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Landscape Gardening 



one with a very regular and compact surface and outline, as 

 the horse-chestnut. In planting large masses of wood, 

 therefore, or even in forming large groups in park scenery, 

 round-headed trees of the ordinary loose and varied man- 

 ner of growth common in the majority of forest trees, are 

 greatly to be preferred to all others. When they cover 

 large tracts, as several acres, they convey an emotion of 

 grandeur to the mind; when they form vast forests of 

 thousands of acres, they produce a feeling of sublimity; 

 in the landscape garden when they stand alone, or in fine 

 groups, they are graceful or beautiful. While young they 

 have an elegant appearance; when old they generally be- 

 come majestic or picturesque. Other trees may suit scenery 

 or scenes of particular and decided characters, but round- 

 headed trees are decidedly the chief adornment of general 

 landscape. 



FIG. 17. SPIRY-TOPPED TREE 



Spiry-topped trees (Fig. 17) are distinguished by straight 

 leading stems and horizontal branches, which are compara- 

 tively small, and taper gradually to a point. The foliage 

 is generally evergreen, and in most trees of this class hangs 



