The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . sh. It is in full leaf as early 433 DECIDUOUS TREES. as the horse-chestnut, and holds its leaves and color late. Inbloom and fruit it closely resembles the preceding varieties of themountain ash, but in the color of its foliage, and the breaks oflight and shadow on its surface, it is a much finer tree. Heightand breadth from twenty to thirty feet. There is a weeping varietyof this species, which we have not seen, but which is reputed to beintere
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . sh. It is in full leaf as early 433 DECIDUOUS TREES. as the horse-chestnut, and holds its leaves and color late. Inbloom and fruit it closely resembles the preceding varieties of themountain ash, but in the color of its foliage, and the breaks oflight and shadow on its surface, it is a much finer tree. Heightand breadth from twenty to thirty feet. There is a weeping varietyof this species, which we have not seen, but which is reputed to beinteresting ; also a large-leaved variety. The Dwarf-profuse-flowering Mountain Ash, F. nanafloribunda, is a variety of the oak-leaved mountain ash, but theleaves have returned to the primal form of the species, being com-pound, quite delicate, and acacia-like. It is grafted on otherstocks from four to six feet high. The blossoms, in small andabundant white clusters, appear in May. In blossom, foliage, andbright-red fruit, it is equally pretty. There are many other varieties named in nursery catalogues,but the above are the most noteworthy. Fig. .^m THE DOGWOOD. Conuis. The dogwood family are numerous, and vary widely from eachother in their characteristics. They form low suckering shrubs andwhip-plants on the borders of streams and in wet ground, and inother places low trees, most of which are indigenous from Canadato the Gulf of Mexico. The most common, and the most showyin blossom, if not in leaf, is the following: DECIDUOUS TREES. 433 The White-flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida. Fig. 141is a portrait of a remarkably fine specimen, on the grounds ofE. B. Gardett, Esq., of Germantown, Pa. It is about sixteen feetin height, thirty feet across the longest spread of its branches, andten inches in diameter of trunk. In the woods it often reaches theheight of twenty to thirty feet, and is generally found wild on ornear the banks of streams. It is remarkable for the size andshowine
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