Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 140
four trees or shrubs, andthree species. The low one in front is theAndromeda floribunda, the next the goldenarbor-vitae, and the two behind it the Irishyew, Taxus baccata. An engraving can scarce-ly suggest the beautiful contrasts of colorsand surfaces that these present. On eitherside of the… … 142 PLANS OF RESIDENCES chestnuts, maples, and elms are usually the most beautiful rivalsfor such places. Of horse-chestnuts we would recommend thecommon white for one side, and for the other side the doublewhite flowering, which blooms several weeks later than thecommon sorts, and forms a taller…
