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HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL 



Estimates of value of good trees for this planting at regular 

 retail rates of the best nurserymen : 



2 Apple or Orange Quince $ 1.00 



2 Dwarf Apples CO 



10 Grape Vines 5.00 



4 Cherries 2.00 



6Dwarf Pears 3.00 



12 Currants 2.00 



12 Gooseberries 2.00 



$15.60 



Doubtless from 10 to 20 per cent, less would fill 

 this order, if given to a responsible Nurseryman. 



Labor of planting 3.00 



Total....' $18.00 



Now we will take the arrangements of the foreground. 



No. 20 is designed for planting of hardy flowering shrubs, and 

 the numbers in this block have no reference to the rear of the 

 house, but each has the name of the plants to be there placed : 



1— Red-fruited Berberry. here and there a single one Arrange it 

 2— Euonymous or Strawberry Tree. so that they shall not be on a level, but a 

 3— Wcigela Rosea. broken line. Now fill in among the t- tones 

 4— Variegated Wiegela. along the line with creeping hardy vint s, 

 5-Wicgela Amabilis. both Evergreen and Summer Flowering. 

 6— Gordon's Syringa. being careful to have some of the. Ampi 1- 

 7— Spirea Lanceolata fl. plena. opsis or Virginia Creeper, the Wistaria and 

 8— Spirea Revesii Cobusta. Clematis Virginica. Use the beet of light 

 9— Deutzia Crenata, flora plena. rich loam for the planting tif the vines 

 10— Magnolia Rubra. along the line. It would also improve 

 11— Deutzia Gracilis. their growth were the ground along the 

 12— Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora. line deeply dug and richly manured be- 

 13 — Variegated-leaved Dogwood. fore plating the stones and plants. 

 14— Hedge of Norway Spruces. 16— Purple-leaved Maple. 

 15 — Along this front line have it raised a foot 17 — Bed for flowering plants, such as Roses, 

 or more higher than the sidewalk, and with a Geramums, Lantanas, Lilies, Heliotrope, 

 rolling bank. Then gather rough boulders, Caleus, Verbenas, Sweet Alysum, Tube- 

 broken stones of color, lay them along, two and roses, Salvias, etc. 

 three in one place and five in another, with 



Should this property change hands and the coming man wish 

 to have a barn and keep his own carriage and horses, the 

 entrance road now proposed to be kept in grass might be 

 graded, and position for the barn be made by simply removing 

 some dwarf pears, — a tree that can at any age be transplanted 

 successfully. 



