The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . tree. Yet its head does not usuallybreak into such dense masses of verdure asthose of the maples, the horse-chestnuts,and the hickories. Fig. 113 shows a re-markably pretty specimen of a whitewood,about twenty years old, and gives the formsof the leaves, flowers, and seed-vessels. AsIt becomes an old tree, the branches bendin downward sweep, rising at their extrem-ities, and tending somewhat to unequallengths, form an outline at once irregu-lar
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . tree. Yet its head does not usuallybreak into such dense masses of verdure asthose of the maples, the horse-chestnuts,and the hickories. Fig. 113 shows a re-markably pretty specimen of a whitewood,about twenty years old, and gives the formsof the leaves, flowers, and seed-vessels. AsIt becomes an old tree, the branches bendin downward sweep, rising at their extrem-ities, and tending somewhat to unequallengths, form an outline at once irregu-lar and symmetrical, lofty and graceful. The play of light andshade among the openings of its boughs is similar in expres-sion to that which Loudon (as quoted on page 385) has char-acterized in describing the foliage of the European plane tree ;though that of the whitewood forms into somewhat more roundedmasses. The leaves burst their buds about a week later tlianthose of the sugar maple. They are from five to eight inchesin width, and of a peculiarly square form, as will be seen fromthe above cut. In texture and color they are of that perfect type. DECIDUOUS TREES. 365 that leaves nothing to be desired , and m autumn they turn to ayellow color almost as pure as their summer green, and then fallwith those of the maple, strewing the ground with beautiful flowers appear in June, of the size and form of tulips, agreenish-yellow color outside, and orange and yellow within. Asthe blossoms are upright, or nearly so, their brightest colors arenot seen from below, so that the flowers are less showy as usuallyseen on the tree, than their size and warmth of color when ex-amined separately would lead one to suppose. If one could lookdown upon the top of the tree, -when in full bloom, it would be asuperb sight. The seed-vessels which succeed the blossoms are inthe form of a cone about two inches in length. After the leavesfall the cones open and drop their seeds, but remain for manyw
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