. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 439 forms, or the number of differing varieties, we find them equally adapted to beautify small grounds. No one family of trees furnishes so many pretty specimen small trees for a lawn ; ranging in size from the smallest shrubs to middle-sized trees—some of them almost evergreen. All the species require a dry, rich soil; in which their annual growth for the first ten years will be from one to two feet a year. Fig. 145. The Cockspur Thorn, C. cnis-galli, Fig. 145, is the most interesting
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 439 forms, or the number of differing varieties, we find them equally adapted to beautify small grounds. No one family of trees furnishes so many pretty specimen small trees for a lawn ; ranging in size from the smallest shrubs to middle-sized trees—some of them almost evergreen. All the species require a dry, rich soil; in which their annual growth for the first ten years will be from one to two feet a year. Fig. 145. The Cockspur Thorn, C. cnis-galli, Fig. 145, is the most interesting of indigenous species. All its varieties will assume a distinct tree-form, though some of them are but shrubs in size. The breadth of their heads is usually greater than their height, and their forms vary from globular to squarish-oblate. Their greatest height and breadth is about thirty feet, but usually not more than from twelve to twenty feet. This species is distinguished by thicker and glossier leaves, more entire in outline than the other sorts; being more or less serrate, but not lobed. The thorns are single, long, and very sharp. At maturity the branches, which are numerous, have a horizontal direction, and the lights and shadows are in thin, sharply defined, and generally level lines like those of the beech tree. We have seen wild groves of these thorns, in western openings, which by the aid of sheep had become exquisite bits of park scenery, llie sheep had fed on their sweet leaves as high as they could reach from beneath, so that the under sides of the trees were as level as the pasture below them. Above this level line the trees spread in stratified lines of foliage entirely in har- mony with the polished and artificial cut of their bases. Their broad heads, so close to the lawn, and yet with a clearly defined space above it, make shadows of great depth, which bring the lights around them into bright relief The most peculiar varieties are the C. c. splendens, not
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