Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
of the ‘‘ Ramble,’’ in a large open space, as must needs 
be if it is to have full development. Trees ought to be 
very grateful to mankind, and probably are, for taking 
them out of a state of nature, and putting them into a 
state of grace. What ambitious but often disappointed 
affairs dense forest-growths are; climbing over each other, 
as it were, to reach the top and sunlight, where alone 
they are verdant, and all below leafless and branchless, 
tall barren trunks, a wilderness of gaunt forms. Nature 
has the ability but not the room, the landscape-gardener 
has the room but not the ability; but let the two work 
in conjunction, and nature finds the chance to realize 
the ideals she has had from the foundation of the world. 
Its late vernation and unsightly appearance for half of 
the year prevents the coffee-tree’s wide cultivation. For 
six months it is uncouth, for the next six luxuriant and 
stately, and all the year a curiosity. Its June flowers 
are small and greenish-white, the staminate in very 
short racemes, the pistillate in clusters nearly a foot 
long, followed by pods somewhat like those of the 
honey-locust. 
SIBERIAN PEA-TREE.—A_ genuinely feminine type 
of sylvan growth is the Caragana or Siberian pea-tree, 
its light pinnate foliage in drooping sprays, enriched 
with abundant small clusters of yellow flowers of pea- 
shape, presenting a graceful but not assertive aspect, 
with the mellifluous mood of a Keats or a Shelley. 
There are all varieties of temperament in the trees of 
the ‘‘Ramble,’’ and an imaginative mind would find 
it a pleasant task to wander through these winding 
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