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hedge on the street line, but on the contrary the lawn is open 

 except at the entrances ; and one standing on the sidewalk at A, 

 though barred from all view of the circle by the mass of evergreens 

 opposite, may have pleasing glimpses into the place on the lines 

 A B, A C, and across these corners into the adjoining lot lawns. 



The two front gateways should be overarched with evergreen 

 topiary arches one side with arbor-vitae, and the other with hem- 

 locks, firs, or pines, as the soil and exposure may make one or the 

 other preferable. The glimpses into the grounds from under either 

 of these arches will extend the whole length of the lawn back to 

 the cold grape-house on the right, and from the left, back to the 

 grape-trellis that separates the vegetable-garden from the lawn. 

 A still longer vista may be made from the left-hand gateway by 

 making a decorative arch in the grape-trellis at the end of the 

 garden-walk which corresponds with the one at the end of the cold 

 grape-house. 



The evergreen group in the middle of the lot near the street 

 may be composed as follows : in the centre two Nordmanns firs, 

 four feet apart, on a line at right angles with the street ; on each 

 side of these a mass of hemlocks (say four on each side) for a 

 distance of sixteen feet each way ; and at each point of the group 

 single specimens of the weeping silver-fir and the weeping Norway 

 spruce. This will make the group about forty feet from point to 

 point, measuring from the stems of the last-named trees. 



The trees which arch the intersections of the entrance-walks 

 with the circular-walk, may be double pairs of sassafras on one 

 side, and one pair of kolreuterias on the other. At c, a weeping 

 beech; a.tg, the Chinese cypress (Glypto-strobus sinensis penduld) 

 south of New York, and north of it a group composed of the weep- 

 ing Norway spruce in the centre, and the following junipers around 

 it: the y. repanda densa, J. oblonga pendula, y. suecica nana, Jf. 

 spceroides ; or, instead of the junipers, the following dwarf firs, viz.: 

 the Abies nigra pumila, A. gregoriana, A. conica,A. canadensis inverta 

 (Sargent's hemlock), A. canadensis Parsoni (Parson's hemlock), the 

 Picea pedinata compacta, and the Picea hudsonica. At d and h, the 

 finest pines for which the soil and location are suited ; at e, the 

 Magnolia cordata; atf, a group of evergreen shrubs next the fence, 

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