. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING other means of positive identification, pose are Gray's "Manual of Botany". Good books for this pur- Sargent's ''Manual of the Trees of North Amer- ica"; McFarland's " Getting Acquainted with the ; The most impor- tant kinds of trees for landscape work are enumerated in the fol- lowing lists: Deciduous Trees "^^'i,^^^ Ash: Three or four species of native ash are excellent for mass planting on suitable soils, us
. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING other means of positive identification, pose are Gray's "Manual of Botany". Good books for this pur- Sargent's ''Manual of the Trees of North Amer- ica"; McFarland's " Getting Acquainted with the ; The most impor- tant kinds of trees for landscape work are enumerated in the fol- lowing lists: Deciduous Trees "^^'i,^^^ Ash: Three or four species of native ash are excellent for mass planting on suitable soils, usually bottom lands or wet situations. They are not so good as specimens or lawn trees. Beech: The native beech is a splendid tree where it can be grown. The purple-leaved beech and the fern-leaved beech are interesting curiosities and very satisfactory if one likes that sort of thing. Birch: Birches have long been favorite specimens for front lawns and cemeteries. This fact indicates how uncritical is the taste which selects them. From the standpoint of landscape gar- dening all the birches are excellent for woodland planting, especially for the borders of park woodlands. Catalpa: These trees are not very valuable except that they Fig. 114. The American Elm 236. 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 Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. ; [etc. , etc. ]
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