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house will be dampened, or have the sunlight excluded from its 

 windows, by such shrubs as we would recommend for planting in 

 the groups indicated against the houses in Plates V and VI. Small 

 as they are, each one of these little places for shrubs are studies. 

 Whether to plant a single robust shrub in each place, which will 

 spread to fill it, or to form a collection of lilliputian shrubs around 

 some taller one, is for the planter to decide. We cannot here in- 

 dicate, in detail, the plantings for all these places. It will be ob- 

 served that the right-hand front corner of the lot is filled with 

 shrubs, supposed to be but a part of a group, the other part of 

 which is on the lot of the adjoining neighbor. This may be com- 

 posed of large shrubs, such as altheas, deutzias, lilacs, etc., for 

 the interior, and weigelas, bush honeysuckles, Gordon's currants, 

 berberries, and low spireas of graceful growth for the outside. The 

 tree ten feet from the right-hand corner should be one of the 

 smallest class. The weeping Japan sophora grafted not more than 

 six feet high, the ever-flowering weeping cherry, the new weeping 

 thorn, the double scarlet thorn (Coccinnea flore plena) will make 

 pretty trees for such a place. If something to produce a quick, 

 luxuriant growth is preferred, the Judas tree, Cents canadensis, or 

 the Scamston weeping-elm, grafted on another stock seven or 

 eight feet high, will do ; though the latter will eventually become a 

 wide-spreading tree too large for the place. 



The isolated small tree, or large shrub, about seven feet from 

 the fence near the middle of the front, may be an Andromeda 

 arborea, or the Indian catalpa (the hardiness of which is not fully 

 tested north of Philadelphia), the purple-fringe (grown low as a 

 tree), the tree honeysuckle, Lonicera grandiflora, grown low on a 

 single stem, the Weigela amabilis, also in tree-form ; Josikia or 

 chionanthus-leaved lilac, the dwarf weeping cherry (a very slow 

 grower), the Chionanthus virgtnica (a little tender north of Phila- 

 delphia), the rose acacia grown over an iron frame, or any out- 

 arching, low, small tree, weeping or otherwise, the foliage of which 

 is pleasing throughout the season. Or, if a single evergreen is 

 preferred, any one of the following will do : the dwarf white-pine, 

 P. strobus compacta, the golden yew, Taxus aurea, the weeping 

 silver-fir, Picea pectinata pendula, the golden arbor-vitas, or the 



