. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 29- A COMPARISON OF THE Fig. â ^ 1', ^>hi f Mf^iif^ from the ground. The linden tree when old, and the common dog-wood {Conius jlorida), have similar lines of shadows. If we classify trees by their surface lights and shadows alone, they will divide into three classes, viz: first, those whose lights and shadows fall in lines approaching the vertical; second, those which divide into strata horizontally; third, those ^"^>^^ which break into irregular masses. The Lom- ^T^*s^ hardy poplar will be
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 29- A COMPARISON OF THE Fig. â ^ 1', ^>hi f Mf^iif^ from the ground. The linden tree when old, and the common dog-wood {Conius jlorida), have similar lines of shadows. If we classify trees by their surface lights and shadows alone, they will divide into three classes, viz: first, those whose lights and shadows fall in lines approaching the vertical; second, those which divide into strata horizontally; third, those ^"^>^^ which break into irregular masses. The Lom- ^T^*s^ hardy poplar will be the type of the former, the common beech. Fig. 88, of the second, and the white oak of the latter. Most evergreen trees belong to the second group. The first class comprises a comparatively small number of trees, but many which belong to one of the last two groups at maturity, are members of the first when young. The cedar of Lebanon is the most remarkable of trees in the second class. It is the embodiment of majesty in its class, as the oak of the third class. Of our native trees, the white pine is the grandest type among evergreens east of the Rocky Mountains, of trees with stratified shadows, as the beech is among deciduous trees. The pin oak is a fa- miliar example of stratified foliage. Its foliage layers are as distinctly marked as those of the beech, but its branches droop more ; and are so twiggy, thorny, and inter-tangled, that its expression is ruder and its shadows less noble than those of the pine or beech. The Nor- way spruce and the hemlock, though the small spray falls with plume-like grace, and the branches droop from the trunk, divide into masses of light and shadow in nearly horizontal lines. All the trees which main- tain this stratified character of shadows have more sameness of outline and monot- ony of expression than those which break into larger and irregular masses. The weeping willow, when full grown, with all its delicacy of foliage and. Please note
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