Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
scheme of ideal precision, and eventuate in simply a 
miscellaneous output of small leaves, neither so profuse 
nor so beautifully symmetrical as is invariably attained 
from year to year by the scheme of compound leaves, 
which can never degenerate into a medley of growth. 
Let anyone study the doubly compound leaf of the 
honey-locust and Kentucky coffee-tree, or the com- 
pound leaf of the ailanthus and walnut, as compared 
with the leaf-system in the elm and white birch, and 
it will convince him that under present conditions of 
growth, and with constant liability of derangement, 
that singularly beautiful leaf-pattern and the profusion 
and symmetrical effect of the foliage-mass could never 
have been secured, without resorting to the compound- 
leaf system. Horse-chestnut, hickory, sumach, butter- 
nut, ash, locust, and many others, are thus widely dif- 
ferentiated from oak, maple, hornbeam, beech, etc., 
producing a most-pleasing variety. 
Large, roundish leaves are comparatively ungraceful, 
and such trees as the catalpa, basswood, and button- 
wood must have corresponding perspective, or be 
planted where the surroundings will properly offset the 
heavy, clumsy effect of such foliage. This is still more 
true of such magnolias as the cucumber-tree, umbrella- 
tree, and especially the large-leaved magnolia (macro- 
philla), whose heavy tropical appearance, strongly 
punctuating a broad vista, is a monstrosity in a small 
grass-plot, where only the graceful figure and delicate 
leaf-tracery of such trees as the cut-leaved or Japanese 
maple, the white birch, the Kcelreuteria, the mountain- 
ash or cut-leaved alder, are appropriate. For a dense 
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