The livable house, its garden . yellow and green and blue balls, cones, and pyramids,which present a bristling, unnatural look and contribute nothingof repose or dignity to the house. What could be less appro-priate, less calculated to make the house look as if it belonged toits particular bit of country, than this collection of specimenevergreens? Specimens is the term which most truly describesthem, and as such they should be placed in arboretums. An ex-clusively evergreen planting is always bad because the trees aretoo decided and definite in form; they need the more graceful,branching, dec
The livable house, its garden . yellow and green and blue balls, cones, and pyramids,which present a bristling, unnatural look and contribute nothingof repose or dignity to the house. What could be less appro-priate, less calculated to make the house look as if it belonged toits particular bit of country, than this collection of specimenevergreens? Specimens is the term which most truly describesthem, and as such they should be placed in arboretums. An ex-clusively evergreen planting is always bad because the trees aretoo decided and definite in form; they need the more graceful,branching, deciduous things to tie them together. The chief quality on which evergreens rely for their popularity—the quality which endears them to most people—is their ever-greenness. And, indeed, their color in the winter landscape isvery desirable, but other colors than green contribute cheer towinters dullness—and shrubs with colored berries and branchesmay be combined with the evergreens into a much more pleasing [52] / / s G a d. w HH CO >-. V-( O :3 o a X w Uh w a3(—1 X HH ; ^^^ CTi ?<: a p ^^ o ^ ^r/o ^ ^H c/T ^HH OJ (^ -^o o ^ k; flj ^-^ o o 1—1 o H «-v <1 5v ^ O P O O tn tq rJ(6ife [53] The Livable House and natural-looking planting than one of evergreens alone. Thisis true of rhododendrons as well as of conifers, for a house whichrises up out of a heavy somber bank of broad-leaved evergreensfits as poorly into the landscape as one whose base is concealedby ranks of little conifers. Some of the berried shrubs which add to the agreeable appear-ance of a foundation planting, as much by their graceful habitof branching as by their colored fruits, are the barberries—Thun-bergii and vulgaris; high bush cranberry (viburnum opulus),which provides from its bright clusters food for the birds allwinter long; other members of the viburnum family: dentatum orarrow-wood, plicatum, tomentosum, and Carlesii, which has awonderfully fragrant flower; the honeysuckle
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