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We must be careful always to keep open considerable 

 stretches of turf, endeavoring rather to flank than to cross 



with plants the direct line of 

 vision through to the back- 



PARSONS' SILVER FIR, WEEPING NORWAY SPRUCE, AND WEEPINQ LARCH. 



ground. It should be our object always to compose a 

 pleasing landscape for winter by means of intelligently 

 combined color and form, but never to forget the homely 



