The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent : the advantages of suburban homesover city or country homes; the comfort and economy of neighboring improvements; the choice and tre atment of building sites; and the best modes of laying out, planting, and keeping decorated grounds.Illustrated by upwards of two hundred plates and engravings ... With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · New York : D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 483
ers are in clusters a foot long. What has been said about protection for our native catalpa at the north, applies with still more force to these imported sorts. We believe that in a deep dry warm soil they will prove hardy in the northern States, if protected U7itil their roots have had time to… … THE SASSAFRAS. Laurus sassafras. This is the only quite hardy species of the beautiful laurel family, so highly prized for their abundant glossy foliage in the southern States, (there known as bay trees) ; and interesting as the only representative in the northern States of the noble laurel or bay,…
Landscape gardening · Trees · Suburban homes
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