64 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



TREES FOR SCREENS. 



The useful and ornamental may be combined with good 

 effect in grouping trees for screens, i.e., to cut off objec- 

 tionable views or to enhance the beauty of desirable ones. 

 The same rules should be observed in their arrangement as 

 in planting for shelter. The effects to be obtained in this 

 kind of grouping are many. Unsightly objects viewed 

 from the house may be covered or hidden from view, as well 

 as objects on the grounds that it is desired to screen from 

 the house or from public view, as the clothes-yard, stable 

 and other outbuildings, etc. The quiet retreat where one 

 may be away from the public gaze is a feature to be desired 

 in every more or less thickly settled community, but the 

 great mistake often made of planting a close hedge or screen 

 around the entire grounds, shutting off all view from both 

 inside and outside, should be avoided. 



The ornamental features of our grounds should be made 

 with the view of adding as much of beauty and comfort to 

 them as possible, and if we succeed in creating anything of 

 beauty or comfort others are entitled to share it with us to 

 the extent at least of looking upon its beauty. 



Grouping for Ornamentation. 



When neither shelter nor screens are needed, ornamen- 

 tal trees are planted as a setting to the buildings or for 

 the decoration of the grounds, and in this work much 

 knowledge of the various forms, colorings, and distinctively 

 characteristic features of trees is needed. The more one 

 studies trees and shrubs and their artistic grouping the 

 greater will be his success. 



