North Lawn (White House) requirement for public views of the White House. The Olmsted plan presented the landscape largely as seen today: retaining or planting large specimen trees and shrubs on the perimeter to create boundaries for visual privacy, but opened with generous sight lines of the house from north and south. The lawn is planted with a grass variety called tall fescue ("Festuca arundinacea)." Trees on the North lawn include fern-leaf beech ("Fagus sylvatica asplenifolia"), American elm ("Ulmus americana"), white oak ("Quercus alba"), white saucer magnolia ("Magnolia × soulangeana"), red maple ("Acer rubrum"), American Chestnut Tree ("Castanea dentata)" and American and English boxwood
The Old Tree in 1900 in the Pavilion de l'Alma and the "La Plume" salon - in "La Revue Blanche", Felicien Fagus wrote: The Old Tree The Old Tree is a plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as part of his "The Gates of Hell" project. He produced it in 1885, only a year after the formation of the Salon des Independents. It measures 39.3x38.4x27 cm and shows a nude young woman clinging to an old man holding his arms out like a tree, contrasting several opposites - male and female, youth and age, softness and roughness. The work