. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 553 The Pyramidal Silver Fir. P. p. pyramidata.—Another German variety, a little less fastigiate than the preceding, with a pendulous tendency in the smaller shoots. The Tortuous Silver Fir. P. p. tortuosa.—A German variety, with crooked an
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 553 The Pyramidal Silver Fir. P. p. pyramidata.—Another German variety, a little less fastigiate than the preceding, with a pendulous tendency in the smaller shoots. The Tortuous Silver Fir. P. p. tortuosa.—A German variety, with crooked and tortuous branches and branchlets. The Oblate Dwarf Silver Fir. P. p. amipada. (P. p. nana 2)—This is a charming, very low dwarf variety; so broad and low, that we have ventured to add to its title the word oblate to make the name more characteristic of the form, which is in breadth nearly double its height. The color is a very warm, almost golden, green. Height from two to three feet. The Cilician Silver Fir. Picea cilicica (P. leioclada).—This is a very distinct, and ver}' beautiful species, from the mountains of Asia Minor. Gordon describes it as " a handsome tree of a pyra- midal shape, thickly furnished with vertical branches to the ground, and growing fifty feet high, and three feet in ; The branches are thickly set on the stems, and the branchlets are much more irregular and intermingled than those of the common silver fir. A fine specimen, growing in the grounds of Parsons & Co. at Flushing, L. I., has a form and expression such as one might imagine from a cross between the sturdy Cephalonian fir and the graceful Himalayan spruce. It seems to us that it will make a tree of more graceful outline and varied shadows than the old silver fir; but its mature character, as an ornamental tree, and its hardiness, cannot yet be determined. The Cephalonian Fir. Picea Cephalonica.—This hardy and sturdy-looking evergreen takes a somewhat similar ran
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