. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. clearly-defined masses of light and shade, but the masses are small—too narrow and too nu- merous to produce the grand effects of the larger openings in the oak and chestnut, though our cut shows larger lights and shadows than are usual in the maple. The brighter green and more abundant foliage of the maple make amends for this inferiority, but it is none the less an inferiority. An examination of the structure of these trees in winter will show why the oak and the c
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. clearly-defined masses of light and shade, but the masses are small—too narrow and too nu- merous to produce the grand effects of the larger openings in the oak and chestnut, though our cut shows larger lights and shadows than are usual in the maple. The brighter green and more abundant foliage of the maple make amends for this inferiority, but it is none the less an inferiority. An examination of the structure of these trees in winter will show why the oak and the chestnut mass their foliage more nobly. It is because they have fewer and larger branches, not radiating like those of the maple with uniform divergence, but breaking out here and there at right angles with the part from which they issue. The consequence is, that when they are in leaf, the projecting leaf surfaces and the shadow openings are larger and nobler in expression. The hick- ories are all observable for the massiveness of their lights and shadows, and, unlike the chestnut, they assume this character while yet young. By the shadows alone it would not be easy to distinguish a hickory from an oak or chestnut, though they are readily distinguishable at sight by difference of contour—the hickory being proportionally taller and squarer than the others. There is, however, a difference in the shadows that close observers will mark: the wood being more elastic, the branches of old trees bend to form curved lines, which give the shadows a similar general di- rection, as will be seen on Fig. S6. This effect may be seen in many other trees, and is more noticeable in the lower than the upper part of the tree. There are many species which can be distinguished readily by this peculiarity in their shadows in connection with their contours. The sassafras. Fig. 87, naturally takes an umbrella form of head, and its foliage divides into cur- vilinear strata, or rather appears so as see
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