Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
maple and white birch, the honey-locust with the white 
oak, with a sprinkling of tamarisk, weeping mulberry, 
and Lombardy poplar. Another consideration is early 
and late foliage. Norway and sycamore maples and 
the European beech are about two weeks in advance of 
most of the trees in vernation, and in fall the foreign 
maples, weeping willow, California privet, and fre- 
quently the forsythia, are fresh in foliage long after the 
others are sere and bare. To bring autumn’s coloring 
to the lawn, plant the red maple, sweet gum, sour gum, 
dogwood and tulip-tree ; and brighten winter’s bleak- 
ness with the showy fruit of thorn-trees, mountain-ash, 
Japanese barberry, coralberry, and snowberry ; while 
nothing is more conspicuous and beautiful amid the 
snow than the blood-red branches of the leafless red- 
osier dogwood. 
These are the foremost points to be considered, in 
securing variety, harmony, richness, and continuous sat- 
isfaction in that bit of nature’s garden that surrounds 
every country gentleman’s castle. Too many treat 
their landscape-growth as they do the pictures on their 
walls, giving them little thought after they are pur- 
chased. Both of these adornments, indoors and out-of- 
doors, are dear at any price, if they are to be thus 
ignored; and it might almost be said that they are 
cheap at any price, if they become a part of our own 
life, as permanent objects of interest and affection. 
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