The Beauty of Trees 
of an artist’s palette, the more numerous will 
be the kinds of beauty which he may produce. 
But color is the most difficult of qualities to 
manage, the most revengeful when managed 
wrongly ; and under the hand of ordinary 
planters the varied material of to-day means 
merely a greater confusion of tints, a more 
painful degree of unrest, spottiness, and ugli- 
ness, than would have been achieved had 
materials from the neighboring woods been 
alone attainable. 
Too often, especially in small grounds, 
it seems as though the aim had been to 
do away as far as possible with medium 
green tones, and to set upon a carpet of 
vivid emerald turf as many trees of strong 
eccentric hue as could be collected. Even 
when the general tone of the landscape is 
pretty well preserved, and bright or varie- 
gated trees and shrubs are used simply as 
accents here and there, too little thought is 
given to placing them where they will be 
emphatic yet not disturbing, and too little 
to the question of their beauty as distinct 
from their mere novelty or eccentricity. 
As a rule, it is better to avoid striking col- 
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