2i8 Landscape Hrcbitecture 



Evergreens form all the year round a very positive 

 feature in the landscape, and require the nicest disposi- 

 tion of colour and form to establish pleasant and harmo- 

 nious relations between different members of the lawn 

 vegetation. There are colours of trees and shrubs that 

 are offensive, why it is rather difficult to say. For one 

 thing they are striped yellow or white and come at a 

 time of the year which makes them look unnatural. 

 It is not the maples and dogwoods to which we refer. 

 Their clothing in June and October or November is 

 always charming, and so are the silver firs and the 

 larches in early summer: but what is meant, for in- 

 stance, is not the densiflora pine of Japan, grand in its 

 panoply of green, but a sickly looking and slightly 

 repulsive form of the same species which when striped 

 and variegated with gold is called the sun ray pine. 

 White may be of the highest value in the vegetation 

 of a landscape, as witness the white birches finding a 

 home in small numbers disposed against a background 

 of dark evergreens, and yet the variegated ash-leaved 

 maple (Negundo acerifolium variegatum) is of a sickly 

 white hue. A single deciduous tree of light foliage 

 standing out in front of a mass of evergreens will often 

 look well, and so will a small grove of them. It is the 

 evergreen type and the deciduous, properly related, 

 and used over and over again, that pleases conflicting, 

 triumphing, and then trailing off or losing each other, 

 in the midst of the blending always distinct and in 

 some way each asserting its own individuality, but 

 never carelessly mingling or failing to persist in an evi- 





