. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 437 THE HALESIA, SNOWDROP, OR SiLVER-BELL TREE. Halesia Low-spreading tree
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 437 THE HALESIA, SNOWDROP, OR SiLVER-BELL TREE. Halesia Low-spreading trees, blossoming Fig. 143. in April and May, with a profusion of pure white pendant flowers resembling those of the snowdrop. They are about five-eighths of an inch in length, and harig in clusters on the last year's wood. Fig. 143 gives a good idea of the form and style of a tree of this species fifteen or twenty years old, and of the forms of the leaves, flowers, and seed capsules. The latter are shown one- fifth the natural size, and the leaves one-twelfth. During the autumn, or last part of the summer, the head is covered with the four-winged seeds or capsules that distin- guish the tree at that season. The leaves are about the size of those of the syringa, of a fine healthy color, without gloss, and, when the tree is thrifty and mature, mass well. There is a fine old specimen in the New York Central Park, near one of the walks to the Ramble, that is about fifteen feet high and more than thirty feet across the spread of its branches, which rest upon the ground. There is a large specimen on the grounds of Miss Price, near Germantown, Pa., which, though badly shaded by other trees, has a trunk sixteen inches in diameter, top twenty-five feet high, and is fifty feet across the greatest extension of its branches! There are higher trees of this species in England, but none on record of so great diameter. The Two-winged Fruited Halesia or Snowdrop, H. diptera, is a smaller tree, wit
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