. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 460 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. Fig. THE LILAC. Syringa. The lilac among shrubs in this country is like the maple among trees, the most common and the most indispensable. Many home yards are made incongruous medleys of expensive novelties in flow- ers and shrubs which might have been more nobly adorned with masses of well-selected lilacs alone. The home of our poet Long- fellow, in Cambridge, Mass., is a fine example of the simple beauty of such groups; a few masses of l
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. 460 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. Fig. THE LILAC. Syringa. The lilac among shrubs in this country is like the maple among trees, the most common and the most indispensable. Many home yards are made incongruous medleys of expensive novelties in flow- ers and shrubs which might have been more nobly adorned with masses of well-selected lilacs alone. The home of our poet Long- fellow, in Cambridge, Mass., is a fine example of the simple beauty of such groups; a few masses of lilacs and some ancient elms being all its sylvan decoration. The lilac is indigenous in Persia and the valley of the Danube. Some of the species grow to the height of twenty feet. The com- mon white, S. alba, and purple, S. vulgaris, and their varieties, are stout upright growing shrubs, usually higher than their breadth. They may easily be trained into tree-form if care is taken to plant single stems with well-balanced roots, encouraging them to branch low, and pruning all suckers away as soon as they appear. All the lilacs tend to the bush form, and except where fine single speci- mens are desired for their novelty, it is not advisable to meddle with this tendency, but rather to encourage it by heading back at the top, so as to keep the bottom of the bush from growing scanty- foliaged and " ; The lilac may be grafted on the white ash. The Persian lilacs, S. per ska (called by some Siberian lilacs), have smaller leaves, darker colored blossoms, and slenderer branches than the common lilac. We have seen a specimen in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Scott, Frank Jesup, 1828- [from old catalog]. New York, D. Appleton & co.
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