150 LAWN-PLANTING FOR WINTER EFFECT. 



The Irish yew, in a sheltered place, is also invaluable 

 for winter effect. 



I have far from exhausted the list of evergreens suitable 

 for our picture, but have mentioned enough to give rich and 

 abundant color and form to a landscape otherwise dead and 

 lifeless. We must take care not to forget, in this analysis 

 of the constituents of charming winter effects on the lawn, 

 to consider the many beautiful forms and even colors of 

 naked stems and bare branches of deciduous trees. It has 

 been already noted how finely white-stemmed birches con- 

 trast with the background of evergreens, not only in color, 

 but in delicate variety of form. 



In like manner we have effects produced by other de- 

 ciduous plants standing singly or in groups by themselves, 

 or, under certain circumstances, in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood and outskirts of evergreens. What can be richer in 

 color, for instance, than the numerous crimson shoots of the 

 red-stemmed dogwood (Oornus sanguined) f Then we may 

 have intermixed with it, or at least planted in close neigh- 

 borhood, the golden willow, contrasting yellow stems with 

 crimson ones. The red-twigged linden has fine reddish 

 tints in winter on every portion of its current year's growth 

 of wood, and the golden-barked linden is useful in color as 

 contrast to the golden willow and red-stemmed dogwood. 



The trunk of the striped maple (Acer Pennsytvani- 

 cum) is also very beautiful in winter for its pink and 

 green. This is not hardy everywhere in the United States, 

 although attractive in all places where it will live. It is 

 unnecessary to press the point on observant lovers of trees 

 that the forms of deciduous plants are very attractive in 



