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at e, the oblong weeping juniper, y. oblonga pendula ; f, a pair of 

 weeping Japan sophoras grafted nine feet high, and planted ten 

 feet apart ; g, the Chinese white magnolia ; h, a mass of rhodoclen- . 

 drons and purple magnolias ; i, i, hemlock gateway arches the 

 hemlocks to form a dense screen for ten or fifteen feet on each side 

 of the arch; j, the Hudson's Bay fir; k, the Magnolia machrophylla; 

 I (adjoining the house), a mass of evergreens of dwarf character, 

 including rhododendrons, kalmias, and azalias ; m and n, hemlock 

 screens ; 0, a mass of rhododendrons. The small group under the 

 corners of the drawing-room bay-windows may be composed of the 

 English or Irish ivys in the corners, and low varieties of rhododen- 

 drons ; or, of brilliant bedding-plants alone. 



This place is large enough to make a conservatory a desirable 

 feature. If wanted in connection with the house, by using the 

 room marked P as a library-room, the room L (if that side of 

 the house has an east exposure) would be an admirable place 

 for it. If a distinct structure is preferred, a good place would 

 be on a line with the carriage-road, and ten feet from it, in the 

 corner of the orchard nearest the house. 



The large flower-bed near L is intended for large bedding 

 plants. The great rose-bed at the intersection of the walks on the 

 right would require to be filled with uncommon skill to make it 

 pleasing throughout the summer season, though it may be superbly 

 beautiful in June, and interesting under ordinary treatment, with 

 partial bloom, until frosts. In winter and early spring, however, it 

 can hardly be otherwise than unsightly. A group for that place, 

 of more continuous beauty, which will cost less labor in its main- 

 tenance, may be composed of the following evergreens: for the 

 centre the weeping Norway spruce* ( inverta ); around it the follow- 

 ing, the positions for which must be determined by a study of their 

 characters : the Sargent hemlock, Parson's dwarf hemlock, varie- 

 gated-leaved tree-box, golden and weeping arbor-vitses, the erect 

 yew (erecta\ the golden yew, the Cephalotaxus fortunii mascula, the 

 Podocarpus japonica, the creeping juniper (repens], the juniper 

 repanda densa, the juniper oblonga pendula, the juniper spczroides, 

 the Hudson's Bay fir hudsonica, and the dwarf firs, Picea pectinata 

 compacta and Abies gregoriana. 



