212 PLANTING THE ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS 



foliage beds, plants for adding color and emphasis 

 to the shrubbery masses, and plants desired to be 

 grown as isolated specimens or as curiosities. 



It is always legitimate, and, in fact, desirable, 

 to plant for immediate effect. One may plant 

 very thickly of rapid -growing trees and shrubs 

 for this purpose. It is a fact, however, that very 

 rapid -growing trees usually lack strong or artis- 

 tic character. Other and better trees should be 

 planted with them, and the insipid and rapid- 

 growing kinds be gradually removed. These re- 

 marks apply with particular force to summer re- 

 sorts and pleasure grounds, at which there is a 

 great tendency to secure quick effects by profuse 

 planting of willows and poplars. These trees al- 

 ways look cheap and characterless. Maples, elms, 

 oaks, catalpas, or other trees, should be planted 

 with the willows or poplars, and eventually only 

 an occasional specimen of the nurse -planted wil- 

 lows and poplars should remain. That is, in the 

 completed picture, willows, poplars and the like, 

 should be only incidents. (See, also, pages 152, 

 153.) 



Some of the silver or white -leaved poplars pro- 

 duce the most striking contrasts of foliage, espe- 

 cially if set near darker trees, and for this reason 

 they are much desired by many planters. Bolle's 

 poplar (Populus Bolleana of the nurseries) is one 

 of the best of these trees. Its habit is something 

 like that of the Lombardy. The upper surface of 



