. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 505. THE VALLEY-ROAD OAK OF ORANGE, N. J. tively poor, were sadly valuable for ship-timber, and therefore sacrificed on the altars of profit and utility. Trees grown to great size in the forest cannot be preserved when their supporting trees are cut from around them, and we must therefore leave to future centuries to record to what size the trees now growing in open ground may eventually attain. The Wadsworth oak, near Gen- esee, N. Y., the valley-road oak of Orange, N. J., of which the
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 505. THE VALLEY-ROAD OAK OF ORANGE, N. J. tively poor, were sadly valuable for ship-timber, and therefore sacrificed on the altars of profit and utility. Trees grown to great size in the forest cannot be preserved when their supporting trees are cut from around them, and we must therefore leave to future centuries to record to what size the trees now growing in open ground may eventually attain. The Wadsworth oak, near Gen- esee, N. Y., the valley-road oak of Orange, N. J., of which the above engraving is a portrait, and a few others scattered at rare intervals over the country, are trees of great size, large enough to show that age only is wanting to give them the colossal dimen- sions of trunk and branches that British oaks have attained, and, compared with which, our largest are mostly but moderate-sized trees. The Wadsworth oak probably comes nearer to the great English exemplars than any other, having a trunk thirty-six feet in circumference. The valley-road oak, just mentioned, has an unusually 20. 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 Jesup, 1828- [from old catalog]. New York, D. Appleton & company
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