. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. 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. DECIDUOUS TREES. 451 the road-side at Mount Desert Island, Maine, would suppose it to be a peculiarly umbrageous and elegant small tree. Height twenty to thirty feet. THE ANDROMEDA OR SORREL TREE. Andromeda arborea {Lyonia arborea of Loudon), This is one of the pretti
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. 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. DECIDUOUS TREES. 451 the road-side at Mount Desert Island, Maine, would suppose it to be a peculiarly umbrageous and elegant small tree. Height twenty to thirty feet. THE ANDROMEDA OR SORREL TREE. Andromeda arborea {Lyonia arborea of Loudon), This is one of the prettiest additions to our stock of small ornamental trees. Although a native of the States from Pennsylvania to Florida, it is scarcely yet known in most home- grounds. In the southern States it be- comes from forty to sixty feet high; in England ten to twenty feet; probably twenty to forty feet in the latitude of New York. It forms an umbrella-shaped top with tapering branches. Fig. 152 repre- sents its common form from six to eight years after planting. The leaves resemble those of the common elder in form, color, and abundance. The flowers are in large terminal panicles of many racemes, white, in June and July, and cover the head of the tree in plumy profusion. The panicles of seeds that succeed them also attract attention by the novelty of their appearance, and their great abundance. The foliage turns to a fine crimson in October. The name " sorrel tree " is given to it in consequence of the pleasant acidity of its leaves. Away from the mild climate of the seaboard, in the northern States, it should be treated as a half-hardy tree. THE SUMACH. Rhus. The species of this family vary so widely that some of them would not be supposed to have any relationship to the others if judged by their general appearance. The purple fringe tree, for instance, with its single clean-cut leaves, and rounded head, is the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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