Landscape Architecture As Applied to the Wants of the West With An Essay On F
Landscape Architecture As Applied to the Wants of the West With An Essay On F
Cleveland, H. W. S. (Horace William Shaler), 1814-1900
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Let any one observe the character of individual trees such as are generally planted in our city streets, and mark also the general effect and try to contrast it in his mind with the possibility above suggested. He will very rarely find a tree possessing any real beauty of its own, and very many, and especially of those of large size which fiave been removed at great cost, are not only utterly deficient in grace and symmetry of form, but present such a meagre and sickly display of foliage as can... excite no feeling of pleasure in the mind. With such deficiency of attractive interest in the individual specimens, and with an utter lack of system in planting, it is by no means surprising that no effect is produced which is worthy of attention as confer- ring any distinct expression. The large sums which are annually expended in all our cities in tree-planting, are in fact wasted so far as the results attained will compare with what might be secured by a more judicious system, and it is one of the incon- sistencies resulting from general ignorance of the subject, that a matter of such vital importance to the beauty and LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.
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