. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. -378 DECIDUOUS TREES. Tays of the sun, is the most essential requisite in growing beautiful magnolias. I
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. -378 DECIDUOUS TREES. Tays of the sun, is the most essential requisite in growing beautiful magnolias. If the reader remembei's what is contained in Chapter XVIII, on growing half-hardy trees, and will follow its sugges- tions, there need be little fear of failure in growing this tropical family of great-leaved trees in most portions of the northern â States. THE BIRCH. Beiula. The lightness, grace, and delicacy of some of the birch family, in bark, branching, and foliage, is proverbial; and yet, within a few years, new varieties have been introduced that fairly surpass the acknowledged charms of the older members. Contrary to our ordinary habit of naming the best native varieties first, we shall begin with that most exquisite of modern sylvan bellesâ The Cut-leaved Weeping Birch. £. lacianata fendula.â Wherever known, this tree stands the ac- FiG. 118. knowledged queen of all the airy graces with which lightsome trees coquette with the sky and the summer air. It lacks no charm essential to its rank. Erect, slender, tall, it gains height only to bend its silvery spray with a caressing grace on every side. Like our magnificent weeping elm, but lighter, smaller, and brighter in all its features, it rapidly lifts its head among its compeers till it overtops them, and then spreads its branches, drooping and subdividing into the most dfelicate silvery branchlets, whose pen- sile grace is only equalled by those of the weeping willow. Fig. ii8 illustrates its common form about ten
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