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coloring; the cut-leaved weeping birch and Japanese weep- 

 ing cherry the beauty of graceful, flowing outline; and each 

 and all of the more common ornamental trees have some 

 characteristic beauty which it should be the study of the 

 landscape artist to bring out in grouping them together. 



5. Groups should not be planted so as to present a too 

 solid appearance, and if arranged so as to give each speci- 

 men its proper distance and setting there will be little 

 danger of this result. To still further lighten up a group 



Fig. 36. Fig. 37. 



Fig. 36-37. — Trees and Shrubs Grouped at End or Turn of Walk. 



that has a tendency to too much compactness, small isolated 

 specimens in the lawn at a little distance from the outside 

 tree may be planted, as shown in Figs. 29 and 32. 



6. Where the surface of the lawn is rolling, instead of 

 arranging the trees, as in Fig. 29, much better effect will be 

 produced by dividing the group, as shown in Fig. 30. In 

 this way a much smaller number of trees will give more real 

 beauty to the grounds than if all were planted in a line or 

 a close group. 



7. When planting along walks or drives, an effort should 



