STYLE AND EXPRESSION IN CERTAIN TREES AND SIIEUBS. 



woodlands, the grove. It need scarcely be urged that each of these requires pecu- 

 liarity of style in the trees and shrubs which are used as accompaniments. There 

 exists, moreover, in addition, a demand for trees and shrubs adapted to the various 

 styles of architecture ; and to the vestibule, the corridor, balustrades, arcades, the con- 

 servatory, <fec. 



Thus far I have pointed to a few of the chief objects, in order to show the demand 

 for a variety and choice of materials, and to mark the existence of such, and to claim 

 in some degree for the landscape gardener an iniinunity from the ordinary bondage 

 imposed by the great goddess Fashion ; the genuine landscape gardener caring more 

 for lines and forms than gaudy colors. 



Mere novelty and color, then, being set aside for a moment, I would beg to advert 

 to what we may term style and expression in trees and shrubs, and with much defer- 

 ence submit the following, which is capable of amplification : 



Forms — Round or Flat-headed, generally massive ; Pointed or Spiry ; Colum- 

 nar; Fastigiate; Horizontal; Weeping. 



To these common terms, as descriptive of general forms, may be added certain other 

 characters or habits ; such as the tinted, or those which impart a solemn grandeur or 

 richness, at the season of fading, in our early autumn or winter months ; feathery 

 and light branched trees or shrubs, adapted in a special way to the vista or glade ; 

 rock-shrubs and trees, those adapted to the banks of water ; climbers, creepers, twiners, 

 berry bearers, and variegations ; with the coarser and more rustic-looking things, as 

 leading to or connected with the woodlands, the fields, or the moor. 



I will now point to a few trees and shrubs in each of the classes, begging it to be 

 understood that they may be either old or new, their suitability alone being the assumed 

 ground of merit. 



Round or Flat-headed Section. — Foremost, " the gnarled and unwedgable Oak" — 

 everybody's favorite. Ilere we have one of the finest con tributaries to a bold sky out- 

 line — in age exhibiting broad and heavy masses of foliage, disposed in well-defined, 

 abrupt, and even angular breaks; added to which a tortuous and rugged bark — a 

 bold relief among trees and shrubs of tamer character. The Beech, too, a tree for the 

 park, the grove, the glade, or the vista. The Sycamore, which, although when young 

 is of no significance, attains a character in age frequently of much consequence to the 

 scenery where it is situate ; the foliage in this case running into heavy masses, with 

 deeply indented breaks in the outline. The Scotch Fir in age frequently attains a 

 most picturesque appearance. In this section we have such trees as the Elm, the Lime, 

 and various others. 



Pointed or Spiry. — Such as the Lombardy Poplar, the Taxodium sempervirens, 

 Douglas Pine, Larch, Silver Fir, and several other conifers, with the beautiful Crypto- 

 meria, and many ornamental shrubs. Trees and shrubs of this habit are finely adapted 

 for relieving the monotony of a heavy sky outline. What a charming efiect is pro- 

 duced by even a group or two of the IloUyhock, peeping forth from among a heavy || 

 mass of flat-headed shrubs ! The Lombardy Poplar, too : who has not seen and 

 admired this tree, rising in the distance in conjunction with the steeple of some time- 



