CHAPTER V. 



ORNAMENTAL CHAEACTEES OF TEEES, DETACHED 

 AND IN COMBINATION. 



Introductory Eemarks. 



Sect. I. Tlie forms of Single Trees. — Broad Eound-headed 

 Trees. — The Spiry, Conical, or Pyramidal Configuration. — The 

 Upright or Oblongated. — The Weeping or Pendulous. 



Sect. II. The Colours of Trees. — Table of the Colours of 

 Eoliage of Trees. — General Eemarks. 



Sect. III. The Ornamental Character of Trees in Combination. 

 — Conical or Pyramidal Trees. — Eound-headed Trees. — Inter- 

 mingling of the difierent Forms and Colours. — Concluding 

 Eemarks. 



If we may assimilate landscape gardening to landscape 

 paintings we would say that trees are the principal 

 means of ornament available to the garden artist. They 

 are^ as it were^ the colours with which he paints, and with 

 which lie fiUs up the outlines presented by nature or 

 selected by his own taste. We have already touched 

 generally on the massing and grouping of trees — that 

 is, so far as regards the forms and positions of these 

 groups and masses and their relative combinations. 

 Something remains to be said respecting the ornamental 

 character or expression, if we may so caU it, of trees, 

 and of the facilities which they consequently afford in 



