| Fruit trees deserve a place in every well-planned | | | | anything else. Small but well-rooted specimens. on |
| garden, large or small. Even if grown primarily for | | | | the other hand, are cheaper to buy, easier to |
| beauty, in these days of scarcity and high prices | | | | move, and, in a few years, will grow into |
| for tree or bush fruits it is satisfying to be able to | | | | handsome shrubs and trees. This is particularly |
| step out into the yard and harvest tree-ripe, | | | | true of some of the finer evergreens and other |
| juicy, and delicious fruits. A few fruit trees, grape | | | | woody plants that are slow growers and |
| vines, and some brambles, bush fruits or | | | | necessarily high priced in these times. |
| strawberries can be squeezed into even a small | | | | Community and highway beautification is much in |
| garden. Pruning and spraying are not serious | | | | the limelight these days. We hear of such |
| chores, and some gardeners get good fruit with | | | | ambitious plans as statewide memorial drives |
| one or two sprayings and an annual pruning. Two | | | | planted to dogwood or other flowering trees. The |
| or three plants of rhubarb, well supplied with plant | | | | days of the unprotected and unplanted express |
| food, will supply enough of juicy "pie plant"' for the | | | | highway are numbered, we hope. With a |
| average family. For those rare families who will | | | | protective strip left in its natural state, or |
| buy or build a new home, a real gardening treat is | | | | landscaped with native trees and shrubs, as in |
| in store. Unless the grounds are already planted, it | | | | Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield |
| is fun to start from scratch. If time and inclination | | | | County, Connecticut, driving becomes a joy |
| permit, draw the plans yourself using the scale | | | | indeed. We must have more of these beautiful |
| paper that you can buy at any stationery store. | | | | highways, planned along state and national lines, if |
| The advice of a professional landscape architect | | | | our future travel is to come up to the ideals we |
| may be advisable, particularly if your grounds are | | | | are coming to expect of it. Beautifully built and |
| large, or if there are special problems. Some of | | | | planted highways are not good enough, however, |
| the better nurseries employ graduate landscape | | | | if, when we are leaving them, we find ourselves |
| men, and often their advice will actually save you | | | | at once in the midst of dingy industrial or shabby |
| money and give better final results. It can be | | | | residential districts. Or, when we ride the |
| budgeted over a period of years, and, if you | | | | handsome, streamlined trains of the future, are |
| have a good plan, the results will be better than | | | | we to put up with the kind of industrial and |
| trying to complete a sketchy plan in one year's | | | | commercial ugliness and squalor that we now find |
| time. Remember, too, that good stock pays. Poor | | | | along the main lines of so many of our great |
| varieties and poorly grown and ill packed nursery | | | | railroads? |
| stock will usually grow into more headaches than | | | | |