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HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL 



The following schedule of trees against the figures in numbers 

 indicates the place for each, designated by corresponding 

 numbers on the plan : 



1, 1— Cat-leaved Birch. 



2— Furple-leaved Beech. 



8— Indian Birch {Betula Bhojpattra.) 



4-Purple-leaved Elm (Stricta Purpurea.) 



5— Young's Weeping Birch. 



6— Cnt-leaved Weeping Birch. 



7— American White Spruce. 



8- Cembrian Pine. 



9— American Red Spruce. 

 10— Corsican, or Red, or Norway Pine. 

 11— Norway Spruce. 

 12— Pinus Pumilio. 



15— Along this line a border from the houee 

 range of one foot, with a elope or grade 

 of two inches from the houee ; the oppo- 

 site side should have a grade to meet it, 

 making a rolling water carrier inter- 

 mediate, and be of turf. The bank next 

 the house should be planted with Gera- 

 niums, Petumias, Callas, Heliotropes, 

 Verbenas, etc., for summer blooms, then 

 if the proprietor is able, let the bank next 

 the house be yearly replanted with Hya- 

 cinths, Tulips, Crocus, etc. 



Roses, Geraniums, Verbenas, Heliotropes 

 and annual bulbs, such as Japan Lilies, 

 Tulips. Hyacinths, Gladiolus, etc., may 

 be planted in it. 



17— Black Tartarian Cherry. 



18-Red Jacket Cherry. 



10— Rockport Cherry. 



13— Designed as a form ontlinc to enclose the 16-Is a bed to be planted with Perpetual 

 planting of Spinas, Deutzias, Chinese and 

 Persian Lilacs, Hydrangea Paniculata, and the 

 dwarf varieties of Tree Honeysuckles, with 

 scarlet flowering Quince and Fcreythia. 



14— Is a bed designed for the planting of 

 what we term half trees, or first-class shrubs, 

 viz. : The Weigelas, Halesia, Euonymns, Dog- 

 wood, Purp'e Fringe, White Fringe, Gordon's 20— Six Dwarf Pears, one each as follows : 

 Currant, Althea, Berberry, etc. Each plant Duchesse d'Angouleme. Beurre Giffart. 

 should stand three feet from the other, and one Louise Bonne de Jersey. Bartlett. 

 foot from the edge of tbe bed. The smallest Vicar of Winkfield. Beurre d'Anjou. 



growing plants should be next the house and 21— Three Grapes, varieties as follows : 

 the largest at the back- Telegraph. Concord. 



Hartford Proline 

 All the rear of this may be used for whatever 

 suits best the proprietor. 



