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The trees and shrubs in the following list are those whose twigs arecoloured sufficiently to make them of value from a landscape stand-point. The colour effect of twigs may be interesting from two pointsof view: either because of the vivid colouring, such as is seen in thered-twigged dogwood, and in the glossy rose, or of the general tone ofcolour such as seen in the American olive and the golden-barkedwillow, in which the colour as a mass is much more effective at a dis-tance than upon close examination. Many of the interesting shrubs included in this group are often-times selected because of the sharp contrast between the colour of theirtwigs and the white background of snow or the green background ofevergreens during the winter months. This is especially true of thebirches and the dogwoods. In fact, there is equally as much interestduring the winter months in a planting of this kind, properly de-veloped, as in the difference of foliage effects during the summermonths. It is a feature of landscape plantings to which very littleattention has been given and one which demands careful study in orderto be successfully worked out. |
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