The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . heerful EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 549 purity of color which distin-guishes a young hemlock tree,it assumes with age a sombretone. This expression, how-ever, is rarely acquired beforeit is thirty to forty years old,and may readily be counter-acted by planting the Chinesewistaria, Virginia creeper, ortrumpet creeper at its will speedily intermin-gle the rich drapery of theirlighter-colored foliage, and falllike pendants from the highe
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . heerful EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 549 purity of color which distin-guishes a young hemlock tree,it assumes with age a sombretone. This expression, how-ever, is rarely acquired beforeit is thirty to forty years old,and may readily be counter-acted by planting the Chinesewistaria, Virginia creeper, ortrumpet creeper at its will speedily intermin-gle the rich drapery of theirlighter-colored foliage, and falllike pendants from the highest boughs of the following are varieties of our native hemlock:Large-leaved Hemlock. A. c. macrophylla.—This is distin-guished in the nursery by larger leaves and denser growth than thecommon hemlock, but whether it will exhibit peculiarities to renderit worthy a distinct name is a question to be determined by longercultivation. The Slender-dwarf Hemlock. A. c. microphylla, or A. —A small-leaved, slender-branched, very dwarf variety thatlooks thin and uninteresting when young, but may possibly havesome value at Parsons Dwarf Hem-lock. Abies c. Parsoni.—This is a very pretty dwarf,noticeable for the symmet-rical out-curve of its slenderbranches. Sargents c. Sargenti.—This bidsfair to be one of the mostcurious and interesting ad-ditions to our stock of gar-denesque evergreens—bear-ins the same relation to the Fig. 175.
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