. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. SPRING EFFECTS ON THJi EAWN. 43 There are several varieties of double-iioweriug apples, soraeA^dth blooms more oi' less shaded A\nth pink, souk- I'ed, and others Avith leaves variegated. AuculxpfoUn is an instance of the last form, and among the others are. SOULANGE'S MAGNOLIA, (magnolia soulangeana. )


. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. SPRING EFFECTS ON THJi EAWN. 43 There are several varieties of double-iioweriug apples, soraeA^dth blooms more oi' less shaded A\nth pink, souk- I'ed, and others Avith leaves variegated. AuculxpfoUn is an instance of the last form, and among the others are. SOULANGE'S MAGNOLIA, (magnolia soulangeana. ) coronaria odorata, (loul)le pink, double ciinison, and, above all, JfcdtLs Halhami' and spectahil'iH from Japan, wdth flowei's of a deep livel}' rose at the liase, and a lighter shade at the edges. This last is unquestionably the most ornamental of the double-Howe ring apples. The old A\diite double-flowering cherry is anothei' earl}- and most cha]-ming tree, onl)' su]T) in form by the highl_v-[irized Aveepiug cherry of Japan, the flowers of \vhich, howevei', ai'e smaller and more pink than those of our flo\\^ering cherry. Double- flowei'ing cherries, jieaches, and plums are all attractive at this season. The Japan Judas ti'ee nuist receive a distinguished position among the early spiing flowers of any lawn, for. 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 Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons


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