Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
seen in Mrs Robert Pitcairn's grounds last
Pittsburg's Most Beautiful Tree.

seen in Mrs Robert Pitcairn's grounds last
year"
Pittsburgss Most Beautiful Tree.
| As we passed along Negley avenue the
| purple beech tree in Mr. Thomas MELONS
grounds suggested another topic. SIN that
| tree you see an important rule in arboricul.
| ture emphasized" said he. "It is better to
have one perfect tree than forest of i'm
| perfect growth. think that beech is one
of the most beautiful things to be seen for
| miles around; no wonder Chief Bigelow
offered Mr.. Mellon . fabulous sum to let
him take it to Schenley Park. A tree like
that ennobles a garden. As to the use of
trees generally in gardens, it is becoming
recognized gradually that they are most
effective when massed with shrubbery upon
the boundaries generally.
"You can compare two ways of using
trees in those adjoining gardens" and he
indicated the grounds in which two of the
handsomest houses in the East End are set.
In the one trees struggled all over the lawn;
none of them fine specimens, though had
they been gathered into body they might
have passed muster. In the other a broad
stretch of velvety lawn, undulating slightly,
lay like an emerald mirror before the house:
a graceful avenue Of trees shaded the drive
way, in the gentle curves of which were
more trees and shrubbery, chiefly rhodo-
dendrons. One had no need to be told that
the latter was the correct arrangement of
trees
Popularity OF the zaiia.
1T is easy to make mistake in massing
plant too many of them, and too thickly.
The result is thicket instead of a grove,
and in many of the older gardens about
Pittsburg this is bIemish that
time perhaps as much as any
design of the original gardener
has brought about As an auxiliary to the
heavier foliage and for the sake of their
brilliant blossoms the azalea, the rhododen-
dron and the hydrangea are deservedly at
tracing attention here, and in spite Of old
fogies' sneers and stupid gardeners mis-
takes in planting them many Pittsburg
gardens have been beautifed by their ad-
dition."
How gorgeous the azalea's coloring is
visitors TO Highland Park about q month
ago had a good chance of seeing. At the
head of Highland avenue, near the park en-
trance, in the heart of grassy bank blazed
an orange azalea like bush of FURNISHED
brass. 1t was a superb specimen.
An Alien to Be Welcomed.
The best exhibit of azaleas in a private
gaEucu vas lOuuu buOTt ulBtduCc from
Fifth avenue, in a most picturesque little
glen, that is within sound of the clattering
cable cars almost, and yet as sylvan and as
still itself as if the creek that winds be-
tween wooded walls were the Sinnamahon-
ing, stream beloved of bears aud speckled
trout The azaleas here were planted with
upon steep bank, and their
blossoms lent warmth to the woodland be-
hind them. In color they ranged from
crimson to clsret mostly, but there were
orange flowers and others striped in two
tints of rose, or purple and white. The
thing about them was that three |
months before they had been growing upon
the surry downs in England. They showed |
no ill effects from the transplanting, and in |
fact seemed more attached to American soil |
than most of their human compatriots do |
after decades stay here.
HEPBURN JoHNA