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others with sylvan scenery. It is also usually laid down as a rule that 

 pyramidal forms harmonize best with Grecian and round-headed forms best 

 with Gothic styles of architecture. This rule, however, must be understood 

 as of general rather than minute application, or a most unnatural and mon- 

 otonous effect will be the result. Groups may be composed of one or more 

 species or varieties, and, if carefully executed, with equally good results. 

 As a rule, the plants should differ in size, in order that the outline may be 

 more varied ; if the group be of irregular form, the largest plants should be 

 placed in its centre and salient curves ; it will thus gain in dignity, and be 

 far more natural and pleasing than if faced by a stiff gradation. Mixed 

 groups should be composed of such trees as harmonize or contrast well with 

 each other. — The Garden. 



THE SCARLET OAK. 



11 yi OST planters who grow this fine American Oak are thoroughly aware 

 ^ Yl of the beauty of its large leaves during the summer, and the brilliant 

 autumnal color they assume before being shed. It grows, too, in 

 almost any soil, and soon forms a distinct and handsome tree. The 

 beautifiul tints of the second growth are also a recommendation ; in the 

 arboretum at Kew and in other places trees of this species are now very 

 conspicuous, the bronzy red of the young shoots and leaves forming a 

 striking contrast to the older foliage. — iV., The Garden. 



A PROFITABLE TIMBER TREE. 



THE wild Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) grows rapidly, and its timber 

 realises as high a price in many markets as Black Walnut. It is 

 much more profitable than the Black Walnut, as many more trees 

 can be grown to the acre. It is not so detrimental to other vegetation as 

 the Black Walnut. Another great advantage the Cherry has over the Black 

 Walnut is that it is ready for the cabinet-maker in less than half the time 

 required for the Walnut, and to this may be added the advantage that it is 

 more cheaply grown. One bushel of Cherry seeds will produce as many 

 seedlings as twenty-five bushels of Walnuts, and the Cherry is more easily 

 dug up and transplanted. In all this I would not be understood as saying 

 one word against the Black Walnut as a timber tree. It is a very valuable- 

 tree, as is well known to everybody, but Black Walnut trees will not al 

 make saw logs when planted two feet or three feet apart. The common- 

 sense way would be to plant them at least twenty feet apart, and fill in with 

 cheap, rapid-growing trees that could be cut in time, leaving the whole space 



