. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. 530 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. of the larger forms of mugho pine, but is entered on their catalogue simply as Finns imdnata ereda. It has the deepest pure green color we have ever seen in an evergreen, and as there grown, in rich, cultivated ground, there is a velv
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. 530 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. of the larger forms of mugho pine, but is entered on their catalogue simply as Finns imdnata ereda. It has the deepest pure green color we have ever seen in an evergreen, and as there grown, in rich, cultivated ground, there is a velvety depth in the shadings of its foliage that we have never seen surpassed. May this not be the. P. m. uliginosa of Gordon ? The specimen which is given in the engraving is about eighteen feet high, and bids fair to greatly exceed this height at maturity. How much of the beauty of this specimen depends on the unusual fertility of the soil in which it grows, and how much on the innate character of the species, we cannot tell. Possiblv in a common soil, the richness of its dark verdure might change to sombreness. The Mountain Pine. Finns pumilio.—Described by Gordon as follows: " Leaves in two's, curved, short, stiff, thickly set on the branches, from two to two-and-a-half inches long, etc. Branches turned upwards and very numerous, forming a dense bush, with the. 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 perfectly resemble the original Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919. New York : American Book Exchange, Tribune Building
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