COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 



effective than the irregular beds; partly because a three feet circle is large enough for a 

 mass of a single color, in a small garden, and partly because a circular bed, like a tree, 

 always looks well, either alone, or grouped with other circles. It is also adapted to any 

 position, which an irregular bed is not. 



Fig. 102. 



" In order to give the lawn C, a more picturesque character, we have introduced a few 

 single specimens of trees, such as grow with beautiful forms when standing alone. "We 

 may mention, as peculiarly adapted to such sites, the Chinese Magnolia, (3/. conspicua, 

 and 31. soulunguma,) very hardy and beautiful; the Weeping Ash, AVeeping Beech, Pur 

 pie Beech, and Weeping Silver Lime, all striking in habit and foliage; the Ash Leaved 

 Maple, or Negundo, for its lively green foliage; the Virgilia of Kentucky, with snowy 

 white blossoms; the Virginia Fringe Tree, ect. As evergreens, to plant them singly we 

 may enumerate the Deodar Cedar, the Norway Spruce, the Ilimmalayan Spruce, the Irish 

 Yew, and the Silver Fir. A lawn and flower garden combined, and planted in this way, 

 would have a tasteful and beautiful effect in any situation, or in connection with a resi- 

 dence in any style." p. 204. 



