Art Out-of-Doors 
tree-forms. This is so obvious a charac- 
teristic that even the least artistic eye will 
note it, the most thoughtless planter will 
take it somewhat into account. But if we 
may judge by the results we find all around 
us in places where an intelligent landscape- 
gardener has not been employed, few persons 
pay any attention to other characteristics of 
form. Mere chance or, at most, a thought- 
less, abstract preference for some kind of 
tree, seems much more often to have regu- 
lated our planting than a clear realization of 
intrinsic characters, accompanied by reflec- 
tion with regard to the appropriateness of 
one character or another to a special spot. 
I have known an intending planter to ask 
for elms, and yet not know whether he want- 
ed American white elms which would grow 
up into vase-like, drooping forms, or English 
elms which would assume shapes almost 
identical with the shapes of oaks. If a sin- 
gle tree is wanted in a conspicuous position 
a sugar-maple is chosen, perhaps, because 
sugar-maples are known to be “ good trees,” 
although it would be less well in place with 
its roundish head than a hickory with its 
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