The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
Landscape Hrebifeefure
For Uomen.

quite so high, then something still
lower, and so on, with pleasing va
riety of low growing shrubs and plants
at the base-always preserving har
mOny in color and form, while avoiding
anything approaching a symmetrical
arrangement; one should also plan for
an unbroken continuation in bloom
from spring TO fall A distinct mark
Of the amateur is the variety, the pro-
fessiOnal cOntenting herself with Fsw
simple species that perfectly harmon
ize. and so arranged as TO give the eff
feet desired. A good course in draw
ing and designing is recommended by
Mrs. McCrea as being of inestimable
value when one comes to the work of
submitting plans for parks or any con-
siderable public or private grounds. In
her own work, Mrs. McCrea's whole
aim is to keep close to nature, care
fully stunning any suggestion of the
artificial and reproducing wherever
she can ideal natural rusticity. She al
ways has her sketch book with her,
and whenever she sees a charming eff
feet in nature-a grouping of trees or
bushes, a shaded bank or verdant up
land, she makes a little sketch of it for
possible reproduction in her special line
of work.
Inc AnOWIeQSe Required.
Among the first requisites to success
in this work from the practical side,
is to add to a thorough understanding
of the requirements of plants and trees,
an expert knowledge of soil. In or
der to grow, a plant must always be
surrounded by its native conditions.
You cannot, for instance, take a plant
that has been grown in clay and expect
it to live, if transplanteG to a sandy
soil. The making up of the earth in
which to receive a new plant or tree,
is therefore a matter of the first i'm
portance. Mrs. McCrea has become as
sensitive to soil as most women are to
flowers, and says that she can never
pass a bit of good earth on the road
side without wanting to pick it up and
carry it home with her. 1t is indeed
through this knowledge that she hopes
to save the city large amount in the
annual loss of its trees. Illustrative Of
this point, she cites a circumstance that
once came under her personal observa-
ton in Chicago. A number of young
trees had been purchased for one of
the parks, and wagon loads of street
SWeepings had been reserved TO put
over the roots on the supDOsition that
this refuse material would be particu-
larly good as a fertilizer.
Now, they might just as well have
put live Goals of fire on those tender
little roots" remarked Mrs. McCrea;
they could not work more deadly re-
suits than the carbOnic acid gas gener-
ated from the street SweepfngS.
Thousands of trees die every year from
just this kind of treatment; no one
knows why, and the grower who
CHANGED to sell the trees is usually
blamed. Whole carloads of black dirt
are frequently brought in from the
country, in which there is not a handful
of real nourishment. Black is merely
color, and does not necessarily in
dictate richness, although frequently. of
course, the dark earth is exceptionally
good. Only the expert can tell by the
feeling and texture as to the quality
Your clay sand loan must be mixed
entirely according to the native cOndi-
tions Of the plant which it is supposed
to sustain.
OF course many of the trees die from
this treatm Mt. and no one knows
wherefore The hole should be of a size
that every tiny rOotlet may have
plenty of room in which to stretch it
self quite at its will. over this should
go layer Of light earth that has been