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evergreen trees in Part II. By selecting the smallest evergreens 

 for the front of the group, and placing the larger ones behind, even 

 a small bed like this will accommodate a large number of speci- 

 mens. The side towards the veranda is laid out in a formal 

 circle for convenience in first laying it out, but as the planting 

 progresses, and as it becomes desirable to add one small thing 

 after another to the group, this, as well as some of the other 

 groups, may be enlarged in the manner shown by the dotted lines ; 

 or, it can be laid out in that manner at first, if the list of small 

 choice evergreens to be purchased is large enough to fill it. Most 

 of the finer dwarf evergreens are rare and costly compared with 

 common sorts, so that the lists must be made with prudence, in 

 order that these, together with other more indispensable purchases 

 from the nurseries, shall not amount to so large a sum as to sur- 

 prise and discourage the planter. Where the resources of the 

 proprietor will not permit him to procure at once everything that 

 can be advantageously used on the place, it is best to plant, the 

 first season, all the larger (which are usually the commoner and 

 cheaper) trees and shrubs, keeping the beds filled with showy 

 annuals, while acquiring, year by year, choice additional collections 

 of permanencies. But it .is quite essential to the formation of 

 tasteful grounds that all the large permanent trees and shrubs be 

 placed properly in the beginning, so that whatever is afterwards 

 added will be of such subsidiary character as will group with and 

 around the former. 



The group D, from the gate to the pear tree, should be com- 

 posed of a mass of low evergreen trees or shrubs planted about six 

 feet from the walk; and from the foot- walk gate to the carriage 

 gate with a hedge of Siberia arbor-vitae planted two feet from the 

 fence. Between this hedge and the pear tree, at the intersection 

 of the walks, there will be room enough for the following : mugho 

 pine (P. mughus), the dwarf white pine (P. s. compacta), the Ceph- 

 alotaxus fortunii mascuZa, the conical yew (Taxus erecta\ the 

 golden yew (Taxus aurea), the golden arbor-vitae (Thuja aurea), 

 Sargent's hemlock (Abies canadensis inverta), and the weeping 

 juniper (J. oblonga pendula). By alternating the dark and light 

 colored foliage of these evergreen shrubs, placing the dark ones 



