St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-15
YOUR OWN GARDENER.
A Person Should Not Need Any
Professional to Beautify the

A Person Should Not Need Any
Professional to Beautify the
Grounds.
Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, July s.-There is
so much written about identifying
country homes, and all, or nearly every
one, lays out the grounds in such an eX-
tensive, as we'll as expensive, manner
as to preclude the bare possibility of
any one in Strengthened circumstances
from doing anything of the kind, for
the money required is needed for some
thing of more Importance than floral
characterization, or costly Shrubbery and
foreign trees. This is all well enough
for those that have the money to lavish
on beautlfylng of their homes in the
country, and keeping gardener to care
for it all the year round. A landscape
gardener is very expensive article to
begin with, and his requirements, for
the attachments of tbs object sought are
beyond calculation and much more than
is needed by any person who does not
carry the millions in his or her pockets.
Greatly as every patriotic citizen of
this country may wish to have all the
highways and byways of the land, one
continued stretch of beautiful land
scape adorned with natural and
artificial objects until our coun-
try homes are surrounded with
all things lovely and delightful,
it cannot be attained until all of our
people have been educated up to the
standard required for the appreciation
how they would have it done, and the
most essential of all things, the cash to
carry out their plans. With the help of
landscape gardener that knows how
to make the most of the means at his
command, as we'll as knowing that his
picture is ever in view of criticising
public, and may be SO long years
after his head is laid low beneath
the surface of the earth, If he has
the real artistic gift, his work is just as
valuable as that of the artist in his
studio, working with pigments on can
vas. There is but grain of difference
between the two artiSts-the one works
on canvas for fame and what money he
or she may obtain for the labor ex-
pended, and the public is the Judge of
both these artictic workmen, and "their
works do live after them" must be re-
membered when their work is finished.
A farmer with artistic taste may wish
dill Ills llto lOI Illo lHOuSy W carry OuG
his ideas of identifying his own
home grounds, but wait for the means
to do it with. If he will work and study
effects as he proceeds he will at inter
walls accomplish his aim and enjoy the
fruits of his labor. It's the waiting for
time and money that so often ends in
nothing done. Why should the farmer
lay low the trees that God has planted
in the years that are past, and then 20
to work trying to improve upon what
needed no improvement only to thin
out the number of trees and let the best
of them stay there?
Inever could see the utility of cutting
down the forest trees and then planting
out other trees and waiting for many
years for a shaded spot to sit in as he
read his paper, when the shade was
there in the beginning of his work. A
forest tree that has had the space in
which to spread its limbs in all direc-
tons and reach up to the light above, is
something to be priced by any one near
which house can be constructed, and
the shade is there at once, without any
labor or expense to any one of earth,