. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. CHARACTERISTICS OF TREES. 287 lumpish globular types which are commonly admired. But there are trees which lose, or never have, symmetry of form, and, like some of our other acquaintances, are interesting for their oddi- ties. Look, for instance, at the accompanying cut of the strag- gling elm, which is a portrait from nature, and the portrait of Parson's weeping beech, on page 328. The latter is a luxuriant mass of pendant branches and foliage, erratic in all directions, and yet one of the most interes
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. CHARACTERISTICS OF TREES. 287 lumpish globular types which are commonly admired. But there are trees which lose, or never have, symmetry of form, and, like some of our other acquaintances, are interesting for their oddi- ties. Look, for instance, at the accompanying cut of the strag- gling elm, which is a portrait from nature, and the portrait of Parson's weeping beech, on page 328. The latter is a luxuriant mass of pendant branches and foliage, erratic in all directions, and yet one of the most interesting of young trees. It is bizarre, like the expressions of a wit. Its unlikeness to other trees is its superiority; but the exuberant vigor that clothes it with such masses of glossy foliage, adds to picturesqueness the constant loveableness of beautiful health. Of the trees which by nature grow irregularly, the native larch, or hacmatack, is a familiar ex- ample, its head generally shooting off to one side after it attains a certain height. The osage orange is so rambling that it suggests a comparison with those eccentric geniuses who, having decided talents in many different directions, attempt to follow them all, and whose successes or failures are equally interesting to observers. Many specimens of the weeping elm, while young, like the wild and not unusual form shown by Fig. 76, are fine examples of erratic luxuriance, but they usually fill up, with age, and finally become models of symmetry. Trees are often made picturesque by accidents, as the breaking of trunks or important branches by summer tor- nados, or the falling of other trees upon them. Fig. 78 is an example from nature of a white oak upwards of three feet in diameter, which, when young, was bent by the fall of some great tree that rested upon it, until all the fibres of its wood had conformed to the forced position. Fig. 79 is another sketch from nature of an oak that has been robbed of a part of its main trun
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