. 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. 559 we have seen noble native growths of the red cedar. On Kelley's Island there were formerly trees with trunks thirty inches in diameter. It is also found of large size in the valley of the Ohio. The Weeping Red Cedar, y. virginiana pendu
. 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. 559 we have seen noble native growths of the red cedar. On Kelley's Island there were formerly trees with trunks thirty inches in diameter. It is also found of large size in the valley of the Ohio. The Weeping Red Cedar, y. virginiana pendula (J. viri- dissinia poidula).—This variety is distinguished by more slender branches, of which the young twigs and growing wood are pen- dulous. It has a free, loose, irregularly conical growth, that promises, on rich soils, to make it a spirited old tree. The foliage is of a decidedly yellowish tone of green. It seems likely to prove the most interesting of the red cedars. The Glaucous Red Cedar. J. virginia7ia glauca (y. ciner- escefis ?J.—This is simply a variety of the common cedar, with decidedly bluish-green and abundant foliage, in pleasing contrast with the warm green of the preceding variety. The Compact Red Cedar, % v. pyramidalis, is a variety described as having an unusually fastigiate habit. The Variegated Red Cedar. J. v. variegata.—Of this we know nothing more than that its foliage is said to be " deeply variegated with a golden ; The above, we believe, are the most noted varieties of our red cedar which have been honored with names, and all become medium-sized trees. The White Cedar, well known as a swamp timber tree, is classed by botanists with the cypress family as Cupressus thyoides, under which head it may be found. The English Juniper, jf. communis vulgaris. Fig —^This is a spreading, shrubby bush, usually from three to ten feet high, and generally of little beauty, though it sports occasionally into pleasing forms. The Swedish J
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