. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. ?82 A C0 3IPARIS0N OF THE. To what extent a tendency to pictur- esqueness may go, without loss of symmetry, it is not easy to say. Fig. 62 is a well-pro- portioned tree of picturesque outline, and symmetrical as to the balance of its parts, but not in the similitude of its opposite halves. It is a form often seen in our native locusts and the Scotch elm. Figs. 63 and 64 are both symmetrical, strikingly pictur- esque in outline, and yet totally unlike each other. The first is a form quite common to young
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. ?82 A C0 3IPARIS0N OF THE. To what extent a tendency to pictur- esqueness may go, without loss of symmetry, it is not easy to say. Fig. 62 is a well-pro- portioned tree of picturesque outline, and symmetrical as to the balance of its parts, but not in the similitude of its opposite halves. It is a form often seen in our native locusts and the Scotch elm. Figs. 63 and 64 are both symmetrical, strikingly pictur- esque in outline, and yet totally unlike each other. The first is a form quite common to young weeping elms ; but with age, unlike most trees, they become more symmetrical and smoothly rounded. A full-grown weep- ing elm is the most perfect example of the union of symmetry, grace, and picturesque- ness, among all the trees of the temperate zone. Tree outlines may be divided into two great classes of forms, which merge mto each other in every variety of combination. These are round-headed trees, and conical, or pyra- midal trees. Fig. 64 is a form characteristic of rapidly grown scarlet oaks or ginkgo trees. The contrast between this form and that of the young elm above, is very marked; yet in outline they are almost equally spirited, and in the balance of their oppo- site parts are alike perfect. The elm, how- ever, has the higher type of beauty, by reason of the less mechanical distribution of its weight, and the bolder projection of its "';, : .i^ branches. All such spirited forms suggest an inherent life and will in the tree, a kind '^ oi playful disregard of set forms, a youthful daring and defiance of the laws of gravita- tion that is apt to please persons of imag- inative minds. They are always favorites with artists ; while trees of more compact and methodical arrangement are preferred by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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