. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. DECIDUOUS TREES. .315 dinary fact, considering that full grown trees of it seventy-five feet high exist in England, and that, according to Loudon, it generally comes true from seed. If grafts can be procured, they may be put into the tops of our common white oaks. The Upright Oak. Q. p. fastigiata.—A tree of extremely fastigiate habit, the most so of any of the oaks, but much less slender than the Lombardy poplar, with which it is sometimes com- pared. Though a nativ
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. DECIDUOUS TREES. .315 dinary fact, considering that full grown trees of it seventy-five feet high exist in England, and that, according to Loudon, it generally comes true from seed. If grafts can be procured, they may be put into the tops of our common white oaks. The Upright Oak. Q. p. fastigiata.—A tree of extremely fastigiate habit, the most so of any of the oaks, but much less slender than the Lombardy poplar, with which it is sometimes com- pared. Though a native of the Pyrenees, it is hardy at Rochester, N. Y., and makes about the same annual growth as our white oak. The leaves and branches are small and numerous. The Mossy-cupped Turkey Oaks. Q. cerris.—The variety of what are called Turkey oaks in England is large, and some of the most beautiful specimens of oaks grown during this century are of one or another variety of this species. Fig. loo illustrates the common form of the young tree, and the leaf. It is distinguished from the British oak (which it resembles more than any other) by longer, straighter, and more upright branches, and more rapid growth. Judging by the specimens to be seen in this country, we do not perceive any strik- ing peculiarity or beauty that should cause them to be preferred, in pleasure-grounds, to many of our native oaks. There is an English variety, the Q. c. pendula, the branches of which " not only droop to the ground, but, after touching it, creep along the surface to some distance like those of the sophora japonica pendula " (Loudon). It grows to thirty or forty feet in height. There are also variegated-leaved varieties, but of little value. The Japan Purple Oak. Q. alba atro-purpiirea japonica.—Our attention has recently been called to this new tree from Japan. It promises to be the most brilliant member of the oak family. In the nursery of Parsons & Co., at Flushing, L. I., the
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