so 
arranged that the effect is extremely 
harmonious and pleasing. At the north 
side of the end of driveway where it in¬ 
tersects with the farm lane is also a bed 
of choice shrubs. On the east end of the 
piazza are four honeysuckle vines trained 
up to the roof of the piazza, and on each 
side of the bay window are beds of 
Rugosa roses, each bed containing eight. 
In front of the front piazza is a nar¬ 
row bed planted to low-growing hardy 
herbaceous flowering plants in variety. 
On the west side of the house five strong- 
growing hardy bush roses are planted. 
The wood and coal house north of the 
Barn 
and Yard 
dwelling is screened by six large Cali¬ 
fornia privets. The vegetable and flower 
gardens are in the rear of the grounds, 
as is also the small fruit garden, which 
directly adjoins the other gardens on the 
north, with a board fence separating 
them. The whole grounds have been so 
transformed by the improvements as to 
make it hardly recognizable as the same 
place, and at a cost for trees, shrubs, 
vines and plants approximateing about 
$150 at the nursery. The work of im¬ 
proving was performed by the owner. 
Planting specifications of trees for 
farm home: No. 1, six Silver maple; 4, 
seven Norway maples; 5, 11 European 
lindens, 6, five English elms; 7, one Pin 
oak; 8, Sugar maple; 9, Norway spruce; 
10, Douglas spruce; 11, Blue spruce; 12, 
Retinispora plumosa aurea; 13, Retinis- 
pora squarrosa Veitchi; 14, Retinispora 
filifera; 15, Retinispora plumosa; 16, 
Retinispora pisifera aurea; 17, Abies 
Nordmanniana; 18, Retinispora argen- 
tea; 19, Abies concolor; 20 and 21 tall 
privet to screen the wood house; 22, old 
cherry tree; 23, Colorado Blue spruce; 
No. 2, old fruit trees; 3, old maple. 
CHEMICALS FOR A GARDEN 
Our soils in central Illinois are want¬ 
ing in phosphorus, and the rock phos¬ 
phate is hard to get here; at least I 
know of no firm handling it; I am liv¬ 
ing in town and only want 100 or 200 
pounds a season for my garden. Would 
ground bone do in place of it? I can 
get bone meal in Chicago for $2.55 per 
hundred, dried blood for $3.60, also tank¬ 
age of two grades. Why not a mixture 
of them in place of stable manure, which 
here is very coarse and full of straw and 
baling wire, which is so nice to sharpen 
a hoe on? If I could get good wood ashes 
I would give it a good covering of that. 
I am in my ninetieth year, and don’t 
like to hoe without growing something. 
Tallula, Ill. l. B. 
The bone meal will certainly take the 
place of the phosphate rock. It is much 
better for garden use. We would use 
250 pounds of the bone meal to 100 
pounds of dried blood. This would not 
equal the manure, however, as neither 
the bone nor the blood contain any 
potash. This must be supplied in some 
form. If you can get 600 pounds of 
good wood ashes, this would go with the 
quantity of bone and blood we have 
mentioned. Do not try to mix the ashes 
with the blood and bone. Scatter the 
ashes after spading or plowing, and work 
or harrow in. Use the blood or bone in 
the hill or drill. If you cannot get the 
ashes, 100 pounds of muriate of potash 
can be used with the blood and bone. 
You are right about the advantages of 
chemicals over stable manure, so far as 
filling the ground with weed seeds is con¬ 
cerned. Manure is a nuisance for doing 
this in a garden. 
PLANS FOR FARM GROUNDS. 
“DEATH, TAXES 
AND 
Are the Only Three Things in This World I Am Sure of” 
WROTE AN OLD CUSTOMER OF OURS 
Passing by the first two, he and every other farmer cer¬ 
tainly has every right to be sure of THE MAPES MANURES. 
They have been used for fifty years by the most intelligent, 
the solidest and most successful farmers, who have banked 
absolutely on 
I. THE RECORD OF MAPES IN THE FIELD. 
Our record in the field for the past fifty years is too well- 
known to require more than a mere reference. In this connec¬ 
tion, “lest we forget,’’ in the American Agriculturist’s Prize 
Contest, open to the entire United States, the largest crops 
of Potatoes and Corn grown on commercial fertilizer alone 
were grown with Mapes; 669 bushels of Potatoes on one 
measured acre with the Mapes Potato Manure, and 213 bush¬ 
els Shelled Corn on one measured acre with the Mapes Corn 
Manure. 
II. THE MAPES RECORD WITH THE EXPERIMENT 
STATIONS. 
We are equally proud of our record with the Stations. 
There may at times have been an occasional chance analysis 
which was not quite what we would have liked, and not fairly 
representative of our goods, but on the grand average, year 
in and year out, our record has been something to be justly 
proud of. 
III. SAME FAMILY MANAGEMENT FOR THREE 
GENERATIONS. 
Not only have the Mapeses continued successively in the 
business for three generations—grandfather, father and son— 
but the Lanes, who have been associated with the Mapeses 
from the start, follow the same identical record in the business, 
grandfather, father and son, successively. Could there be a 
better guarantee than this family management, with the ele¬ 
ment of family pride deeply involved, that everything has 
been done and will continue to be done to make the Mapes 
Manures as good as the knowledge of fertilizer science per¬ 
mits for the crops fo.r which they are intended. 
The Mapes Manures have never stood still but have been 
constantly improving as the knowledge of scientific plant 
feeding broadened and progressed. 
“The Mapes business had its inception in the scientific 
research and experiments of Professor James Jay Mapes, and 
scientific research and experiment, coupled with the most 
exact practical experience, have been the dominating factors 
in the Mapes business to the present day.”—The Florida 
Grower. 
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