Lilacs Disquise Unsightly Clothes Line Posts
"I have seen a set of (clothesline] posts in a backyard entirely covered with living green-a luxuriant growth of Virginia creeper...
The best permanent screen for unsightly objects Is a group of evergreens.
A clump of lilacs costs less and begins to be effective sooner."
June 30, 1906
On this day, The Superior Times out of Superior, Wisconsin, shared a solution to a common backyard problem of the time: Unsightly Clothes Line Posts.
One usually thinks of [clothesline] posts as necessary evils and accepts their ugliness as unredeemable.
It will surprise many to learn that they may be made beautiful and retain their usefulness.
I have seen a set of [clothesline] posts in a backyard entirely covered with living green—a luxuriant growth of Virginia creeper...
The best permanent screen for unsightly objects Is a group of evergreens.
A clump of lilacs costs less and begins to be effective sooner.
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