. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. "^A*^.. CHAPTER VIM. MATEEIALS USED IN DECOEATIYE PLANTING. THERE are no vegetable productions in Nature which, when thoroughly observed and understood, are not beau- tiful. Few plants are more beautiful than the thistle. Most weeds will elicit our admiration if their forms, growth, and structure are carefully noticed. Even bare rocks give pleasure to the eye, and their vastness and ruggedness awaken emo- tions of sublimity, as sun, moon, or darkness light and s
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. "^A*^.. CHAPTER VIM. MATEEIALS USED IN DECOEATIYE PLANTING. THERE are no vegetable productions in Nature which, when thoroughly observed and understood, are not beau- tiful. Few plants are more beautiful than the thistle. Most weeds will elicit our admiration if their forms, growth, and structure are carefully noticed. Even bare rocks give pleasure to the eye, and their vastness and ruggedness awaken emo- tions of sublimity, as sun, moon, or darkness light and shadow them. A lightning-shivered pine, projecting from a mountain side, makes a striking point in a painter's landscape, and serves to heighten, by contrast, the smooth-featured loveliness of a valley below it. Yet the thistle would give more pain than pleasure as a pot or border plant. What we call weeds are only so because some other plants unite more beauties, or give more pleasurable returns for cul- tivation. We reject the former, because we cannot have all, and therefore choose their betters. The shivered pine, though pleas- ingly picturesque up among the rocks, would give more pleasure added to the wood-pile than to the front yard of the citizen; and. 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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