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 512
BECIDrOUS TREES. 440 thorn, C. c. prunifolia^ for short broad leaves, Fig. 146. fastigiate habit and showy red autumn foliage ; the C. c. py^-acanthafolia and the C. c. salicifloia., or willow-leaved, are curiously low and broad little trees; and the C. c. nana is the smallest dwarf of all. Fig.… … THE TVV1> H ASV'iHOK-NS. The Hawthorns. Crafcegus oxycantha. — We quote the fol- lowing from Loudon’s Arbo7'etum Britannicum : “ The common hawthorn, in its wild state, is a shrub or small tree with a smooth bark, and very hard wood. The rate of growth when the plant is young, and in a good soil…
Landscape gardening · Trees · Suburban homes
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