. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 114 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Fig. 22. high rural tastes of the people continue to produce their greatest variety and perfection. -With us they are never likely to be used to so great an extent for fences owing to the cost of maintaining them j but as ornamental and useful screens, and for other deco- rative purposes, there need be no limit to their variety. For these purposes some of the evergreens are best. The arbor-vitaes are peculiarly adapted for hedges and scr
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 114 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Fig. 22. high rural tastes of the people continue to produce their greatest variety and perfection. -With us they are never likely to be used to so great an extent for fences owing to the cost of maintaining them j but as ornamental and useful screens, and for other deco- rative purposes, there need be no limit to their variety. For these purposes some of the evergreens are best. The arbor-vitaes are peculiarly adapted for hedges and screens; especially for those of medium height, which are not intended to turn animals. The species and varieties of arbor-vitae are numer- ous, but it is doubtful if there is one among them all more valuable for this purpose than the indigenous American species which is found wild on the banks of the Hudson, and other eastern rivers; though it is claimed for the Siberian arbor-vitae, and with truth, that its foliage has a richer shade of green. There is a material difference in the value of different forms for hedges; and the kind of tree used, the purpose for which the hedge is intended, and the exposure it is to have, must influence the choice of one form rather than another. Fig. 22 represents a hedge-plant of the arbor-vitae as grown, say the third year after planting. It must now be decided what form the hedge is to have. Fig. 23 is a section of the most common, and, for the arbor-vitae and hemlock, in open exposures, a good form. But it is evi- dent that a hedge of this form gets less sun at the bottom than near the top, and the natural result is to pro- duce the weakest growth at the bottom, and finally that the lowest branches die out. The shaded parts of hemlocks, if contiguous to moisture, do not seem to suffer for want of the direct rays of the sun, but a majority of hedge- plants need a full and even light upon them. It is not merely the direct rays of the sun which a
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