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that are to you pleasing. Also name the kinds of trees 

 responsible for such effects. 



4. Comparison of well and ill-grown, unhealthy trees of 

 any species as to the decorative values of their leafage. 



The record of the work may consist of : 



1. Comparative diagrams showing framework and out- 

 line of: 



(a) A single specimen tree, growing alone, unpruned. 



(b) A clump of several close-growing trees of the same 



kind, also unpruned, forming a unit mass of leafage. 



2. Comparative diagrams of leaf arrangement on a small 

 undergrowth spray of such trees as elm, maple and larch. 



3. Indications (as footnotes to a photograph, or as 

 explanations to a map, or otherwise, as preferred) of the 

 character of foliage masses in the scenes studied, covering: 



(a) The kind of trees involved in each type. 



(b) Their height. 



(c) Relation of leafage to trunks, such, for example, as 



the contrast in the white birch. 



(d) Color of crowns (light or dark green, dull or shining, 



reactions to wind, etc.). 



(e) Texture (open or close, light or heavy and somber, 



etc.). 



(f) Form (mass outlines and spray relations, etc.), 



(g) Suited to a place in the foreground or in the back- 

 ground; in the exposed or in the sheltered places; with 

 reasons therefor. 



