TREES 
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It is with the adornment of outdoors precisely 
the same as with the adornment of indoors; 
deep, quiet tones extend lines and distances 
apparently, as well as produce an effect that 
is full of repose, permanent and restful. 
Masses do the same, as opposed to the 
nervousness of scattered treatment and its con- 
sequent clutter. 
Just as a room with plenty of simple, broad, 
unornamented spaces is refreshing and like a 
tonic after an interval spent in the curio-col- 
lection type of apartment, so is a garden free 
from all bizarre effects when contrasted with 
the nurseries of vegetable color marvels which 
some are deluded into planting. Purple forms 
of beech tree and barberry bush are practically 
the only variations from typical foliage color 
which are tolerable; these two are indeed very 
beautiful in the right place, as a matter of 
fact. But remember that restraint is always 
safer than extravagance, and that the subur- 
ban garden is denied many things which a 
larger place may indulge. 
I have left the detailed discussion of fruit 
trees to the last because I wish to sum up, as 
it were, in their favor. Perhaps it will seem 
that I am giving undue emphasis to the 
economic side of the garden question, but I 
