DESIGNS FOR ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. 35 



hedge-row of Siberian Arbor-vitse. 17 is a flower bed, 

 with an outside border made of the small-leaved, trailing 

 Juniper, or Juniperus procumbens. This magnificent 

 plant, Avhich, in small beds, forms the densest glaucous- 

 green carpet, may be easily trained for a border by plant- 

 ing small young plants at eight and ten inches apart, and 

 then guiding the main leader with small wooden pins in 

 the direction of the border. It offers something en- 

 tirely new in color and shape, and it is to be regretted 

 that it is so little in use. 



A second border, immediately around the flower-bed, 

 affording a greater contrast in color, would be the small 

 Tom Thumb Arbor- vitas a very precious novelty, too, 

 on account of its very dark foliage. 



At 18, on the northwest side of the house, there would 

 be a very favorable location for a group of Rhododendrons 

 and other so-called North American evergreen shrubs. 



At 19 may be placed two single bushes of Calycanthus 

 floridus, or Sweet-scented Shrub, or, still better, two 

 large vases or pieces of statuary. 



At 21, a circle, to be decorated with a Purple Beech, or 

 a good specimen of the Kilmarnock Willow. 



At 22, all along the eastern boundary, a row of Norway 

 Spruces, Balsam Firs, and American Arbor- vitae, in the 

 rear, planted at sufficient distance from each other to 

 permit a second row in front of them (alternating), about 

 four or five feet from the side of the walk. 



In this front line ought to be employed Siberian Arbor- 

 vitae, Irish and Swedish Junipers, Golden Arbor- vitae, 

 Upright Yews, Retinispora ericoides and Podocarpus. 



At 22 a, in the rear of the play-ground, there ought to 

 be the following shrubs, in three rows : for instance, in 

 the rear, the Venetian Sumac, Cercis Siliquastrum, and 

 Cercis Canadensis, Double White and Eed Flowering 

 Thorns, American Mountain Ash, etc., etc., but no larger 



