. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. 58 DWELLINGS, OUTBUILDINGS,. Fig. 13. charming architectural combinations for gateways, but it will not
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent; the advantages of suburban homes over city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and treatment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . Landscape gardening; Suburban homes; Trees. 58 DWELLINGS, OUTBUILDINGS,. Fig. 13. charming architectural combinations for gateways, but it will not do on a place which has not otherwise a'highly architect- ural character, to "make it up " on the gate- way. On places where solid constructive dec- orations cannot be afforded, we advise the use of topiary work, by which is meant the fanciful forms sometimes given, by cutting and trimming, to verdant arbors, thickets, trees, and hedges. There are many species of evergreens which may be planted on each side of the gateways of ordinary foot-walks so as to be made into charming arches over the entrance. With patience and annual care, these can be per- fected within about ten years, but they will also afford most pleasing labor from the beginning; and the infantile graces of the trees, which are year by year to be devel- oped into verdant arches, will probably af- ford quite as much pleasure in their early growth as in their perfected forms. In the descriptions of the trees which are suitable for this kind of topiary work, the mode of managing them will be noted in detail. We here introduce the same cuts to give a hint of the effect in- tended, though, when well grown, such arches are far more beautiful than our engraving can even suggest. Fig. 13 shows a pair of hemlocks planted inside of a gateway, and grown to a height of 10 to 12 feet, and only trimmed on the inside. Fig. 14 shows the effect at the end of ten years—^the tops of the two trees having been twisted tog
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