. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 400 DECIDUOUS TREES. Fig. thicker in texture, more deeply lobed, as shown on Fig. 125, and glossier than the leaves of the maple. This engraving is a portrait of a fine specimen about forty years old, growing in the grounds of T. S, Shepherd, Esq., at Orienta, near Mamaroneck, N. Y. It was transplanted to its present location from an adjoining field when the trunk was nearly twelve inches in diameter, and has become a luxuriant tree again. During the summer the tree may be easily mistaken for an unusual
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 400 DECIDUOUS TREES. Fig. thicker in texture, more deeply lobed, as shown on Fig. 125, and glossier than the leaves of the maple. This engraving is a portrait of a fine specimen about forty years old, growing in the grounds of T. S, Shepherd, Esq., at Orienta, near Mamaroneck, N. Y. It was transplanted to its present location from an adjoining field when the trunk was nearly twelve inches in diameter, and has become a luxuriant tree again. During the summer the tree may be easily mistaken for an unusually dark and glossy-leaved sugar maple, but is distinguished from it not only by the peculiarities of its leaves, already men- tioned, but by the curious appearance of its secondary branches to which the bark is attached in corky ridges as on the cork-barked elm, giving the branches a more rugged appearance. The tree is found from New Hampshire to the Isthmus of Darien ; but it is only at the south that a characteristic which gives the tree its name is observed. A fragrant gum there exudes from its bark, which resembles liquidamber, and the tree was so named by the Spanish naturalist who first described it, Downing's enthusiastic description of this tree is so good that we transcribe it for the reader. "We hardly know a more beautiful tree than the liquidamber in every stage of its growth, and during every season of the year. Its outline is not picturesque or graceful, but simply beautiful ; * * * it is, therefore, a highly pleasing round-headed or taper- ing tree, which unites and harmonizes well with almost any other in composition ; but the chief beauty lies in the foliage. During the whole of the summer months it preserves unsoiled that dark glossy freshness which is so delightful to the eye; while the singular, regularly palmate form of the leaves readily distinguishes it from the^ common trees of a plantation. But in autumn it assumes its gayest livery, and is decked
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