THE PIGTUHESQUE STYLE. 



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Wier's Cut Leaved maple, the leafless Kentucky coffee 

 tree, and many others. Xo general definition of pictur- 

 esqueness, as applied thus to plants, can well be given 

 so as to enable an inexperienced eye to select them from 

 the arboretum. But the landscape gardener, in whose 

 mind the ideal is clearly conceived, will have small dif- 

 ficulty in finding the j^lants suited to its expression. 



A broken and uneven surface is especially adapted to 

 the production of picturesque effects. Indeed, it is not 



FIG. 11. AVILLIAM GILPIX'S IDEA OF PICTURESQUENESS. 



From his "Forest Scenery." 



impro2)er, though not strictly correct for all cases, to 

 designate the peculiar beauties of mountain scenery as 

 picturesqueness. Mountain scenery is not commonly 

 architectural in style ; neither does it have the smooth 

 and flowing outlines of the English ideal garden. Should 

 a landscape gardener some time find himself with a 

 piece of mountain ground to work upon, he would hardly 



