Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-04-30
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ests We can find far more beautiful ones
that we know we can iransplan. and war.
rant 10 be hardy
No climber with a foreign title can ev-
or equal our common Virginia creeper,
growing so abuudantly in our own woods.
and no plants can equal our naples. elms,
ilndens. ashes, and oaks. among trees :
our azaleas, kalmias, spicebush, leath-
er-wood, witch-hazel, alders, and red
osier, among shrubs; and our pines, hem
locks, spruces, and cedars, among the
evergreens.
FLOWERS.
Where shall we put our flowers? Not
in beds dottng the lawn here and there
no, don I for anything spoil the beauty oil
that velvet carpet. Have the flowers on
one side, make them into borders or beds
AS you choose. but certainly have plenty,
apart from even these, that you can, dur
ing their season, cut from them TO embel-
lish your mantel, your windows. your din
ing.room and your kitchen. say kitchen,
because. for the farmers wife, large
part of the time is spent here. and the
flowers are for use and enjoyment where
they will do the most good.
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tiful to employ as centres Tor flower-beds,
and make n permanent position about
which To arrange colors.
Do not think because you have climb.
ing rose, a clematis, a honey-suckle, or a
frost grape, that you must make an elab-
crate lattice-work or trellis. Let one
climb up the corner of the house, another
the yeranda column, another over the door
to the side entrance, aud put one by The
gate-post, by an old oak that You hate to
part with but which looks rather scraggv.
Make everything appear as natural AS pos
sible; it is IN good Taste and matter OF
economy.
One word more about planting. Give
as much variety TO your grounds rs is pos
ble, anu avoid right lines. These are stiff
and monotonous. Ii you have a stilted
Tree like the Lombardy poplar, hide. by
planting at its base. the lower part of 1t 4;
and il you have a low grower that you
wish to give prominence put il on rise
OF ground.
THE EXPENSE.
And now how is the farmer to meet the
labor and expense of all this know
the farmers hands gre always full; he
works early and late and has little time
for recreation; but | beg leave to offer
these suggestions: The farmer should
be more OF business man in order to gam
time. When be makes his business sys-
TEN and looks upon his time as SO much
money then he will have more time. His
recreation will be guided by plan, and
his landscaping can be his recreation.
Again. might not some of the little vices
~ al. k. Il. a
by interest and money put into the home
grounds. and that too with a good deal
better effect and more lasting enjoyment
Once more, offer this as suggestion :
that the adornment of the home grounds
BE A FAMILY WORK
in which every member is to take de-
cided part and interest. The children of
well ordered family might perform near
ly all the labor connected with the lawn
and flower garden; the pruning and cult
waiting can be done by them, and be
called amusement; and how rich will be
their reward In the growth of each
species they learn its habits and its
its value; in the adornment of home
they are adjoining their own characters
with graces that will develop with the
years and grant them influence for good
and farther on, when they leave the old
home and are taken from the pleasant as
sociatious that surround it. they will have
that laid up in memory which will come
back to them, sotening their hearts and
declining years of life with the beautiful
home OF childhood. The beauty of home
that Is of the children's making is not
wasted in one generation, but children
and children's children are tempered by
1t, and no man can compute its value.
How grand and beautiful, and yet how
simple in its conception and consumma-
ton