The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . eaves are quite freefrom the attacks of insects. A cultivated treein rich, ground differs so much from the samesort growing in the woods, that it is scarcely recognizable as thesame; changing from a straggling small-k-avcd, thin-foliaged,scrawny little tree, to one of the most luxuriant of low-spreadingtrees. The engraving. Fig. 142, is a portrait characteristic of theappearance of the tree when young ; the specimen from which itwas drawn having
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . eaves are quite freefrom the attacks of insects. A cultivated treein rich, ground differs so much from the samesort growing in the woods, that it is scarcely recognizable as thesame; changing from a straggling small-k-avcd, thin-foliaged,scrawny little tree, to one of the most luxuriant of low-spreadingtrees. The engraving. Fig. 142, is a portrait characteristic of theappearance of the tree when young ; the specimen from which itwas drawn having been planted but six years. As it increases inage the head becomes more oblate and distinctly parasol-like. Theseeds of the tree are contained in bean-like pods from four to sixinches long, which hang on the tree through the winter. Height,at maturity, from twelve to eighteen feet; breadth of head twentyto thirty feet. The English Judas-tree, Cercis siliquasfrum, is quite similarto the above, the leaves being a little smaller and the flowersdarker. The latter have an agreeable acid taste, and are mixedin salads, or fried in batter as DECIDUOUS TREES. 437 THE HALESIA, SNOWDROP, OR SILVER-BELL TREE. Halesia tetraptera.
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