. 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. /*?^»ysy^?f THE SOPHORA. Sophora. The Japan Sophora. Sophofa japonica.—Considering the delicacy of its foliage, its purity and depth of color, and the hardi- ness of the tree, it is curious that so few fine specimens of this tree are yet to be seen in this country. Fi
. 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. /*?^»ysy^?f THE SOPHORA. Sophora. The Japan Sophora. Sophofa japonica.—Considering the delicacy of its foliage, its purity and depth of color, and the hardi- ness of the tree, it is curious that so few fine specimens of this tree are yet to be seen in this country. Fig. 123 is the portrait of a full-grown tree in the Syon Park, England. We have heard of no large specimens in this country. The tree here shown * was fifty- seven feet high, eighty-four feet wide across its branches, and four and one-half feet diameter of trunk. This size is probably its greatest, as nearly all the trees growing in that famous park attain unusual dimensions. The foliage of the sophora closely resembles that of the common locust, but is a little darker. The young wood From Loudon's Arboretum Britannicum, Vol. V, p. 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 Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919. New York, John B. Alden
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