. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 411 The Catalpa Bangei is still more dwarfish, being a shrub three to five feet high. The flowers are in clusters a foot long. What has been said about protection for our native catalpa at the north, applies with still more force to these imported sor
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 411 The Catalpa Bangei is still more dwarfish, being a shrub three to five feet high. The flowers are in clusters a foot long. What has been said about protection for our native catalpa at the north, applies with still more force to these imported sorts. We believe that in a. deep dry warm soil they will prove hardy in the northern States, if protected until their roots have had time to become established below the ordinary freezing of the earth. Yet we \\'ould not omit late autumn mulching and some covering for the tops until they are so large that it cannot conveniently be THE SASSAFRAS. Launts sassafras. This is the only quite hardy species of the beautiful laurel famil}', so highly prized for their abundant glossy foliage in the southern States, (there known as bay trees); and interesting as the only representative in the northern States of the noble laurel or bay, whose leaves have always been symbols of victory, and endless themes for poetical allusions. It is also allied by family ties to those two most aromatic trees, the camphor tree of Japan, and the cinnamon tree of Ceylon, both of which are species of lau- rel. Though the sassafras grows wild all over the country wherever. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919. New York, John B. Alden
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