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Title: Beautify your yard
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conard & Jones Co. (West Grove, Pa.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs Shrubs Catalogs Lawn care industry Turf management
Publisher: West Grove, Pa. : Conard & Jones Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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sideof the house ; those very plants may be expected to thrive and please onthe north side of your home, if conditions are similar; so with the groupof shrubs at the southeast corner of the house, with the vines about theporch, the arbor group, the street trees, the border of old-fashionedfowers in the rear, and so forth all around. Any of these suggestionsmay be applicable to your own home lawn. Few people realize what a far-reaching effect one prettily plantedplace has on the surrounding community. Its beauty is contagious.Others w^ill see and try to follow the example,—so that everyone whoimproves his home grounds becomes, in a double sense, a public benefactor. There is one point, however, which we feel that we must add—wecannot do it all—we can only suggest; but if you use reasonably goodjudgment in adapting to your particular conditions the simple basic prin-ciples and ideas here outlined, vv^e feel confident that you will obtain re-sults both successful and gratifying. 1
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Th.» J. ^ - i-:^iGy ihrubbcry server u treble purpose: first, u ior-i --\ - nite border for the broad, unbroken lawn ; second, it effectively screens the service buildings fromview of the house; and, third, in itself it furnishes a succession of brilliant bloom from earlySpring till frost, and then bright-berried fruit. Beautify Your Yard yy WE Americans are every year coming to live more andmore out-of-doors. We are just beginning to appreciatewhat a wealth of enjoyment there is to be had in thesunshine and open air. We have been guilty, sometimes,of making the inside of our home rich in beauty and comfort, while ourparlor out-of-doors was left quite bare and in appearance entirely un-worthy of the people who lived inside. But it is different now, for we are coming out and learning the joyof living with flowers around us; therefore, while we are planning to dothis, let us do it right. Our motive, in landscape gardening, should be to make a picture ofthe grounds about our home, so th

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