. Art out-of-doors : hints on good taste in gardening. Gardening. XIII NOWLEDGE and good taste must help in the grouping of trees, whatever they are and wherever they stand, if the re- sult is to be artistically good. But, of course, the more peculiar a tree is in form or color, the more unlike the trees which chiefly compose the picture in which it is to stand, the more carefully should the laws of harmony, of simplicity, of proper emphasis and agreeable contrast be consulted on its behalf, or, rather, on behalf of the picture as a whole. Four trees with which we are very famil- iar are consp
. Art out-of-doors : hints on good taste in gardening. Gardening. XIII NOWLEDGE and good taste must help in the grouping of trees, whatever they are and wherever they stand, if the re- sult is to be artistically good. But, of course, the more peculiar a tree is in form or color, the more unlike the trees which chiefly compose the picture in which it is to stand, the more carefully should the laws of harmony, of simplicity, of proper emphasis and agreeable contrast be consulted on its behalf, or, rather, on behalf of the picture as a whole. Four trees with which we are very famil- iar are conspicuously peculiar : the Lom- bardy poplar, the weeping willow, the purple or copper beech, and the white birch. No tree is more useful in the right place or more ugly in the wrong place than the Lombardy poplar. One of Nature's 273. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs. , 1851-1934; Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer; Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) DLC. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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