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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1924 AND Plants da. GIVES HINT ON ROAD PLANTING Jensen Says Trees Give Expression to Landscape 87 JENS JENSEN lt and Re- : up your o. l condi~ it during l 430 or DIS ~TH Lrdener (Landscape Architect, The Lincoln Highway Ass'n.) Editor's Note : This is the last of a series. of t.hree brief articles on roadside beautificat·o'!' by the America1~ landscape archttect who has given most thought and study to this important work .. Mr. J~nsen has been retained by the Lmcoln Htghway Association Jo carry out the beautification of the Ideal section of the Lincoln Way in Indiana and to plan an Ideal camp site for tovri.rts ther~. He is President, Friends of Ow Natwe Landscape a'!fl a gO'Uerning mem~er of t.he Art ln.s!Jtute of Chicagn. He ss a re~dent of Wslmetle. . ~rees, l.ike hu~n folks, have individual charactenstics. Various kinds of trees differ in this way considerably just as do shrubs and flowers. We are too apt to overlook this matter which is so important in getting t~e best or rather the finest expression out of the plant. A lane or road ~rche~ over by elm trees, for instance, IS qu1te a dtfferent thing than one arched over by oak and sugar maple. The branche~ of the elm trees produce a gothtc curve which neither o~k nor sugar maple can. White pmes on top of a cliff seem to extend the cliff many feet higher than it really is. . W~ite oa~, ~irch or sugar maple wtll g1ve a stmliar expression to a hill. Colden Catldne I still vividly remember passing throug~ Missouri one May day when the wh1te oaks were in flower. Everywhere the hilltops were crowned with the golden catkins of the white oak silhouetted against the blue sky Those are things we want to take ad: yantage of in roadside planting. It 1s worth while and in this way we will establish landmarks of outstanding. beauty if we are guided by nature . It IS folly to plant white pine where it will not thrive as one so often sees it done. .Where the land is boggy tamarack 10 the North or cypress in the South, we should select the tree that ex,press.es such lo":land landscape most beautifully. It 1s at home in its own environs and here it will give us joy and beauty in full measure. As a general rule more beauty and dignity is the result of planting a rroup of one kind of tree instead of 'xing them. I am not here speakg about forest ?r woodland planting, but about planting along our highways. Where the adjacent landscape is not interesting, the roadside picture would be enhanced by a promiscuous planting of trees, not in a formal line but in a scattered way so that you meet many trunks in place of one as you pass down the highway. In other words, this is the place for a lane of trees shutting off the view of the adjoining country . Plantin· for Penpec:thl'e wood would become grotesque and irritating but not so in the open country. Imagine a sloping hill covered with ;os~s. or if in a pine countl,y 1 with JU.ntpers or harebells, or in the South w1th , Yuccas. Such a sight might be worth going many miles to see. The top of a bluff may be crowned with oak or maple and in the pine country with white pine. It there be a rock cliff at a turn, such plants as native grape, bittersweet, red elderberry, yellow honey-suckle, junipers, harebells blueberries, goat-beard spirea, etc. ati in accordance with what will g~ow in that section of the country and make· the most beautiful picture should be planted. There are a great many other plants that will grow in sudl a situation and enhance the barren cliff, as there are many other plants that will grow on the clay or gravelly bank than those I have mentioned. The native . vegetation is always the correct and sure guide to !ollow. Avoid stiff formality of plantmg. the corresponding first quarter of 1923. Electricity and gas sales are a good barometer of general business and living conditions in a territory, inasmuch as the products are of such wide general use, both in industry and the home, and the increase or decrease reflects the "ups" and "downs" of the · territory as a whole. Of equally wide interest and indicat· ing the rapid growth in northern Illinois, the company reports having set 4,635 additional electric meters in the first quarter of the year. This compares with 3,994 meters set in the first three montsh of 1923. Whatever tb Circumstance· I ROOFING over the Old Shingles ESTIMATES FREE P. S. Company Tella us Business ia Looking Up An optimistic reflection of composite business and living conditions in northern Illinois is contained in the figures for the first three months of 1924 of the Public Service Compan~ Northern Illinois, just niade public. The figures show an increase in ele ric light and power sales of 21 .2 percent and in gas sales of 18.7 percent, as compared with e 1549 SHORE NORTH ROOF CRAFl'ERS Daria St. EYaaatoa Pho. . 7l2t .. ~0. .. lncoJ'POI'Ill. . Park A,..,., Gl-coe Phone IM S4Z Phone Wilmette ~ 1124 Central Aw · Wllmette W H 0 0 W N S ~T E:R · I K T H B J4 A N 0 N & ~ fA r???? 221224 ········· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · + + + + + + + ,_.-....~......_......_,I~ ....,......._,.,.,., ......,...,.,_ WANNER MALLEABLE CASTINGS COMPANY HAMMOND, INDIANA · + + + + 1n the light of the power, speed and amoothness of the Packard.. Eight, its luxurious ease of riding, and ita unequalled beauty, consider theee mechanical details: About half as manv points requiring lubricad.on as in lOme v. type eights. Parts so accessible with service charges eo low that engines of more complicated desian cannot stand comparison. The Packard Fuelker, an excluaive Packard feature, which tpeeda up acceleration, reduces the warming up period in cold weather, contributea to fuel ecoo.omv and dimJnisbeadnudonof cnnkce· oiL · + · ... · · · · · ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ········ ry the nt er y· Where the views of the surrounding country are not only beautiful but where your eye wants to reach the contours of the land in order to get the greatest value of the picture, the planting should consist of low shrubs like our native roses broken perhaps by plums, crabapples, or hawthornes, or intercepted with still lower material like native herbacious plants . Such especially would be · the case out here on the prairies of the MiddleWest where it is desirable to prevent shutting in and squaring up the prairie landscape. Hawthornes, especially are so expressive in the prairie landscape with their stratified branches symbolizing the horizontal lines of the plains. Crabapples and native plum also are a strong note in the prairie landscape. One can recognize Iowa by its many native plums found in the hedge rows everywhere. A few oaks, sugar maples or b~ech, or in the northern country, birch, at the turn of the road will add as much interest here as the church or other !public buildings at the end of a street vista. It will also give perspective to the open country beyond as one looks through or between the trunks of the trees. I recently passed over a road where a walnut of great .age had been left at the turn, and in another instance in one of our northern states, a white pine more than one hundred feet high had been left in a similar situation. In each instance the tree became a landmark. It is worth while planting landmarks and it is just as easy to do the right thing as the wrong, and the result cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Ptaatia· in O,.a Country Take the roadside in a low and wet landscape where you want to emphasize and still not hide the beauty of such a landscape. Nothing is more fitting than the red osier dogwood. You need not be afraid of overdoing the amount of planting in such a situation; it will always be in scale with the great open country surrounding it and will never dominate the landscape. There may be other places where an overdose of red osier .dog- PACKARD MOTOR CAR (X)MPANY ol CHICAGO a57 MICHIGAN A VBNUB CALUMET 7..00