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weeping arbor-vitae. None of these will grow to greater size than 

 the place requires, but they grow slowly. A pretty effect may be 

 produced here by planting the erect yew, Taxus erecta, where the 

 centre of the tree is indicated on the plan, with a golden arbor- 

 vitae in front and a golden yew behind it. The erect yew is taller 

 than the others, and very dark, so that if the three are planted not 

 more than one or two feet apart, they will grow into a beautiful 

 compact mass made up of three quite distinct tones of foliage. Or 

 another pretty substitute for the one small tree, as shown on the 

 plan, may be made by using the excessively slender Irish juniper for 

 a centre i, and grouping dose around it the golden arbor-vitae 2, the 

 Podocarpus (or Taxus) japonica 3, the dwarf silver-fir, Picea com- 

 pacta, 6, the pigmy spruce, Abies excelsa pygmcea, 4, the dwarf 

 hemlock, Abies canadensis parsoni, 5, and the creeping euonymus, 

 Japonicus radicans marginatus. This will in time make an irregu- 

 lar pyramid composed of an interesting variety of foliage and 

 color, and easily protected in winter, if the plants are of doubtful 

 hardiness or vigor. 



The vase and flower-beds in front of the bay-window need no 

 explanation. All the flower-beds shown on this plan, except the 

 one opposite the back-porch, should be filled only with flowering- 

 plants of the lowest growth : the bed excepted, and the place 

 behind it, shown as shrubbery, may be occupied by taller plants, 

 which are showy in leaves or flowers : but we think the effect will 

 be more constantly pleasing if the latter is filled with evergreen 

 shrubs from two to seven feet in height, mostly rhododendrons. 



At the front end of the bed of roses, on the right, we would 

 plant the Nordmans fir, Picea Nordmaniana, an evergreen tree of 

 superior foliage, and believed hardy in most parts of the country. 

 It eventually becomes a large tree, but will bear trimming when it 

 begins to encroach too much upon the lawn. 



The hemlock screen represented opposite the bath-room win- 

 dow should be thrown back to the end of the wash-room if the 

 owner prefers to have that strip of ground in lawn, rather than 

 under culture. We ask the reader to excuse us for having placed 

 it where it is, for the space between the house and the currant- 

 bushes allows of a pretty strip of lawn six feet wide, from which 



