. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. CHAPTER I. A COMPAEISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TREES. " I care not how men trace their ancestry, To Ape or Adam; let them please their whim; But I in June am midway to believe A Tree among my far progenitors ; Such sympathy is mine with all the race. Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times f When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend to me, and call me cousin. Murmuring faint lullabies of eldest time For
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. CHAPTER I. A COMPAEISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TREES. " I care not how men trace their ancestry, To Ape or Adam; let them please their whim; But I in June am midway to believe A Tree among my far progenitors ; Such sympathy is mine with all the race. Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us. Surely there are times f When they consent to own me of their kin, And condescend to me, and call me cousin. Murmuring faint lullabies of eldest time Forgotten, and yet durably felt with thrills Moving the lips, though fruitless of the ; Lowell. WHEN one reflects that among all the millions of human beings that have existed no two have been alike, and that all their illimitable varieties of ex- pression are produced by the varied combinations of only half a dozen features, within a space of six inches by eight, it ought not to be difficult to conceive the endless diversity of char- acter that may be exhibited among trees, with their multitude^ features and forms, their oddities of bark, limb, and twig, tlmr infinitude of leaves and blossoms of all sizes, forms, and shades of color, their towering sky outlines, and their ever-varying lights and shadows. There are subtle expressions in trees, as in the human face, that it is difficult to analyze or account for. A face, no one feature of which is pleasing, often charms us by the expression of an inward spirit which lights it. May we not claim for all living nature, as our great poet Bryant suggests in the following lines, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scott, Frank Jesup, 1828- [from old catalog]. New York, D. Appleton & co.
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