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Title: The American garden
Identifier: americangarden121891broo (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Horticulture; Gardening
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : (s. n. )
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J'/yES, HEMLOCKS AND SPRUCES. 647 The white pine, or Piniis Sirobiis^ is the commonest and best known of the pines. It grows in England, where it is commonly called the Weymouth pine. The solitary white pines remaining from the orig- inal forests are among the most conspicuous and striking objects in northern landscapes. They are always pictur- esque, torn and broken by storms and disfigured by age. They always inspire in us a feeling akin to reverence, and we lament whenever one of them succumbs to the elements or the axe. We should like to see in the country districts a feeling strong enough to preserve all of these scattered sen- tinels until storms and time destroy ^ them. To the horticulturist this iti^'" pine possesses much value. _^ ^ Aside from its use as a wind- ' break it is unexcelled for beauty when planted on the landscape. None the less pic- turesque are isolated old hemlocks, although they are very different in expression from the pines, and they are less c o m- mon. Hem- locks do not persist so long as the pines in de- serted clear- ings and on the windy hillsides. But they are now and then seen standing out boldly against the woods, or forming a rough and rugged clus- ter along some gorge or wild roadway. Yet the young hemlock is the most graceful and comely of all our ever- greens. It takes rather unkindly to cul- tivation, however, es- pecially when first transplanted. The hot suns are apt to burn it, and the high cold winds of winter disfigure it. But when once estab- lished in a partially
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Fig. 3. Hemlocks. — "A rough and rugged cluster.

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