. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. 290 A C 031 PARIS ON OF THE Lights AND Shadows.—The quality of trees, which is least observed except by painters, and yet one which has much to do with their expression, and our preferences for one or another sort, is their manner of reflecting the light in masses,
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. 290 A C 031 PARIS ON OF THE Lights AND Shadows.—The quality of trees, which is least observed except by painters, and yet one which has much to do with their expression, and our preferences for one or another sort, is their manner of reflecting the light in masses, so that it is brought into high relief by the .dark shade of openings in the foliage, against which the lights are contrasted. If the reader will study trees, he will see that the lines of light and shade in the Lombardy poplar. Fig. 80, are nearly vertical, and in narrow strips. Fig. 80. in harmony with the outlines of the tree, while in the I balsam fir and the beech, Fig. 81, they are in nearly hori- zontal layers, and looking as though the tree had been built up in stratas. Most of the arbor-vitce family grow so compact that their shadows, seen at a little distance, are much like those of solid bodies, the openings in their spray being so small, that their surfaces are little broken by shadows. Young apple, maple, and chestnut trees, present, when young, such unbroken surfaces of leaves, that it is proper to say of them, then, that they have in- sipid or unformed characters. Compare the cut of the young apple, Fig. 82, with an old tree. Fig. 83, or the young maple. Fig. 84, with the mature one. Fig. 85, and it will be seen that -not merely their outlines have changed with age, but that there are bolder shadows, and consequently more striking lights in the masses of their foliage. The native chestnut {Castanca vcscd) ex- hibits a much more radical change from youth to age in its shadows. When young it resembles in form the young apple tree; but when middle-aged, it breaks
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