The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . s, into fancifulforms for gateway and garden arches,verdant pavilions, and bowers. As ever-greens are most constantly beautiful forsuch purposes, we will first call attention toa few forms in which they may be hemlock can be treated as illustratedby Figs. 31, 32, and 2)Zi which we here re-peat. The first represents two hemlockswhich have been planted two feet away from,and on each side of an ordinary five or six years grow
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . s, into fancifulforms for gateway and garden arches,verdant pavilions, and bowers. As ever-greens are most constantly beautiful forsuch purposes, we will first call attention toa few forms in which they may be hemlock can be treated as illustratedby Figs. 31, 32, and 2)Zi which we here re-peat. The first represents two hemlockswhich have been planted two feet away from,and on each side of an ordinary five or six years growth they may behigh enough to begin work upon. A crotch-ed stick about two feet shorter than the dis-tance of the trees apart, is stretched from oneto another, from six to seven feet from the ground, and fixed thereto keep the tops apart up to that point. Above the stick, the tops(supposing that they are tall enough to admit of it) are to be benttowards each other until they join, then twisted together, and tiedso that they cannot untwist. To do this so as to form a gracefularch, the trees must be about eleven or twelve feet high. After Fig. 122 ARTIFICIAL ADAFTATIOys OF
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