. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 116 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Fig, 27,. Fig. 28. shaded by trees, it may be well to vary the form so that that side shall present a broader surface to the vertical light to compen- sate for the lesser sunlight, as shown by Figs, 29 and 30. The two sides of a hedge are rarely seen at one view, so that its apparent symmetry will not be marred ; and this difference of form may be re- commended as a pleasing variety—giving the beauty of two forms of hedge in one—as well
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 116 ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS OF Fig, 27,. Fig. 28. shaded by trees, it may be well to vary the form so that that side shall present a broader surface to the vertical light to compen- sate for the lesser sunlight, as shown by Figs, 29 and 30. The two sides of a hedge are rarely seen at one view, so that its apparent symmetry will not be marred ; and this difference of form may be re- commended as a pleasing variety—giving the beauty of two forms of hedge in one—as well as for the purpose of equalizing the vigor of the two sides. Arbor-vitae and hemlock hedges may be made of any height, from three to fifteen feet. Those which are to be kept of the minimum size will re- quire almost as much time to perfect them as the taller ones, as they must be cut back frequently from the start, to force the plants into a dwarf habit, and ought to be grown to the required breadth at the bottom before they are of full height. For a height of three feet, let the hedge be two feet wide at the bottom. As the height is increased the base need not increase proportionally. A hedge six feet high may have a base of three and a half feet, one ten feet high five feet, and so on; remembering to give the side which is to have the least light the greatest expansion at the bottom. We consider the tree box, where hardy, the best of all ever- green trees for low hedges, and though its growth is slow com- pared with that of the trees already named, we would use it in preference to anything else for hedges not designed to be more than three feet high. But it may not be hardy enough to be reliable in a climate more severe than that of the city of New York ; and as it does best in partially shaded places, it is less beautiful in open, dry, and sunny exposures. For such places the arbor-vitae is better. For topiary screens of great height the hemlock and Norway spruce, both o
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