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would plant a pair of white-pines, one on each side of the gate- 

 way, and not far from the posts). Under and between the trees h, 

 and g, g, we would have a mass of rhododendrons ; or, if cheaper 

 and more rapid growing materials for a group are preferred, the 

 space may be filled with the variegated-leaved and wax-leaved 

 privets and low-spreading spireas ; at 7', w, and x, in the next 

 group, may be planted a choice of deutzias, honeysuckles, syringas, 

 lilacs, and snow-balls — one of each. Around the firs at/ and g, 

 while they are small, a group of rhododendrons may be planted. 

 The single small shrubs (or trees) opposite the front corner of the 

 house, may be single well-grown bushes of Deutzia gracilis ; or 

 the double flowering-plum, Fnimcs sinensis; or the purple-leaved 

 berberry ; or, if dwarf evergreens are preferred, the Irish and 

 Swedish junipers, the Japan podocarpus, the tree-box (for clip- 

 ping), the golden arbor-vitae, the golden yew, or the erect yew^ 

 Taxus erecta, may all be rivals for these places. With constant 

 care to keep them to their most slender form, those beautiful 

 novelties, the weeping Norway spruce and silver firs, Abies excclsa 

 inverta and Picea pecthiata pendida, might grace this place better 

 than anything else, though they may in time grow to great height. 



In the four inner angles of the two bay-windows, unless the ex- 

 posure is to the south or southwest, we would plant rhododendrons 

 of medium size, and fill the corner-beds with the same, graded 

 down to the smallest varieties at the points. In the middle, 

 between the bay-windows, two feet from the house, plant the 

 Cephalotaxiis fortunii mascula, and beyond it, to complete the 

 group, three flowering deciduous shrubs graded in height as fol- 

 lows : Six feet from the house the double-flowered pink deutzia ; 

 two feet further out the Deutzia gracilis ; and two feet from that, 

 oft the point, the Daphne creoru7n. While these shrubs are small, 

 use the ground between them for annuals and bulbous flowers. 



The group under the pine tree, and between it and the rear 

 veranda steps, may be composed of two varieties of the tree-box 

 near the steps — the common and the gold-edged leaved — Sargent's 

 hemlock near the corner of the road, and the variegated-leaved 

 privet, the purple berberry, the variegated-leaved elder, and some 

 kalmias to complete the bed. It is essential that there should be 



