. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. Fig. 83,. v ^S^^ ^^?i^^;- clearly-defined masses of liglil and shade, but the masses are small—too narrow and too nu- merous to produce the grand effects of the larger openings in the oak and chestnut, though our cut shows larger lights and shadows than are usual in
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. Fig. 83,. v ^S^^ ^^?i^^;- clearly-defined masses of liglil and shade, but the masses are small—too narrow and too nu- merous to produce the grand effects of the larger openings in the oak and chestnut, though our cut shows larger lights and shadows than are usual in the maple. The brighter green and more abundant foliage of the maple make amends for this inferiority, but it is none the less an inferiority. An examination of the structure of these trees in winter will show why the oak and the chestnut mass their foliage more nobly. It is because they have fewer and larger branches, not radiating like those of the maple with uniform divergence, but breaking out here and there at right angles with the part from which they issue. The consequence is, that Avhen they are in leaf, the projecting leaf surfaces and the shadow openings are larger and nobler in expression. The hick- ories are all observable for the massiveness of their lights and shadows, and, unlike the chestnut, they assume this character while yet young. By the shadows alone it would not be easy to distinguish a hickory from an oak or chestnut, though they are readily distinguishable at sight by difference of contour—the hickory being proportionally taller and squarer than the others. There is, however, a difference in the shadows that close observers will mark: the wood being more elastic, the branches of old trees bend to form curved lines, which give the shadows a similar general di- rection, as v>ill be seen on Fig. 86. This effect ? may be seen in many other trees, and is more noticeable in the lower than the upper part of the tree. There are many species which can be
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