The Beauty of Trees 
Lebanon, or sharply ascend as in the Lom- 
bardy poplar; 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 outline 
is beautiful in a way wholly unlike that of a 
tree with an irregular, broken outline; and 
the same 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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