Show 42 tr A aia low aa at agoti eo ILI miller T ephe he university of illi I 1 r nois is telling rural people why trees and flowers and fine views X add value to property A IL can afford to have bare and ugly home grounds it Is bad bustness business of course we do not commonly take a business view of our homes we think of home in terms of sentiment for we all want the best there 14 Is in life and we know we can raise better children it if they have beautiful surroundings but granting that we dai a ll 11 have the best sentiment in the world we cannot escape the business side bide for instance we all have to consider the cost of making a lawn of fertilizing and planting ng now there are two ways ot of handling these pr practical matters oneff one of which gives little or no profit while the other gives very great profits of course you do not expect to make mo money aey out of your home you expects expect to live in it t but the day will come when you or your children will wish to sell 11 part or all of your property and the buyer will look at everything you have done from the cold unsympathetic viewpoint of hard cash value the man of wealth who indulges every personal whim and makes an eccentric place will lose a lot of money on the other hand it you leave your place bare it may be absolutely when the time of need comes or you will get less than it Is worth but it if your farm Is sensibly planted you can get a bigger profit for the money you put into trees and shrubs than for the same money spent on house baro barn or hogs then old tweed that cost you nothing to plant may bring you a millionaire buyer ten dollars spent on shrubs and vines planted against the foundation of your house may add IDO to its cash selling value it if you spend 10 in the ordinary way of beautifying the farm you will get back not one ona single cent if you spend it lu in the illinois way you cannot hol h a 1 c increasing the cash value or salability of your farm because permanent trees are worth tor for beauty alone 1 1 a square inch in cross suction of their trunk three feet above the ground and they increase in value e every year the common way of planting is to scatter flower beds over a lawn it alms aims to make the biggest show for the money and get immediate results that is why beginners make fane fancy y beds of complicated design and fill them with flowers which give great masses of striking color for Q months or more but next ae winter those beds are vacant and ugly and next spring the same work must be done and every year there Is IB a fresh outlay of money for the same thing soon the constant repetition of the work gets monotonous and next we realize that the effect la is gaudy for our standards aie constantly rising and what we admired five years ago now seem in bad taste it dawns on us that any beginner can put flower beds in the middle of the lawn and that every beginner will try to make each dollar stand up on edge where everyone can see it thus we come to hate bate show and to care more for privacy permanence dignity peace restfulness outdoor living winter comfort views a playground for the children old tree cut flowers in the house all the time and low cost of maintenance te nance why lose money by planting now what you will tear out civo years hence when you know better why not anticipate the growth of your own and good taste so that you will waste no precious years and your place will grow lovelier and more valuable every year the right way Is to use permanent plants instead of temporary ones and to place them el where liere they will meet every practical need of the family instead of scattering them for shew and the illinois way Is to tc meet all the o adoor needs 0 of f the family by having 90 per cent of the planting composed of trees tree sand and shrubs that grow wild in illinois why Il illinois linIs trees because they are hardy and therefore economical to maintain we do not have to io test their hardiness since nature has adapted them to our conditions by experiments covering tens of thousands of years moreover we want illinois to look different from all the rest of the world and 0 o have a noble character of its awni own 1 the highest ideal that any farmer can realize is to have a profitable farm with permanent buildings and permanent planting both of which are utterly different if from those of europe and fis as full as possible of american and even of state character european farm houses are so different that you can usually tell simply from a picture whether they a tre re german french dutch It altan or spanish ash the english farmer often lives in g a house of brick or stone which has sheltered his family for generations in front of it stands a pair of oaks that have defied the storms of to years the house is covered with ivy or with roses which climb to the top of the red tiled roof the yard sard Is surrounded by a hedge of ha hawthorn thorn or of holly the englishman boasts that ho he loyes loves his home more than any other man living ard and points to the tact fact that the Engl english isif language an Is the tha only one that has separate words tor for house hous and home every old state in america tends to have its own style of building and planting massachi Mass massachusetts achu Is fam famous ous for her colonial or georgian houses bouses like the tha one in which longfellow lived with cen tury fury old elms sheltering the stately root roof like gigantic umbrellas virginia is celebrated for the farmhouses built by washington jefferson madison and their friends their hospitable roots roofs shaded by towering tulip trees or ancient live oaks hung with moss long island Is noted for the homes of its ita cauliflower growers with every room open to the ocean breeze and the white wide shingled walls set bet off by feathery locust trees loaded in june with clusters of fragrant white flowers georgia Is renowned foi for her houses in the greek stylo style which are genuinely adapted to a hot climate by reason of their galleries or second story porches where the family can enjoy every passing breeze aid feast their eyes upon the grandest subtropical tree in the world magnolia grand lflora connecticut has many a clapboarded clap boarded farmhouse shaded by white oaks that were here when the first white man came while on the lawn may be a rhododendron or mountain laurel planted by the great grandea of the present owner in pennsylvania you can often tell what county you are in by a single glance out of the car window if you see everywhere massive farmhouses of local stone laid up in German germantown iown style bayle it Is a fair wager abi that at you are in bucks chester or delaware county if your eyo eye meets ancient brick houses with porches extending tho the full length of each house a dia mond shaped stone bearing the date of its erection and odd little projections on the slate roof to keep the snow from falling oft off in great chunks that may bury a person persan it Is a sate safe guess thit that you are in lancaster or some adjacent county the great variety of majestic oaks that have brooded blooded for a century or more over these venerable houses bouses proclaims that eastern pennsylvania Is a paradise for trees designed by nature to last through the centuries even in the now new state of oregon the up to date apple growers adf of hood river are laying the foundations of a state style of architecture and gardening with their low houser screened porches and paths lined with great diuble garden roses blooming in a profusion that is Ini impossible possible in the east avery state will eventually have its own style of farm achl jecture and gardening nothing can stop giop it and wo we can profit by building nad and ranting in tile the style that will beime dominant as the ceni centuries urles roll by it Is natural that we should like to have near us the trees we love best but nearly all the most popular trees are unfit tor for framing a vie of the home take for instance those that have showy flowers like the the locust and the empress tree or aulow nia they are forever making a litter und should beat biaca a Ci distance stanco from the the house bouse so too with the quick growers like the box bodder der the silver maple and the carolina or lombardy lombard poplar thel the go to wreck in storms and their branches fall on the house perhaps the I 1 most inappropriate Is the norway spruce ma many ny a house bouse has Buff ereda depreciation of hundreds of at dollars ovong to dismal norway spruced spruces sp nicea Z for they often hasten the decay of a root roof by giving too much shade and moisture to say nothing of making a home look melancholy instead of of joyous the sugar and norway maples are fine trees but like all round headed trees they tend to hide the view of a house more quickly than la Is commonly realized the ideal treo tree for framing the view ot your house Is one that will give enough sunlight and enough shade enough shelter and enough cooling breeze to keep a family healthy the only tree that does all these things to perfection lathe american elm not the european moreover a pair of elms will make a pointed or gothic goehl flach archy suggesting high roofed cathedrals and gods first temples unfortunately the enemies of the elm are multiplying and it if you plant elms you must be willing to stand the expense of yearly spraying when the time comes be sure to specify vase form elms they are the only acnes that make the gothic ich and are more valuable than the other types or straggling kinds A pair of oaks will last longer than elms and cost less to maintain th the oaks excel all other trees in nestling close to a house and making it look snug and comfortable the common idea that oaks are slow growers and hard to transplant Is true only of the white oak the pin the scarlet and the red oaks are easily moved and will soon overtake maples and other trees arees that are quicker at the start they will last for centuries after the quick growers are dead plant the trees that you know will make your property more valuable every year |