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California by several other cognomens — to wit, 

 White, Bastard, and Post Cedar. I leave the subject 

 here for readers at their will to work out the con- 

 nection of name and non-connection of form. They 

 are not hard conundrums to cope with. 



The appearance of the trees from a scenic point of 

 view shall shortly be reviewed here. The Lombardy 

 Poplar may be cited as its analogue in form and 

 structure for those situations where you seek a 

 column or chimney, or may we add campanile, effect ; 

 and when we cite this comparison we must ask readers 

 to bear in mind that we are not disregarding the fact 

 that chimneys in the abstract do not produce one 

 and the same effect in all places from a landscape 

 point of view. 



There are the huge chimneys of the Midlands, used 

 in connection with commercial enterprises, and they, 

 all must concede, are a blot hideous enough, in all 

 conscience, to disfigure the charm of any landscape 

 that Nature has ever produced. Then, again, on 

 the other hand, we have the perfectly designed 

 chimneys evolved by the best of architects, in an 

 Augustan age of literature and art, in the times of 

 Queen Elizabeth, and later Stuart days when many 

 of the best so-called Elizabethan buildings were 

 designed and erected, and which are the glory of 

 their art and the pride of a nation. 



When a tall, tow^ering, columnar tree of almost 

 maypole slenderness of form comes to be planted, the 

 position has to be selected with a more than ordinary 

 care than that often bestowed upon many other 

 heroes of the forest and glories of the glade. It has 

 more than ever to be placed carefully and consider- 

 ately, according to the circumstances and agencies 

 of its surroundings. All this should go without 

 saying, yet we take the liberty of repeating it with a 

 view to emphasize the fact that we believe many 



