Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 May 1932, p. 40

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Jîîbition and tea on Saturday, May 14, their daughter, Miss Georgia, o f rom 2 until 6 o'clock, in the office of .hurst. The Stompes are rentir Hamilton Fellows and Nedved, 814 Chxarles Bunte's home at 5089 avenue. Mrs. Bunte will leav Tower couirt Mrs. Nedved (Elizabeth for Minneapolis to visit ber dai Kimbal) of Glencue, is: president of ,Mrs. Stuart C. Johnson, and1 the association. I going to California. By J. R. Foote.-__ solon :hter, en is A Guaranteed Dandelion Remover. and AShriub Irrigator Asure method of removing dande- lions and dep-rooted weeds f rom your lawn. The COLVIN. WEEDBIl is Strongly made to give years of serv- ice. It is easy to use . . . you sim- ply flood the root with water andpuIll out the entire weed, root and l! THE DIFFERENCE Cutting merely removes the top and stimulates furthcr growth.,To elimi- nate root weeds you miust remnove the complete plant, root and ail. The Colvin Wee ildo:ti ifYuare not absolutelyi 'satisfleil, the wecdcr andlive wifl be) __ <,ulad< to refnu i our mofle1j. Surface watering is oM little ..help hi Evergreens a n J shrubs. The water, mus et vn..theL f -i <4. t!, thée restais A CLEAN tAWN AND VIGOROUS SH RUBBERY THE EARLY GAR»ZNS Among the very aixcient gardens of. which we have considerable r-ecord, are the Egyptiail gardens. Stone carvings have p)reserv-e( surpiisingly adequate records of sonie apparently outstandIing. gardeis: (if this early period.. The Egyptians seeîneil t o see clear- ly, three angles to landscape garden- ing, the. designi, the plant matejrils and the arran geilent for utility. They organized the gardens, t ley, had the beauty of floy'er and they used *t'le gar.dens. Each age or. period: iu gardening- seems to. stress certain features or values and is clîaracterized by those excesses. Sonetimes, these excesses' teach us what iiot to do and at other times or places they sinîplypoint, to some special neceSssty. The Egyptian gar(lens exceeded ini trees for shade and pools: tô cool thie air, and. thiat is jis-t what wve iight expect them to be.. Thie Persians took up> these Egyptian ideas, which lu- cludecl the general ulse'.of the ' entireI Hlere wve finid Ilie. gardens and the liotse united, and the gardens hia-je becoîne very architectural. 'rhrough- out th e entire, estate, utility and beantv go) hand' inlai. In this. type of, gar(len we fitid for the irst time, a developnient of the* a.xis, the p)oinlt of interest, central features, the. vista and a considera- tion of prôpo)0rtions.. É NGLISH GARDENS By the time me couic t4 the periodl of Englisli gardens, several quite dis- tinct types of gardens have -developcd elsewliere. su thiat thie. b)est m1-ay be use(1 in the Enghisli type. fitted to the peculiar nee(Is )f ihe country and th-, ti ni es. Ilie, Castle gardeti which merged Into the TIudor type, acconiniudated the shut in anidprotected family iet of the period. l'le gardensý were walled and quite separate from thle iiowse and yet thev have a 'developeýd beauty on .a fornial plan- whiclî did rnnch credit to the tinies a: gardeniii.z property, as. a gardeiî or' landscape I1.ater on thle .1,E'izahta adn and proceeded t). vork nîto' it, môre, ýcame ini strôlng.were (IeveIoped anf of beaut. inade aà permanent place for- thein- 'rhe modern conception of the Per- selves lu ,garden, histéev, tîpling Sian garde,î .inchides a pronounccd imany gardens wil are cven yi love for the exotic, the wid the uin- h'leld up as exanmples of tins and that usual. iniinideril gardening. l'hese garden'. wýere more uinited with thee boiuse. ROMAN GARDENS, more ordered. 'lhle vegetables wr AN-OUTSTANDING TYPE - separated and segregated, îlot. so The,. ttalian gardens have been a ciated .with the flower beds- as thev continuious land mark in the onward wvere ]In the Tudor gardens. Here the march of gardens. Possibly this is fornmai taste was. favored. Arrange- largely true hecause they are so or- m ient or plan and plant materials ganized and bold of outline, can be j iere secii .as the avenues of deveIop- so weil uniderstood..and taught. Also, ment.. the history, of Villas', .the historjc '1hî1-l'dor gar(IeIlhepbkc.ilt Villas, are continuously before us and. anid. the l'izah)etlia, stands for beau- so, are continuons ex-amples of 'gar- tv andl ordér. dening in that mighty era. Tfw nll Mgrenîs ini general -are \Vheîi we tlîink, of the Roman 'gar- btîled on uipward series'of teracs den, we tiîing of a vista, leading up- those terraces ns>uallv s\prted bv ward toward soine ancient building, ttressiîg wý,alls, so thiat eaclî ter- which caîî only be glinmpsed tbroug 1l race is qui te sep)arate. ufteîî making the Vista flankled with anicient pyra- tlhe garde,î a series of roonî. like gar-. inidal trees. The ascent is miade. over (lCned courts, except iliat they are a series of flights of steps, joined bv (luite spaciouis. Often tîmies again, ràmp)s, bordei-ed witli balustrades per- the buttresses are so frequent that haps, and surely aIong the ascent \viil the terraces take~ onte Ltaric FLOWER PRIESERVATION SOCIETY AMIRICAN. LANDSCAPB ASSOCIATION MtILze LYPes t gardens and lesser Stihings. Surprises and .tricks were in- ~'cluded, hidden or intermittent foun- Ctaitis, to trick and discomifort tlhe visi- Ct or. Crude and useless oddities crept in ûnutil with the collecting of many ~46varied types of garden within. on* MOOREPS SPECIAL. OFFER 2 LES. MOORES WAX. *1O Sent Parcel Post Fine, Rard.wood Floorgi Sanuing ࣠Reflnlshing aiL. Manufacturera of N1 Moorie'PolisitingWax Pas4te-Powdered-Liqud..Xon,-Slip Our, S4th Ycar 185 W. Wabash Ave.(Ob ,flooir) Phone.:Pranhlin 54#1 WILD1

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