. 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. they are firmly intertwined at the top, which is usually in about two years' growth, the clipping of the
. 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. they are firmly intertwined at the top, which is usually in about two years' growth, the clipping of the sides and tops can be going on to bring the arch to a form like that of Fig. 32, or to any similar design the proprietor may desire. An arch like the latter figure may be brought to considera- ble perfection in the course of ten years. Fig. 33 shows the probable appearance that a hemlock archway would present in twenty years after planting, supposing- the trees were allowed to develop more naturally after their artificial char- acter was well established. Such arches increase in quaint beauty as they grow old, and after the first ten years will need- but little care. Fig. 34,. as we have already mentioned in Chapter VI, is intended to show another effect, which may be produced with the same side trees, by joining and twisting together two side branches to form the arch, leaving the main stems to form two spiry sides, and trim- ming to produce this form. Another mode that, if well executed, would produce a curi- ous effect, is to unite the main stems as in the first mode, but instead of twisting them to grow vertically over the middle of the gate, the twist should be made hori- zontally, so that the tops would project sideways, as shown farther on for elm- tree arches. This in time would develop into a wide crescent, inverted over the arch, or it might be likened to a pair of huge horns guarding the arch. The variety of novel forms that such trees can be made to assume after te
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