CHAPTER X 



TKEE-PLANTING FOR PICTORIAL EFFECT 



" There is beauty produced by a number of differently formed 

 trees — each showing its separate mould and features." — M'Cosh. 



This is an important subject in all well-kept 

 gardens and plantations, and is well worthy the 

 attention of gardeners. 



Some fine efi"ects may be produced in the garden, 

 or the shrubbery border, by the careful and judicious 

 planting of ornamental trees and shrubs. Graceful 

 plants like the weeping willows and mop-headed 

 acacias (Rohinia inermis) are well suited for plant- 

 ing amongst dwarf-growing shrubs ; whUst a back- 

 ground of such trees as the double scarlet thorn, the 

 Japanese plum {Prunus Pissardii), with its crimson 

 purple foliage, Acer negundo variegata, with its 

 silver-edged leaves, the copper- coloured or purple 

 beech, and the laburnum ^ with its golden flowers 



1 "The great lilacs and laburnums . . . showed their golden 

 and purple wealth above the lichen-tinted walls." — George Eliot. 



