186 DECIDUOUS TREES 



good-sized country places. These fortunate persons should buy 

 "Forbes's English Estate Forestry." 



Most of us can have only a few trees on the lawn or in the 

 garden. Therefore all the other effects described in this chapter 

 are viewed from this stand point. Conifers and street trees must 

 be omitted. Conifers, since they are described in Chapter XIV and 

 street trees because the point of view is generally public, not 

 private. For street trees let the student consult The Garden Mag- 

 azine, Vol. VI, page 128 and Vol. VIII, pages 1 18-121. 



THE FLOWERING EFFECT 



The grandest flowering tree I saw in England is the horse 

 chestnut. There is an avenue of horse chestnuts about a mile long 

 at Bushey Park, and I fancy the trees are eighty feet high. (See 

 plate 68.) When "Chestnut Sunday" approaches, the London 

 papers tell their readers, and great crowds flock to see the spectacle. 

 We can grow the horse chestnut quite as well as England, but we 

 commonly use it for shade or street planting, for both of which 

 purposes it is ill adapted. Street robberies are easily committed 

 under its too dense shade, and the ground beneath horse chestnuts 

 is often clammy. 



There are only a few flowering trees that grow to great size, 

 and since large trees are not wanted in a flower garden, these are 

 fittest for a large lawn. Next to the horse chestnut the best tall 

 flowering trees are tulip tree, false acacia, empress tree, and Jap- 

 anese varnish tree, all of which I believe, we ought to grow better 

 than the English can. 



The most -popular flowering trees are the small ones, since the 

 flowers can be seen and picked easily. Many people who have 

 not been to England suppose that the commonest flowering tree 

 there is the hawthorn with double red flowers, and consequently 



