The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
GARDENING IN THE FALL
Autumn is the Season in Which to
Make Plans.

Inere are many phases Oh ianuScdpe
gardening and civic Improvement
work which | may discuss here
ScmG oil which will be made the sui
ject of occasional articles-but person
al business prevents the writer from
continuing this daily series, which he
will close with few general remarks.
All but few property owners OF
Bennington have nice gardens for
beauty's sake alone. However, there
is another side to the question which
especially those few who do not care
for beauty and do just about enough
landscape gardening work to satisfy
minimum requirements, should seri-
ously consider. 1t is that nothing en-
hances the value of property as much
as nice surroundings.
On more than one of the streets Of
Bennington-and especially on Main
street-there are a number of pieces
of property which, if they had to be
sold within short time, would not
realize as much as they should, solely
because their appearance is not pleas
ing. Just where buildings are old and
out of date, there is need of landscape
gardening work to relieve their plain
and more or less unsightly featm es.
and in great many cases few dol
lars worth of plants and few hours
work annually for maintenance will
enchanee the value of property by sew
eral hundred dollars.
In a previous article, the writer has
made the statement that with fifty
| dollars a landscape gardener could inn
prove the appearance of the who're of
| Main street immensely and very much
| enhance the value of property not on
| ly where planting would be done, but
on the entire street. Main street is
f! the thoroughfare OF Bennington which
is passed by the largest number of
strangers and what is done taefe
would naturally benefit the entire vii
lage
| What | am stating is not a dream
it is not even speculation. but soue
thing that has been done untold tunes
1t is something that is so well known
that great many progressive Amerl
can towns, especially in the Middle
West supervise landscape work and
advise property owners free of charge
In a number OF communities, the town
frequently has landscape gardening
work done at public expense not mere
ly on public. bat also on private prop
erty. There is hardly a town in the
west and middle west possessing q
high school where course in the
theory, the technique and the practice
of landscape gardening is not given
In many towns evening courses are
| given for adults.
All that work not only helps makinl
a town nicer place to live in: It no
only keeps the boys and girls at home
who may be tempted to 90 to the bis
city to live. but 1t also increases tn,
, value of property so much that III,
town invariably makes a handsome
profit on its investment in increase,
tax returns.
In many ways yet the West has {,
look to the East for inspiration an,
knowledge, but in public spirit, in
: desire to live among beautiful SUI
roundings, the East has been outds
tanced by the West.
Now, | have been told more thai
once during the last few days that al
that said is very interesting and val
able and that II is a great pity that
4 | was not here in the early sprinl
y present time, when interest in ou
door work is waning.
This way of looking at II is the mai
reason why better work is not beIn
done in Bennington. Landscape plaI
ming and much of the landscape wor
a must begin in the fall Most of IN
? defects of the landscape pictures ;
+ Bennington are due to the fact thg
the work was done painless and IT.
= hurry at the beginning of the CROWN
season.
In default of comprehensive cit
work, property owners should writ
h for n number of nursery catalogu,
G as soon as they come out in Sepler
q her Much knowledge may be obtai
If ed from them. However the knc'
Y. ledge they impart Is incomplete, a;
o given piece mell ~ = desutory fas
& ion In defauls OF courses OF Ian
scape gardening, II Is we'll to read ,
: gtod text books on ,he subject
Then. the S.tic Agricultural q
" pertinent Stations and the Dcpal
ct ment of Agriculture In Washingt,
q have published many interesting pam
?. hlets which may be had free
e charge.
he C. Grand Pierre.
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