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PLAN FOR GROUNDS OP EIGHT ACRES 



tions are urged against grass walks, but 

 in the gardens that I have made with 

 grass walks they did not materalize. The 

 principal objection urged against grass 

 walks is that the ladies cannot use them 

 when the dew is on the grass but this ob- 

 jection might be overcome by wearing 

 overshoes. 



An apple orchard in bloom is lovely be- 

 yond description, but after it is done 

 blooming hardly any one will claim that 

 an apple tree is a desirable one for the 

 lawn and in summer and autumn falling 

 fruit is a feature of untidiness. In the 

 present plan the apple orchard is really 

 a part of the garden and is screened from 

 the lawn by massed plantings of shrubs. 

 This orchard is so arranged as to provide 

 shade for a walk known as the "Orchard 

 Walk" leading in the direction of the 

 beach. It is not the intention to keep the 

 grass under the apple trees closely mown 

 as the lawn will be. It is to be mown but 

 once a season, about the first of July. By 

 pursuing this plan thousands of spring 

 flowering bulbs, such as daffodils, snow- 

 drops, crocuses, scillas, wild tulips and 

 alliums can be naturalized in the grass. 

 This, one of the most delightful phases of 

 gardening, is known as wild gardening, 

 which has been most exhaustively 

 treated and splendidly illustrated by that 

 master of horticultural writers William 



Robinson in his "Wild Gardening" a book 

 I commend to the attention of all readers 

 of Gardening. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN. 



1. 1. 1. 1. Massed planting of shrub- 

 bery with group of vigorous growing 

 perennials. 



2.2. Groups of deciduous trees. 



3. Groups of evergreens. 



4. Specimen shrubs. 



5. Group of deciduous trees with a 

 few evergreens. 



6. Group of large-growing ever- 

 greens. 



7. Stable and gardener's house. 



8. Oriental sycamore. 



9. American elm. 



10. English beech. 



11. Tulip tree. 



12. White birch. 



13. Magnolia macrophvlla. 

 11. Pin oak. 



15. Silver maple. 



16. Sugar maple. 



17. Scarlet oak. 



18. Tulip tree. 



19. Wier's maple. 



20. White dogwood and American 

 judas trees. 



21. White leaved linden. 



22. Liquidamber. 



23. Group of hemlock. 



24. Cut-leaved birch. 



25. Nordmann's fir. 



26. Douglas' spruce. 



27. Virgilia lutea. 



28. Magnolia conspicua. 



29. Magnolia hypoleuca. 



30. Magnolia soulangeana. 



31. Magnolia conspicua. 



32. Apple trees. 



33. Japanese crab apple. 



34. Pin oak. 



35. Scarlet maple. 



36. Scarlet oak. 



37. Fern-leaved beech. 



38. Magnolia stellata. 



39. Rose flowered weeping Japan 

 cherry. 



40. Abies concolor. 

 Grape-vines trained on trellises. 

 Dwarf pears. 

 Peaches. 

 Currants. 

 Dwarf pears. 

 Border for herbaceous plants, 



spring-flowering bulbs and annuals. 



47. Border for hybrid pepetual roses. 



48. 48. California privet hedge. 



49. Pavilion. 

 Group of Japanese maples. 

 Magnolia soulangeana. 

 Tulip tree. 



J. Wilkinson Elliott 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



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