. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GARDEX WALKS AND RCADS. 261 Fashion in trees has so greatly changed within the last few years, that deciduous avenues have been greatly threatened by evergreen ones. The rage for coniferous plants has been so great that it has found an outlet in avenues, and hence one often meets with lines of Wellingtonias, Araucarias, and the finer Silver and other Firs, the majority of which impart but slight shade or beauty to the roadway, and do less in their serried lines of unequal stature to recommend themselves as avenue trees. Where an evergreen avenue is wan
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GARDEX WALKS AND RCADS. 261 Fashion in trees has so greatly changed within the last few years, that deciduous avenues have been greatly threatened by evergreen ones. The rage for coniferous plants has been so great that it has found an outlet in avenues, and hence one often meets with lines of Wellingtonias, Araucarias, and the finer Silver and other Firs, the majority of which impart but slight shade or beauty to the roadway, and do less in their serried lines of unequal stature to recommend themselves as avenue trees. Where an evergreen avenue is wanted, there are few trees to equal the Douglas and common Spruce, the common Scotch and Silver Firs, and the Cedar of Lebanon and Atlantic varieties of the same, for form- ., -^^ ing it. Marshalled " - â lines of Scotch Firs, ^ , with their ruddy stems and dark, almost black, massive tops, are sim- ply magnificent; and the Silver Fir, from its free growth, its semi- glaucous hue, and its clear fine boles, is even more effective. Width, of Ave- nues.âThis will, of course, vary consider- ably, according to the character of tree em- ployed and the vital difference between mere lines of trees on either side of the road, and avenues over which, the trees are to form an arch. Hence, the distance may vary from thirty or forty feet in the case of Limes, to a hundred or a hundred and forty feet in the case of Cedars of Lebanon. Then again, there are Poplars and Poplars, Elms and Elms, and so of other species in general. The upright pillar or pyramidal Lombardy Poplar might be planted much more closely than the Populus alba, P. monilifera, or P. Canadensis nova. The former shoots up like a spire or the pji-amidal Cypress; the others spread out broad and wide, as an umbrageous Oak, Elm, or Horse-chestnut. The distance must vary with the trees employed; the distance from tree to tree in the row is a matter of far less moment, as in aA'enue-planting* the effect in line or mass, and no
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