Wood Notes 



yet graceful effect in larger foliage-mass the cut-leaved 

 beech is an excellent choice, and not disproportionate 

 to quite a small lawn. 



When young trees are planted thought should be 

 taken of their ultimate effect when fully grown ; this 

 forethought would often induce the selection of dwarf 

 species, such as Judas-tree, hop-tree, silver-bell-tree or 

 hornbeam, which will not in the end so crowd their sur- 

 roundings as rather to disfigure what they were intended 

 to adorn, and crown the catastrophe by being finally 

 cut down. 



The advantage of tree-study in such a place as Central 

 Park is not only that one acquires a discriminating eye 

 to enjoy such growth anywhere, but, in the event of 

 having his own grounds to decorate, be they large or 

 small, he is not left at the mercy of a florist. Fine 

 eflfects, and some that are inartistic, result from follow- 

 ing the advice of one who has plants to sell, when the 

 purchaser himself is helplessly ignorant. 



The ideal for every lawn should be, that it shall have 

 some distinctively attractive feature for every part of 

 the year, and that its beauty shall not all be concen- 

 trated into a few fleeting weeks. Flowering vines, 

 shrubs and trees should be selected with a view to their 

 successive flowering, from the yulan, dogwood, forsythia, 

 Japanese quince, shadbush and wistaria in early spring, 

 to the catalpa, clammy locust, Koelreuteria, sophora, 

 and rose of Sharon in July, August, and September. 

 Variety of foliage-effect in form and tint of leaf should 

 be studied, mingling evergreens with deciduous trees, 

 the dark holly and beech with the light-green cut-leaved 



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