The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . they have in-sipid or unformed characters. Compare the cut of theyoung apple, Fig. 82, with an old tree. Fig. 83, or theyoung maple, Fig. 84, with the mature one. Fig. 85, andit will be seen that not merely their outlines have changed withage, but that there are bolder shadows, and consequently morestriking lights in the masses of their native chestnut {Castanea vesca) ex-hibits a much more radical change fromyouth to age in its shad
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . they have in-sipid or unformed characters. Compare the cut of theyoung apple, Fig. 82, with an old tree. Fig. 83, or theyoung maple, Fig. 84, with the mature one. Fig. 85, andit will be seen that not merely their outlines have changed withage, but that there are bolder shadows, and consequently morestriking lights in the masses of their native chestnut {Castanea vesca) ex-hibits a much more radical change fromyouth to age in its shadows. When youngit resembles in form the young apple tree ;but when middle-aged, it breaks up intobroader masses than any other native tree,except the white oak, which in age it mostresembles. Fig. 105 shows its characteristicbreak of light and shadow. It will be seenthat it is neilher in vertical nor horizontal lines, but quite irregular,and in large, instead of small masses. Herein consists one of thecharacteristics that distinguish majestic, or grand, from simply beau-tiful trees. The sugar maple, as shown in Fig. 85, is broken into Fig. •^z X^i^inVSi^, ;ifii**- CHARACTERISTICS OF TREES. 291
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