The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . naturalhedge-plant. The bark is extremely hard, and darkercolored than that of the red oak, but smooth whenyoung. The leaves, the form of which is shown byFig. 99, are smaller and lighter colored than mostoaks. When grown in open ground the lower branches droop tothe ground, and the light-green of its fine-cut foliage, the sharpnessof its stratified lights and shadows, and the general downwardsweep of its branches, altogether make it a pleasing
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . naturalhedge-plant. The bark is extremely hard, and darkercolored than that of the red oak, but smooth whenyoung. The leaves, the form of which is shown byFig. 99, are smaller and lighter colored than mostoaks. When grown in open ground the lower branches droop tothe ground, and the light-green of its fine-cut foliage, the sharpnessof its stratified lights and shadows, and the general downwardsweep of its branches, altogether make it a pleasing tree; and, inLoudons opinion, the most graceful of the oaks. This, however,is no great compliment, remembering that grace is not a character-istic of the oak family. Our cut gives the usual form of a youngpin oak, but does not indicate sufficiently the drooping habit ofthe lower branches. Willow Oak Group. Willow Oaks. Querais Fhellos.—These are seldom seen northof Philadelphia. There, and southward, they become large trees,whose dark bark and foliage give them a sombre veiy small, lanceolate, smooth edged, and 314 vEciBuoua trees. The Laurel-leaved Oak, Q. p. laurifolia^ is similar to theforegoing, but with larger leaves. Found principally in thesouthern States. The Shingle Oak, Q. imbricaria, is a species with smooth-edged, elliptic, pointed, glossy leaves, similar in form to the leaf ofthe chionanthus. It is a native of the middle States, especially theneighborhood of the Alleghanies, and becomes a tree forty to fiftyfeet in height. From Michaux description we infer that it wouldbe a desirable oak to introduce in small grounds. The Live Oak. Q. virens.—Unfortunately this magnificentevergreen of our southern coast is too tender to flourish for northof the Gulf of Mexico. It is a tree of medium height only, but ofimmense and grand expansion of trunk and branches. A writerin Lippincotts Magazine mentions a specimen on the Habershawplantation
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