The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . leaves of the sassafras. Itgrows in an exposed location on the brow of a hill in the NewYork Central Park, and is there ten feet high, with abundant glossyfoliage. It will become a tree from fifteen to twenty feet of the finest large shrubs in the Park. Loudon says of it: In British gardens it forms rather atender peat-earth shrub, handsome from its large leaves, but seldomthriving, except where the soil is kept moist, and the situation
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . leaves of the sassafras. Itgrows in an exposed location on the brow of a hill in the NewYork Central Park, and is there ten feet high, with abundant glossyfoliage. It will become a tree from fifteen to twenty feet of the finest large shrubs in the Park. Loudon says of it: In British gardens it forms rather atender peat-earth shrub, handsome from its large leaves, but seldomthriving, except where the soil is kept moist, and the situationsheltered. It may not be safe to recommend it for trial in thenorthern States to any but very careful cultivators, notwithstandingits success in the Central Park, THE PAULOWNIA. Faulowma hnperialis. A Japanese tree introduced into France in 1837, and into thiscountry about ten years later. The enormous size of its leaves,which sometimes measure nearly two feet in length and eighteeninches in diameter, and its rank growth, occasionally making canesfrom eight to twelve feet long in a single season, were qualities sa 414 DECIDUOUS TREES. Fig. striking that the tree became famous and in great demanci imme-diately after its introduction. A large proportion, however, of thosewhich have been planted north of New York during the last twentyyears are either dead, or annually shortened back by our severewinters, presenting the appearance of decrepit or damaged trees. Afew good sj^ecimens have survived, proving the possibility of accli-mating the tree in the northern States. Fine specimens may be seenin the New York Central Park, where, with the excellent judgmentcharacteristic of the management of that ground, these trees seemto have had no check in their healthy growth, and they stand in themost open and exposed localities. The early growth of the tree isvery much like that of the catalpa and ailantus, and if planted inrich soils the leaves and canes are immense. All such growthsh
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