The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . for the massiveness of their lights andshadows, and, unlike the chestnut, they assumethis character while yet young. By the shadowsalone it. would not be easy to distinguish ahickory from an oak or chestnut, though theyare readily distinguishable at sight by difference :.^ of contour—the hickory being proportionally _~l taller and squarer than the others. There is,however, a difference in the shadows that close observers will mark:the wood being
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . for the massiveness of their lights andshadows, and, unlike the chestnut, they assumethis character while yet young. By the shadowsalone it. would not be easy to distinguish ahickory from an oak or chestnut, though theyare readily distinguishable at sight by difference :.^ of contour—the hickory being proportionally _~l 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 toform curved lines, which give the shadows a similar general di-rection, as Vvill be seen on Fig. 86. This effectmay be seen in many other trees, and is morenoticeable in the lower than the upper part ofthe tree. There are many species which can bedistinguished readily by this peculiarity in theirshadows in connection with their contours. Thesassafras. Fig. 87, naturally takes an umbrellaform of head, and its foliage divides into cur-vilinear strata, or rather appears so as seen Fig. 84. Fig. 85,. 292 A COMPARISON OF THE Fig. 86. ^^^>^-V
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