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HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL 



In the planting of the grounds the numbers on the plan 

 correspond with the following schedule list. In this we have 

 not calculated for vegetable growing, believing fruit to be more 

 profitable and more difficult to purchase than vegetables. 



The drive or carriage way shows a landing at the porch, and 

 then again at the side hall door. 



In the planting of this design we have only given the front as 

 the decorative portion, giving all the balance to such fruits as it 

 is difficult to purchase in good order at reasonable rates. At the 

 same time we have tried to include some that we count as better 

 gathered from the vine or plant than those of the same in 

 market : 



1— Purple-leaved Maple. 



2 — Purple-leaved Elm. 



3— Indian Birch {Bhojputtra.) 



4 — Cut-leaved Weeping Birch. 



5— Oak-leaved Mountain Ash. 



6— Birch.— Variety, Elegans Pendula. 



7— Tom Thumb Arbor Vitae. 



8— Pinus Pumilo. 



9— Norway Spruce ( far Tortvosa Compacta.) 

 10— This bed, (the form of which is outlined,) 

 should be planted with Lilies, Tulips, Hya- 

 cinths and otlur bulbs for early spring bloom- 

 ing ; then afterwards fill in with Verbenas. 

 Geraniums, Sedums, Ivies, and various 

 annuals, sucti as Balsams, Sweet Peas, Mignion- 

 ette, Alyssurn, etc. At each post of the porch 

 there should be planted a climbing plant. The 

 following are four valuable hardy varieties, 

 viz. : American Ivy oi Virginia Creeper, 

 Clematis Virginiana, Periploca Graca or Vir- 

 ginia Silk, Wistaria. 



11— This bed should be planted with hardy, 

 low growing, flow, ring shrubs, such as the Ber- 

 berry, Calycanthus, Corchorus, Gordon's Flow- 

 ering Currants, Deutzias of varieties, Forsythla, 

 Hydrangea Paniculata, Persian or Chinese 

 Dwarf Lilacs, Purple Flowering Magnolia, 

 Spireas, and one or two of Weigelas'. The dis- 

 tance apart in planting should be two io two 

 and one-half feet, and each year the plants 

 should be pruned back from half to two-thirds 

 of the year's growth. 



12— This bed should have Crocus and Narcis- 

 sus bulbs for early spring blooms, then be filled 

 with Geraniums and Tuberoses intermixed. 



13— This bed should be filled with perpetual 

 blooming roses of varieties. It should be 

 dug very deep, at least two feet, and 

 • filled in, as a mixture with the earth, 

 with decomposed or old rotten manure. 

 The plants may be set eighteen inches to 

 two feet apart. 



14— Rockport Cherry. 



15— Black Tartarian Cherry. 



16 —Red Jacket Cherry. 



17— Elton Cherry. 



18— Early Richmond or Louis Phillip Cherry. 



19— Early York Peach. 



20— Old Mison Freestone Peach. 



21— Crawford's Early Peach. 



22— Ward's Late Freestone Peach. 



2i to 30— Dwarf Pears as follows, viz. : 

 Beurre Giffart. Bartlett. 



Duchesse d'Angouleme. Tyson. 

 Beurre d'Anjou. Beurre Diel. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey. 



31 to 34— Dwarf Apples as follows : 



Red Astrachan. Gravenstein. 



Large Sweet Bough. Fameuse. 



X, X— The rows with crosses drawn over the 

 lines are for grapes, the Concord, Hart- 

 ford Prolific, Telegraph and Martha, each 

 planted 8 feet apart in the row. Dela- 

 ware, Iona, Mottled, Croton, Lydia and 

 Rebecca may be planted 6 feet apart in 

 the rows. 



