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P. Bed for favorite fragrant annuals or low shrubs. 



Q (by the side of the kitchen). Bed for flowering-vines to train on 

 the house, or, if the exposure be southerly, or southeasterly, 

 some good variety of grape-vine. Whichever side of the rear 

 part of the house has. the proper exposure to ripen grapes 

 well, cannot be more pleasingly covered than with neatly 

 kept grape-vines ; which should not be fastened directly to 

 the house, but on horizontal slats from six inches to a foot 

 from the house ; and these should be so strongly put up 

 that they may be used instead of a ladder to stand upon to 

 trim the vines and gather the fruit. 



R. Rhododendrons. 



S. Bed of cannas, or assorted smaller plants with brilliant leaves 

 of various colors. . 



T, U, V, X, Z. A bed of rhododendrons. 



W, W, W. May be common deciduous shrubs of any favorite full- 

 foliaged sort. 



Y. Rhododendrons and azalias. 



Opposite the corner of the veranda where fuschias are indi- 

 cated, the space should be filled between the Irish juniper and 

 the fence with the golden arbor-vitae and the Podocarpus japonica, 

 planted side by side. 



The foregoing list for planting is made on the assumption that 

 the owner is, or desires to be, an amateur in the choicest varieties 

 of small evergreens, as well as in flowers, and willing to watch 

 with patience their slow development ; for there is no doubt that 

 with deciduous shrubs a showy growth of considerable beauty can 

 be secured in much less time. Yet the type of embellishment 

 made with such a collection of evergreens as have been named for 

 this place, is so much rarer, and has so greatly the advantage in 

 its autumn, winter, and spring beauty, that we would have little 

 hesitation in adopting it. 



For the benefit, however, of those who wish a quicker display 

 of verdure in return for their expense and labor in planting, we 

 subjoin an essentially different list of trees and shrubs for the 

 same plan, viz. : 



