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narrow beds may be cut adjoining the foundation-walls, for beds of 

 low or slender annuals, which will not sprawl too far away from 

 the house. The space will certainly be more profitable to the eye 

 in this way than it can be in fruits and vegetables. 



PLATE VI. This plan is so similar to the preceding, and both 

 are of so simple a character, that the intelligent reader will learn by 

 an examination of the plate what manner of planting is intended. 

 This plate differs principally from Plate V in having four pine trees 

 of conspicuous size on the street margin of the lot. This pre- 

 supposes a well-drained sandy soil, for without a congenial soil 

 the pines will not develop great beauty. Supposing this condition 

 to be satisfied, evergreens may be made a specialty of this place, 

 and used as follows : Close by the left-hand gate-post (entering 

 from the street), plant a bunch of the common border-box ; a foot 

 from it, and midway between the walk and side fence, a plant of 

 the broad-leaved tree-box ; a foot further, on the same mid-line, 

 a plant of the gold or silver striped-leaved tree-box ; then fill 

 in with hemlocks a foot apart, and a foot from the fence, as 

 far as the group is designated. Four feet from the same gate- 

 post, and two feet from the walk, plant a JPodocarpus japonica ; 

 eight feet from the gate, and three from the walk, the Cephalo- 

 taxus fortunii mascula ; four feet beyond, and four feet from the 

 walk, the golden arbor-vitae. Between the right-hand gate-post and 

 the pine tree, fill next to the gate with the common English ivy, to 

 trail on the ground and form a bush ; next, midway between the 

 fence and walk, and four feet from the post, the golden yew (Taxus 

 baccata aurea) ; next, same distance from the walk, Sargent's 

 hemlock {A. canadensis inverta) ; and between the pine and the 

 fence, fill in with mahonias (aquifolium and japonicuni). The 

 pine here alluded to, to be the common white pine. The 

 dwarf trees shown on the plan, twenty feet from the gate, are 

 the Abies gregoriana on one side the walk, and on the other 

 the Picea hudsonica, or the Picea pectinata compacta. These, and 

 the gateway groups, form an entrance through evergreens alone. 

 In climates more severe than that of New York city, substi- 

 tute the Pinus strobus compacta for the Cephalotaxus fortunii 



