W ood Notes 
yet graceful effect in larger foliage-mass the cut-leaved 
beech is an excellent choice, and not disproportionate 
to quite a small lawn. 
When young trees are planted thought should be 
taken of their ultimate effect when fully grown; this 
forethought would often induce the selection of dwarf 
species, such as Judas-tree, hop-tree, silver-bell-tree or 
hornbeam, which will not in the end so crowd their sur- 
roundings as rather to disfigure what they were intended 
to adorn, and crown the catastrophe by being finally 
cut down. 
The advantage of tree-study in such a place as Central 
Park is not only that one acquires a discriminating eye 
to enjoy such growth anywhere, but, in the event of 
having his own grounds to decorate, be they large or 
small, he is not left at the mercy of a florist. Fine 
effects, and some that are inartistic, result from follow- 
ing the advice of one who has plants to sell, when the 
purchaser himself is helplessly ignorant. 
The ideal for every lawn should be, that it shall have 
some distinctively attractive feature for every part of 
the year, and that its beauty shall not all be concen- 
trated into a few fleeting weeks. Flowering vines, 
shrubs and trees should be selected with a view to their 
successive flowering, from the yulan, dogwood, forsythia, 
Japanese quince, shadbush and wistaria in early spring, 
to the catalpa, clammy locust, Kcelreuteria, sophora, 
and rose of Sharon in July, August, and September. 
Variety of foliage-effect in form and tint of leaf should 
be studied, mingling evergreens with deciduous trees, 
the dark holly and beech with the light-green cut-leaved 
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