. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 240 TEE RENOVATION OF OLD Fig. 44. up old fir trees just high enough to give a clear view of the lawn under them, as shown by Fig. 44. The reader will observe that a glimpse of quite an extent of lawn is suggested under the branches of this tree. If, however, the branches rested upon the ground, the landscape vista would be effectually shut out. The advan- tage of this mode of treatment is principally on small grounds, for, were there space enough to secure ample lawn-views without it, we would
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. 240 TEE RENOVATION OF OLD Fig. 44. up old fir trees just high enough to give a clear view of the lawn under them, as shown by Fig. 44. The reader will observe that a glimpse of quite an extent of lawn is suggested under the branches of this tree. If, however, the branches rested upon the ground, the landscape vista would be effectually shut out. The advan- tage of this mode of treatment is principally on small grounds, for, were there space enough to secure ample lawn-views without it, we would by no means recommend this mode of securing them. In choosing which to cut out, and which to retain, let it be observed that a large tree of an inferior sort may be better worth preserving than a small or thin specimen of varieties that are otherwise superior. There is no more disagreeable impertinence to the cultivated eye than the growth of slender starved saplings planted under the branches of large trees, and striving to get to the sun and sky by thrusting themselves between the limbs of their superiors. As between a sugar-maple and a black oak, for in- stance, the former is by far the most beautiful and desirable species in all respects ; but, if you have a well branched large tree of the latter and only young sapling maples, we would sacrifice the sap- lings of the better breed for the mature beauty of the inferior oak. There is a dignity in big trunks, and loftiness, for which the pretti- ness of young trees is an unsatisfactory substitute. Everybody has heard of the countryman who went to see a city but "could not see the town, there were so many houses!" His quaint speech ludicrously suggests the main fault of most old places ; the multiplicity of their trees and shrubs conceal each other, so that they have little beauty either singly or in the mass; and they are rarely so arranged as to make the home they surround the centre of a sylvan picture. Wherever th
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