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Title: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919
Subjects: Landscape gardening Suburban homes Trees -- United States
Publisher: New York American Book Exchange
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nd training vinesover them. The pipe-vine or birthwort (Ansfoloc/iia siJ>/io), withits luxuriant mass of large heart-shape leaves, makes a superb showon supports of this kind. Almost any of our twining or creepingvines are beautiful enough in such places, and few more so thanthe common hop; but running roses, though often used in this way,are the least suitable. Trees whose tops are not sound enough tobe thus used, may often be sawed off from one to three feetabove the ground, and used for bases of rustic flower-vases or * We protest against doing violence to old apple-trees by cutting them to pieces to grafttliem with better ones. Tlie beauty of a broad old tree is worth more than the additional valueof grafted fruit will ever be. One cannot see an old apple-tree near a house thus marred, with-out thinking that the owner is either beauty-blind, or so penurious that he grudges the old treeits room upon the lawn unless he can make it pay ground-rent. Plate 3SX1 Forms for Pvosc TJeds
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Fig 5 figS Fit) II ■ ■ I ■ THE RENOVATION OF OLD PLACES. 243 baskets ; provided they stand in places where it is appropriate tohave flower-vases. Old shrubs of any of the standard species, if of large size, eventhough unshapely, may often be turned to good account in theplaces where they stand, by using them as centres for groups ofsmaller shrubs. Sometimes their very irregularity of outline willmake them picturesque objects to stand conspicuously alone on thelawn. Often a shrub of noble size has been hid by inferior shrubsand trees crowding it, which may all be removed to bring it intofull relief The beauty of full and well grown single specimens ofour most common shrubs is as little known as though they werethe most recent introductions from Japan. Not one American ina thousand, even among those most observant of sylvan forms, hasever seen a perfectly grown bush-honeysuckle, lilac, snow-ball, orsyringa, though every suburban home in the land is filled withthem. Growing either

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