. 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. 138 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Perhaps the most beautiful of all small trees for such purposes is the wee
. 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. 138 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Perhaps the most beautiful of all small trees for such purposes is the weeping Japan sophora. It is grafted from seven to ten feet , high on other stocks,; and for many years its growth is slow; but if one will have the patience to wait, a more charming and' curious bower can be made with a circle of sophoras than of any tree we know of. An engraving of this variety may be found in the de- scription of the species, Part II, Chapter III. We have named only a few of the trees which may be made use of for growing these artificial bowers. For very small grounds there are many arboreous shrubs which may be used to produce similar effects on the inside, and appear as naturally grown groups on the outside. Single apple trees sometimes form great bowers with their own branches alone. There is a beautiful specimen of this kind in the grounds of W. S. Little, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y. It is an old tree of the twenty ounce pippin variety. At the height of seven or eight feet its branches spread horizontally, and finally bend to the ground on all sides, enclosing in deep shadow a circular space forty feet wide; an ajched opening is made on one side. A sketch of this tree is given in the engraving at the end of this chapter. Elms may be used with good effect for arches of a larger growth than those already suggest- ed. The adjoining sketch. Fig. 39, will illustrate one. mode of procedure, where there is room for large trees. Two common weeping elms are to be chos
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