CHICAGO, NOVEMBER is. 1894. 



No. 53. 



A GLIMPSE OF THE OCEAN. 



fl GLIMPSE OP TflE OCEAN. 



Dosoris is an island close by the north 

 shore of Long Island and abont thirty 

 miles east of the city of New York. There 

 is no open sheet of fresh water on the 

 estate, but there are a good many charm- 

 ing views along and across Long Island 

 Sound. On a clear dav the mainland 

 shore— Westchester county, N. V., and to 

 Greenwich, Conn.,— can be seen very 

 plainly from Dosoris, and all the shipping 

 through the Sound must necessarily pass 

 by in front of this little i.sland. 



Our illustration is engraved from a pho- 

 tograph taken here some weeks ago, and 

 shows a piece of tree planting above a 

 bluff. Through the notch in the middle 

 appears a fine broad stretch of water 

 about 8 or 9 miles wide. We are now 



looking diagonally across the Sound 

 towards Greenwich. When this photo- 

 graph was taken the camera was 100 

 yards back from the nearest trees shown. 

 The rib across the lawn marks the last 

 swath of the mowing machine. 



The large spreading tree to the right is 

 a honey locust. It thrives admirably 

 here and makes a beautiful and pleasing 

 tree, airy and graceful, but on account of 

 its terrible spines we can not recommend 

 it for planting close b3' our dwellings. 

 The thick tree to the right of it is a young 

 European beech, the tall dense growth 

 under its left branches is a triplet group 

 of fastigiate oaks. 



The thick dense evergreen bushes at the 

 notch consist of Mugho or Alpine dw.nrf 

 pines, dense, pigmy forms of firs and 



spruces, and junipers. Their form is natu- 

 ral, the3' are not clipped into shape, and 

 they vary from 12 to 20 years old. Those 

 on the brow of the bank only are seen in 

 the picture. 



The two tall deciduous trees to the left 

 of the notch are common hickories. They 

 stand in an exceedingly exposed position, 

 and in the teeth of the fierce northwest 

 winds which are our prevailing ones in 

 winter. In front and to the left of them 

 is a group of goodly sized white spruce 

 with a few large white pines. This spruce 

 stands the winds better than the pine, 

 butwhere fullvexposed tothe fierce winds 

 of winter even the spruce gets bare on the 

 northwest side. Athick growth of yellow 

 locust on the face of the bluff (not seen in 

 the picture) breaks the winds from the 



