Landscaping 
“It’s not a home until it’s planted.” “Landscape” 
means the appearance of your grounds as a 
whole. A good landscape means that your 
grounds present a pleasing picture. The planting 
of trees, of lawn making, laying out of walks 
and drives, and the painting of buildings all 
combine to bring about this picture. Therefore, 
plan before you plant. As time permits, we’ll be. 
glad to help. Planting alone is not enough. Up- 
keep counts, too. As an example let us take the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ripley in Ada. 
Look at the way Mr. Ripley keeps his red cedar, 
blue spruce, and pygmea caragana_ shrubs 
trimmed to give a neat appearance. These trees 
can stand trimming but never, never trim or al- 
low anyone else to trim flowering shrubs in the 
same manner. Evergreens and the shrub cotone- 
aster lend themselves well to trimming. 
While landscaping may need some remodeling 
after a few years, it is still true that trees will 
grow in value every year, while automobiles, fur- 
niture and clothing will diminish in value. Of 
course the value of landscaping is not usually 
considered in terms of cash, but rather in benefits 
such as expressed in the poem on the back of this 
book. ‘ 
