. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. 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. DECIDUOUS TREES. 417 French chateaux the black mulberry was always planted for their benefit. The leaves are particularly agreeable to cattle, as well as to silkworms. The species of mulberry are not numerous, but the varieties are almost innumerable, though their dif
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. 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. DECIDUOUS TREES. 417 French chateaux the black mulberry was always planted for their benefit. The leaves are particularly agreeable to cattle, as well as to silkworms. The species of mulberry are not numerous, but the varieties are almost innumerable, though their differences are of little conse- quence in decorative Fig. 134. The American Red Mul- berry Tree, Moms rubra, is sometimes called the Pennsyl- vania mulberry. This is quite the largest and finest ornamen- tal tree of the genus. In the forest it sometimes grows to seventy feet in height, but in open ground assumes a low- spreading form of umbellifer- ous character, as indicated by Fig. 133, which is a portrait of a good specimen at twenty-five or thirty years of age. The leaves are quite large, nearly equal to those of the catalpa, generally heart-shaped, but often with two or three lobes, as shown by Fig. 134, of a dark-green color, thick texture, and rough surface. The fruit is deep red, oblong, and of good flavor. The trunk of the tree has deeply-fiuTowed bark, with a tinge of green in its color, and the main branches have a rugged ramification like those of the oak. The leaves make their appearance late in the spring, but, like those of the horse-chestnut, develop with great luxuriance as soon as they burst the bud, and then remain on the tree till killed by hard frosts. They are not considered of any value for the silkworm. As an ornamental tree this mulberry is one of the most do- mestic in expression, luxuriant in foliage, and noble in the distri- bution of its lights and shadows among our medium-sized trees. That it is a fruit-bearing tree is something against it
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