. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : 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. 378 DECIDUOUS TREES. rays of the sun, is the most essential requisite in growing beautiful magnolias. If the reader remembers what is contained in Chapter XVIII, on growing half-hardy trees, and will follow its sugges- tions, there need be little fear of failure in
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : 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. 378 DECIDUOUS TREES. rays of the sun, is the most essential requisite in growing beautiful magnolias. If the reader remembers what is contained in Chapter XVIII, on growing half-hardy trees, and will follow its sugges- tions, there need be little fear of failure in growing this tropical family of great-leaved trees in most portions of the northern States. THE BIRCH. Beiula. The lightness, grace, and delicacy of some of the birch family, in bark, branching, and foliage, is proverbial; and yet, within a few years, new varieties have been introduced that fairly surpass the acknowledged charms of the older members. Contrary to our ordinary habit of naming the best native varieties first, we shall begin with that most exquisite of modern sylvan belles— The Cut-leaved Weeping Birch. £. laclanata pendula.— Wherever known, this tree stands the ac- lis. knowledged queen of all the airy graces with which lightsome trees coquette with the sky and the summer air. It lacks no charm essential to its rank. Erect, slender, tall, it gains height only to bend its silvery spray with a caressing grace on every side. Like our magnificent weeping elm, but lighter, smaller, and brighter in all its features, it rapidly lifts its head among its compeers till it over-tops them, and then spreads its branches, drooping and subdividing into the most delicate silvery branchlets, whose pen- sile grace is only equalled by those of the weeping willow. Fig. ii8 illustrates its common form about ten years after planting. We regret being unable to present an engraving that will suggest the airy grace of this tree. No engraving could do it justice. Like the palm tree of
Size: 1326px × 1883px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectlandsca, bookyear1881
