. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 3G4 DECIDUOUS TREES. one hundred and fifty feet. There is a noble old specimen north of the Casino, in the New York Central Park, which exhibits all the beauties and foults of the species. There are many other species and varieties of poplars which are not distinguished by peculiarities or merits that make it desira- ble to enumerate them. THE WHITEWOOD OR TULIP TREE. tidipifera. Liriodendron Fig. 113, A tree of lofty stature, straight and erect trunk, and exceeding beauty of foliage. In its early growt
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 3G4 DECIDUOUS TREES. one hundred and fifty feet. There is a noble old specimen north of the Casino, in the New York Central Park, which exhibits all the beauties and foults of the species. There are many other species and varieties of poplars which are not distinguished by peculiarities or merits that make it desira- ble to enumerate them. THE WHITEWOOD OR TULIP TREE. tidipifera. Liriodendron Fig. 113, A tree of lofty stature, straight and erect trunk, and exceeding beauty of foliage. In its early growth the beauty of its leaves, which are of singular form, their unusual purity of color and perfect texture, and the smooth and symmetric growth of the trunk and branches, all combine to form an ele- gant tree. Yet its head does not usually break into such dense masses of verdure as those of the maples, the horse-chestnuts, and the hickories. Fig. 113 shows a re- markably pretty specimen of a whitewood, about twenty years old, and gives the forms of the leaves, flowers, and seed-vessels. As it becomes an old tree, the branches bend in downward sweep, rising at their extrem- ities, and tending somewhat to unequal lengths, form an outline at once irregu- lar and symmetrical, lofty and graceful. The play of light and shade among the openings of its boughs is similar in expres- sion to that which Loudon (as quoted on page 385) has char- acterized in describing the foliage of the European plane tree ; though that of the whitewood forms into somewhat more rounded masses. The leaves burst their buds about a week later than those of the sugar maple. They are from five to eight inches in width, and of a peculiarly square form, as will be seen from the above cut. In texture and color they are of that perfect type. 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
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