. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. 286 Trees for Shade and Ornament spring, becoming deep green in summer and turning brown, finally bleaching out white, persisting partly through the winter. Best devel- oped in a loamy, even stiff, deep, moist soil, but will also grow in shal- lower and drier situations and limestone soils; although then rooting near the surface and being poor in form. It is a rather slow grower, but is one of the most shade-enduring forest trees, and so shady that no grass will grow under it. Free f
. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. 286 Trees for Shade and Ornament spring, becoming deep green in summer and turning brown, finally bleaching out white, persisting partly through the winter. Best devel- oped in a loamy, even stiff, deep, moist soil, but will also grow in shal- lower and drier situations and limestone soils; although then rooting near the surface and being poor in form. It is a rather slow grower, but is one of the most shade-enduring forest trees, and so shady that no grass will grow under it. Free from insects, and clean, but in later life liable to fungus disease, and in its youth to frost and to sun-scald. Somewhat difficult to transplant on account of its deep rooting. A superior tree for lawns with ample space, rivaling the oaks, which it in quiet elegance. It is excellent for grouping with evergreens on a large scale. Two species are planted: F. ferruginea Ait. (210) {Americana), American Beech, distributed throughout the eastern United States and Canada and — F. silvatica Linn. (211), European Beech. The latter is somewhat less hardy but rather superior by virtue of its earlier leafing out, with smaller, more delicate foli- age, fringed by long hairs around the margin, and with a more compact form. For color eiTect, a nat- ural, well-known variety, purpurea (211a), Purple- leaved or Copper Beech, furnishes the finest dark- leaved form, fit for small surroundings and for con- trast. It needs favorable sites to maintain its beauty. Several cut-leaved and pendulous varieties are rather attractive; espe- cially var. heterophylla (2116), and var. qucr- coides (211c), are beautiful, dense, low trees, with interestingly lobed Fig. -European Beech. Fagus silvatica 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
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