54 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL 



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In this we only show the arrangement of the foregrounds to 

 the rear of the house. "We have made no plan for the building, 

 but have left 40 by 80 feet for its base, and have so planned the 

 drive ways that it can be entered from any side. 



The plan may be used for level ground, but often there is a 

 rise of ground between the front and rear of the lot, and often 

 this rise obstructs a line rear view from the front lawn, unless it 

 is graded to meet the level of the lawn upon the side where there 

 is the most space. Should any one adopt this plan, having 

 rising grounds on the position of the house, then we should 

 advise him to grade only so as to make his drive ways level and 

 easy of travel. 



We have designed this for any place varying from 5 to 500 

 acres, giving the width of front 200 feet and the position of the 

 house back from the main road 165 feet 



We have made no note of fruit treesun the planting, for few, 

 if any, can be judiciously and tastefully mingled with the 

 strictly ornamental. 



The numbers on the plan correspond with the numbers given 

 in the following schedule, and to each number we designate the 

 name of the plant or tree, or give the class as a group. 



We commence with the immediate front. All the space 

 between the house and roads should be kept in clean turf. A 

 hedge of Norway Spruce or Arbor Vitse may be planted on each 

 of the side borders of the lot here designed : 



1— Hedge of Hemlock. 16— Cornus or Dogwood (Var Mascula.) 



2— Pavia Carnca Superba. 17— Purple-leaved Maple. 



3— Pavia Carnea Pubesceus. 18— Purple-leaved Maple. 



4— Pavia Purpurea. 19— Mountain Ash. 



5— Pavia Rubra. 20— Weeping Linden. 



C— Pavia Rubra Atrosanguinea. 21— Weeping Beech. 



7-Pavia Flava. 22— Cut-leaved Weeping Birch. 



8— Trefoil Tree. 23-Wceping Poplar. 



9— Sumach ( Var Glabra Lacinlata.) 24— Weeping Mountain Ash. 



10— Sumach ( Var Osbeckii.) 25— Camperdown Weeping Elm. 



1 1-Prunus Triloba. 26— Cork-barked Weeping Elm. 



12— Double Flowering Sloe Plum. 27— Dwarf Weeping Cherry (PumUa.) 



13— Halesia Tetraptera. 28— Ever-flowering Weeping Cherry (Far 

 14— Euonymus or Strawberry Tree. Semperilorens.) 



15— Five varieties of Amorpha or Bastard 29— European Weeping Ash. 



Indigo. 30— Gold-barked Weeping Ash. 



