. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. our experience, it occurred to us thatthe upright, semi-artificial Arbor-Vitae was in ex-cellent keeping with the artificial monuments,making the graduation between the artificial andthe natural true art so often hungers for, and thatthe effect was better for the employment of thisone tree alone, than if an incongruous mixture togive variety had been used. In regard to archi-tecture generally, not only will the effect bemarred or aided by a consideration of the con-tour of the surface of the ground, as noted inour last, but by the character of the t
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. our experience, it occurred to us thatthe upright, semi-artificial Arbor-Vitae was in ex-cellent keeping with the artificial monuments,making the graduation between the artificial andthe natural true art so often hungers for, and thatthe effect was better for the employment of thisone tree alone, than if an incongruous mixture togive variety had been used. In regard to archi-tecture generally, not only will the effect bemarred or aided by a consideration of the con-tour of the surface of the ground, as noted inour last, but by the character of the trees give with this a view of the residence of Huntington, Esq., well known in railroad cir-cles, at Throggs Neck, which shows in a remark-able degree the good effect on the architecture ofa number of straight boled trees. The numerousstraight pillars of the porte cochere and of the ver-andahs, the square walls and square windows,are admirably supported by the upright trunks ofthese forest trees. THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [August,. 1887.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 227 COMMUNICATIONS. THE AMPELOPSIS. BY DENNIS KENNA. How beautifully the Ampelopsis Veitchii colorsunder the autumn frosts. Three vines, growingto a silver maple in front of our door, havenow (Nov. 2d, 1886,) leaves of dull crimson, rose,yellow, dark green with crimson edges, and manyof them have not changed yet—like the tinyleaflets at the growing points, which still retaintheir natural light-green, almost yellow, hue. The tree has a trunk of three and one-half feetin circumference, which is the uniform measure-ment, for twelve feet up to the head; the branchesof which, being cut in close annually, do notshade the plants in the adjacent beds ; but thosein the bed encircling the base of the tree have tobe watered regularly during the dry summerweather to keep them growing. The roughened bark of this tree trunk is suitedto the nature of the Ampelopsis, and the vinescreep along in the furrows and over the scalyridg
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