. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 942 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. shapes, with round heads; the English elm and ash have long narrow forms, and round heads ; the beech and horse-chestnut, compact ovate forms, with obtuse heads; the spruce and pine tribes, in general, have conical sh
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 942 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. shapes, with round heads; the English elm and ash have long narrow forms, and round heads ; the beech and horse-chestnut, compact ovate forms, with obtuse heads; the spruce and pine tribes, in general, have conical shapes, and pointed spiry tops; the Lombardy poplar, cypress, and most willows, have long narrow shapes, and oblong tops. 6798. Color. The Scotch pine, yew, and horse-chestnut, are dark-green ; the larch and elm, a yellow-green ; the abele, Huntingdon willow, a silvery-green, &c. 6799. Mode and time of growth. The nature of some trees is to lose their lower branches as they increase in height, as the fir tribe ; and others have a tendency to retain them, as the wych elm. In some the branches descend, and often recline on the ground, as the lime-tree and platanus. Some are very compact in their foliage, as the horse- chestnut ; others very open, as the ash and acacia. Some have drooping spray, as the weeping-willow ; that of others tend upwards, as in the Lombardy poplar ; horizontally, as in the oak ; and obliquely, as in the Scotch pine. Some grow with rapidity, as the Carolina and Athenian poplars ; others very slowly, as the oak and the stone pine. 6800. Duration. The most durable of trees is the oak; the least so, some of the poplar and fir tribes. A medium is to be found in the elm and lime. 6801. Expression. Some trees convey ideas of utility in the arts, and mark the attention and industry of man, as having planted them for this purpose, as the oak, ash, elm, &c. Others are known, or supposed to be of little use, and convey ideas of neglect or of wild- ness, as th
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