. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. 286 A COMPARISON OF THE of our hardy trees, both deciduous and evergreen. Many of them- are most interes
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. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. 286 A COMPARISON OF THE of our hardy trees, both deciduous and evergreen. Many of them- are most interesting, curious, and picturesque decoi-ations of small lawns. They include every variety of outline, from the columnar poplar, the slender junipers, and the majestic weeping willow, down to the sorts that creep along the ground. The weeping junipers and arbor-vitses {Thuja) are pensile only at the extremities of their limbs ; the new pendulous firs (Abies excelsa pendula and Picea pec- tinata pendula) are slenderly conical, but with branches drooping directly and compactly downwards around a central stem. The hemlock and Norway spruce firs belong partly to the class of weeping trees on account of their pendant plumy spray, and the droop of their branches as they grow old, although both are rigidly conical trees in their general outlines. The weeping'white birches have upright branches and pendulous spray when young, but as they increase in size the larger branches bend with rambling grace in harmony with their spray, and form picturesquely symmetrical spreading trees ; while the weeping beech, assuming every uncouth contortion when young, becomes a tree of noble proportions, mag- nificently picturesque with age, trailing its slender crooked limbs, covered with a drapery of dark glossy foliage from its summit tO' the ground. See illustration under head of "The Beech." Fig. 76. ^ Picturesque Forms.— ihere are trees which cannot easily be classified— trees of stragglin