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TUBES BUrrED TO SMALL GROUNDS. 



TREES SUITED TO GROUNDS OF ONE TO THREE ACRES. 



BY 13., LONGMEADOAV, MASS. 



In tlie February nuiiibor of the Jlordculturist, page G2, I read witli pleasure your 

 remarks on the fitness and variety of trees, — that their size should be so proportioned 

 to the size of the hiwn as to admit of a variety of trees of different foliage, shape, and 

 flowers. But you go on to remark tliat tliere sliould be a contrast between tlio 

 style of the house and the trees surrounding it : i. c, an Italian house, with its 

 graceful lines, should be surrounded with picturesque spiry-topped trees ; and the 

 gothic house, with its picturesque gables, contrasted with round-headed, gi-aceful trees. 

 In this you take issue with Downing, who writes very eloquently, and, I think, satis- 

 factorily, on the subject, and gives two illustrations on page 55 of his Laiidscape 

 Garden'ingJ^' 



A Vlrgilia lutea which five years ago I turned out of a flower-pot into my lawn, 

 and which was then less than a foot high, has now become a fine, flourishing tree of 

 from nine to ten feet high, and I am expecting soon to see it blossom. A Ginko tree 

 near it, though much larger when transplanted, has grown with much less rapidity 

 and inclines decidedly to the picturesque. A Kentucky Coffee tree, ten feet high, 

 transplanted at the same time, has grown but little, owing to the soil, I presume, (a 

 sandy loam,) it requiring a deep, heavy soil. 



The following trees are well suited to small grounds of from one to three acres. 

 Many of them admit of being very closely grouped, for the picturesque school, and 

 most of them form graceful trees when allowed to grow singly. All are easily pro- 

 cured of good size, either from the nursery or woods, and that they are all hardy in 

 Massachusetts, at least in the southern part and away from the sea shore, I know from 

 experience : 



Medium sized trees. — European Mountain Ash, Catalpa, Umbrella ^lagTiolia, Judas 

 Tree, Scotch Laburnum, Purple-leaved Beech, Japan Ginko, Double- Flowering Cherry, 

 (two varieties,) Osage Orange, Box "Wood, and Sour Gum or Peperidge. The two last 

 are natives of our woods. 



Pruned and trained as small trees. — The Hawthorne, (three varieties,) Buckthorn, 

 Privet, White Lilac, Purple Fringe, Sassafras, and Mooso Wood or Striped-bark 

 Maple, are very ornamental. The two last are natives ; the Privet is also occasionally 

 found growing in the woods. 



These, with a few shrubs, — the Carolina Large -Flowering Syringa, Common Fra- 

 grant Syringa, Persian Lilacs, (purple, white, and cut-leaved,) Tartarian Tree Honey- 

 suckle, Wliite- Flowering Honeysuckle, Purple Fringe Tree, Privet, Dwarf White 

 Horse Chestnut, Indian Currant, (red fruit,) Snow ]3erry, (white fruited,) Bloody- 

 twigged Dogwood, Japan Quince, (scarlet and white,) Spirsea (half dozen varieties). 



*Oiir suggestion corresponds with the teachings of Mr. Bowntn-o, see pages 109 and 110 of the work you refer to. 

 The same principle is taught by every good landscape gardener and every landscape painter. Ilorizontal lines and 

 flat r(X)fs make a better picture when relieved by erect, conical or oblong-headed trees. We shall soon offer some 

 Dlastrations on this head. — Ed. 



