Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



maple and white birch, the honey-locust with the white 

 oak, with a sprinkling of tamarisk, weeping mulberry, 

 and Lombardy poplar. Another consideration is early 

 and late foliage. Norway and sycamore maples and 

 the European beech are about two weeks in advance of 

 most of the trees in vernation, and in fall the foreign 

 maples, weeping willow, California privet, and fre- 

 quently the forsythia, are fresh in foliage long after the 

 others are sere and bare. To bring autumn's coloring 

 to the lawn, plant the red maple, sweet gum, sour gum, 

 dogwood and tulip-tree ; and brighten winter's bleak- 

 ness with the showy fruit of thorn-trees, mountain-ash, 

 Japanese barberry, coralberry, and snowberry ; while 

 nothing is more conspicuous and beautiful amid the 

 snow than the blood-red branches of the leafless red- 

 osier dogwood. 



These are the foremost points to be considered, in 

 securing variety, harmony, richness, and continuous sat- 

 isfaction in that bit of nature's garden that surrounds 

 every country gentleman's castle. Too many treat 

 their landscape-growth as they do the pictures on their 

 walls, giving them little thought after they are pur- 

 chased. Both of these adornments, indoors and out-of- 

 doors, are dear at any price, if they are to be thus 

 ignored; and it might almost be said that they are 

 cheap at any price, if they become a part of our own 

 life, as permanent objects of interest and affection. 



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