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Show ROSES, SHRUBS AXD TREES FOR UTAH HOME GROUNDS j Numerous adapted varieties of roses, ornamental trees and flowering flower-ing shrubs, for use in the improvement improve-ment of home grounds in Utah, are listed by Emil Hansen, specialist in landscape gardening with the Extension Exten-sion Service of the Utah Agricultural College, Logan, .Utaih, in a new circular cir-cular called, "Arrangement and Planing Plan-ing of Home Grounds," copies of which are available upon request, as long as the supply lasts. Besides listing varieties best suited to ' Utah conditions, Mr. Hansen discusses dis-cusses their arrangement and planting plant-ing for home beautification ; the pruniDg and care of roses, shrubs and trees; and the control of insect pests atiecting them. Other chapters in the circular deal with the arrangement arrange-ment of .grounds,, the layin,;-out of walk.i and drive?, the. planting and care of lawns and hedges;, climbing vines, porch, and. window boxes; annual an-nual and perennial flowers for the garden, and spring and fall bulbs. "Throvfrh organization and cooperation cooper-ation of the people in certain sections of the State," says Mr. Hansen, "whole communities have been beautifying be-autifying the home surroundings jn there ccmunn nitres there has been added a touch of culture and refinement." re-finement." It is with a hope of helping in-, terosted citizens to avoid costly -mis-, takes in their, efforts to . improve their -home surroundings, that the., new -'circular hais .lia iflrepared. Its; piuirpoae is "to touch upon some elemental principles of landscape gardening and attempt to make such sugestions as will be most helpful in the bettenment of rural com ruunities." |