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their more sharply cut shapes and the more 

 stragghng form of the tree itself The silver- 

 maple is the better tree to supply a lively 

 accent vrhere this is wanted : but the other 

 is preferable for use in large masses, or as a 

 single specimen where a strong yet quiet 

 note will be the right one. 



The most effective combinations of color, 

 when they are rightly made, are those which 

 mean contrast rather than simple concord. 

 But it is usually better, and it is ahvays 

 safer, to place two tones of the same tint to- 

 gether — as a dark and a hghter bluish green 

 — rather than to associate two alien tints — 

 as a bluish with a yellowish green. Grayish 

 greens are the best when something is needed 

 to harmonize other strongly contrasting 

 tints. Everyone knows this who has studied 

 the v^'ork of landscape-i:ainters : and we may 

 sometimes see the fact illustrated toward 

 evening, when a plantation which has been 

 inharmonious in color under a bright light 

 becomes harmonious simply by the fading of 

 one or two of its tints into grayish twilight 

 hues. 



Of course, when a tree is not green at all — 



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