The Beauty of Trees 



Lebanon, or sharply ascend as in the Lom- 

 bardy poplar j and between these extremes 

 there are almost as many variations in 

 branch-development as there are kinds of 

 trees. Each variation gives a tree a dis- 

 tinctive form, the peculiarities of which are 

 increased by other facts of structure, such 

 as the greater or smaller number of the 

 branches, giving more or less density and 

 uniformity of surface to the head. And 

 each of these differences in form means a 

 difference in the expression of a tree, de- 

 termining the character of its beauty and 

 therefore its appropriateness to a given situ- 

 ation. A tree with a regular, formal outhne 

 is beautiful in a way wholly unlike that of a 

 tree with an irregular, broken outline ; and 

 the sam.e is true when we contrast one that 

 has many main branches dividing again into 

 many minor ones, and therefore a dense, 

 compact head, with one that has fewer 

 branches and a more open and broken sur- 

 face. 



The average size to which the trees of a 

 given species are apt to grow is. of course, 

 another element to be considered in studying 



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