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A screen for a service yard 63 



An English wall boundary with flowers 68 



Marble against a wall of green 68 



Flower garden secluded by an evergreen hedge 69 



A spruce hedge properly trimmed 69 



A wooden fence with arbor gateway 74 



An architectural boundary on a small place 74 



A lattice enclosure for the rose garden 75 



Combinations of hedge and stone wall 78 



A boundary at the top of a grade 79 



A landscape boundary 79 



A hedge boundary with lych gate entrance 80 



An entrance flanked by poplars 81 



A doorway in a garden wall , 84 



A board fence topped by a lattice 84 



Fence and gate, Longfellow Home, Cambridge, Mass 85 



Arched wooden gateway in an old stone wall 85 



A "house" and a "home" _ 86 



Birch trees on a lawn and in the wild 87 



An Italian effect with cedars 98 



Evergreens along a drive 99 



A planting of evergreens in the curve of a drive 99 



The skyline of an evergreen group 100 



Natural planting of young hemlocks 100 



Old conifers sheltering a homestead 101 



Shrubbery too dense along the base of a house 106 



A shrubbery thicket in bloom 106 



Cymes of the common elder 107 



A solitary Deutzia 107 



A shrubbery group of one species in many varieties no 



A flowering hedge no 



A massing of trees and shrubs creating a vista in 



Narcissus naturalized on a river bank 120 



New England asters 120 



An old-fashioned flower garden 121 



Lupines in a border 128 



