. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 379 heated summer air, its white bark glistening through the bright foliage and sparkli
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 379 heated summer air, its white bark glistening through the bright foliage and sparkling in the sun, to enable one to form a true im- pression of its character. Professor Wilson in his " Isle of Palms " thus alludes to a birch tree : -on the green slope Of a romantic glade, we sate us down, Amid tlie fragrance of tlie yellow broom ; While o'er our heads the weeping birch tree streamed Its branches-^ arching like a fountain showery This birch is one of the most rapid growers among ornamental trees, attaining a height of thirty feet in ten years. The European Weeping Birch. £. pendula.—This is the old weeping variety of the birch, and nearly all the encomiums of the preceding newer variety will apply to this, which would be perfect— "were t'other dear charmer ; The former is a little more •delicate and decided in each of the peculiarities tha:t make them both beautiful. Both of them are of more vigorous habit than our own very pretty white or mountain birch. They will probably grow sixty to seventy feet high, with a breadth of head somewhat less. The engraving of the preceding variety illustrates also the usual form of the common weeping birch when from thirty to forty feet high; which height they are likely to attain in ten or twelve years after planting. Fig. 119, The European White Birch. B. alba, (Fig. 119.)—This is the common wild birch of the continent, from which the above beautiful varieties have sprung. It forms a tree so
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