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turesque schoo], p. 83. Illustrations in planting villa, ferme ornee, and 
cottage grounds, p. 93. General classification of trees as to forms, with 
leading characteristics of each class, p. 104. 
SECTION IV. 
DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The history and description of all the finest hardy deciduous trees. 
Remarks on their effects in Landscape Gardening, individually, and in 
composition : their cultivation, etc. The oak, p. 118. The elm, p. 131. 
The plane or buttonwood, p. 136. The ash, p. 140. The lime or linden, 
p. 144. The beech, p. 148. The poplar, p. 152. The horse chestnut, 
p. 158. The birch, p. 161. The alder, p. 166. The maple, p. 168. 
The locust, p. 173. The three-thorned acacia, p. 177. The Judas tree, 
p. 179. The chestnut, p. 180. The Osage orange, p. 185. The mul- 
berry, p. 188. The paper-mulberry, p. 190. The sweet gum, p. 192. 
The walnut, p. 194. The hickory, p. 198. The mountain ash, p. 202. 
The ailantus, p. 206. The Kentucky coffee, p. 208. The willow, p. 
211. The sassafras, p. 217. The catalpa, p. 218. The persimmon, p. 
220. The peperidge, p. 222. The thorn, p. 224. The magnolia, p. 226. 
The tulip-tree, p. 231. The dogwood, p. 234. The ginko, p. 237. The 
American cypress, p. 239. The larch, p. 244. The Virgilia, p. 251. 
The Paulownia, p. 253. 
SECTION V. 
EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The history and description of all the finest hardy evergreen trees. 
Remarks on their effects in Landscape Gardening, individually and in 
composition. Their cultivation, etc. The pines, p. 255. The firs, p. 
264. The cedar of Lebanon, and Deodar cedar, p. 270. The red 
cedar, p. 274. The arbor vitee, p. 276. The holly, p. 279. The yew, 
p. 281. 
SECTION VI. 
VINES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. 
Value of this kind of vegetation ; — fine natural effects, p. 286. The 
European ivy, p. 287. The Virginia creeper, p. 290. The wild grape- 
