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Title: Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Jönsson-Rose, Nils
Subjects: Gardening Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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metimesamong rocks and stones; when cultivated, a sandy loamwith well-drained subsoil suits them best. The innumerablewhite flowers, produced in long catkins, make the treesbeautiful in summer. Beech, Fagus.—The beech is the most beautiful of allforest-trees ; it forms large woods in middle and northernEurope, chiefly on high and rocky ground and hillsides.The stem is smooth and grayish. The spray light, hori-zontal, and the crowns almost globular. In spring, whenthe silky leaves unfold, the beech woods are in their mostattractive condition. Unlike the oak, the l>eech casts avery heavy shade, and the abundance of flowering plants of Deciouous trees. 179 tbe oak-wood is not seen among the beeches. A few orchids,chiefly Habenaria chlorcmta, and the star anemone (TrientalisBwopw), are the most common plants. Mountain ash andhasrberrv grow here and there on the outskirts. The Euro-pean beech (Fagus syhatica) differs chiefly from theAmerican beech (F. ferrnffined) in having larger and
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FIQ. 91.—CUT-HEAVED BEECH (rAQUS SVLVATICA LACINIATA1. brighter leaves and a more horizontal spray. The copperbeech is a well-known form of the European species, as arealso the cnt-leaved variety often seen as a lawn tree,and the weeping beech. These varieties form beautifulspecimens on a lawn. All assume splendid autumn tints.The beech grows best in a sandy loam with an open orstony subsoil. In a voting state it is exceptionally beautifulfor woods and coppices, and when too large for this purpose 180 2>ectt>uous ZErces. it may be cut down, and a new growth will follow quickly.Many of the larger forest-trees may be treated in the samemanner in parks and gardens. When they have becometoo large they should be cut down and utilized, and a secondand more rapid growth is sure to follow. Hop-Hornbeam, Ostrya Virgin tea.—This is a fine andslender tree, with brownish bark and birch-like foliage,growing in rich woods, frequently among beech and birch. Hornbeam, Carpinvs betulus.—A

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