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chestnuts, maples, and elms are usually the most beautiful rivals 

 for such places. Of horse-chestnuts we would recommend the 

 common white for one side, and for the other side the double 

 white flowering, which blooms several weeks later than the 

 common sorts, and forms a taller tree in proportion to its 

 breadth. The red-flowering horse-chestnuts are lower and 

 rounder-headed trees, of slower growth, and would not pair so 

 well with either of the sorts named, but would be very ap- 

 propriate if used on both sides. Of a totally different character 

 from any of these named, is the cut-leaved weeping birch, of 

 rapid growth, elegant at all seasons, and also adapted to these 

 positions. 



Opposite ^, ten feet from the fence, is a Norway spruce, or, if 

 the location and latitude are not too cold for it, the Nordmanns fir, 

 J'/cea non/mam'ana, which, in rich soils, has foliage of unusual 

 beauty. Back of it towards the fence, fill in with hemlocks, arbor- 

 vitaes, and yews, which grow to the ground and make an impene- 

 trable mass of evergreen foliage. The side gateway is intended to 

 be covered with a hemlock-arch of some of the forms suggested in 

 Chapter XIV, which should connect with a continuous hedge, 

 broken at w, //, by one or two pines, and varied from the pines to 

 the carriage-way gate with a belt of many kinds of shrubs. At tr, 

 five feet from the fence, plant the Kolreuteria paniculata, and at b, 

 near the fence, a bed of low-growing spireas. The group between 

 2 and 4 may be composed of bush honeysuckles or of shrul:)by e\er- 

 greens. The small shrub nearly over 2 may be an Abies grcgoriana, 

 or a golden yew. The group in the left-hand corner may be com- 

 posed of good old shrubs like lilacs, the purple berberry, weigelas, 

 deutzias, and the purple-leaved filbert ; and for the two trees we 

 would suggest the common catalpa for the place ten feet from the 

 fence, and the Magnolia niachrophylla for the one nearer the house. 

 On the left, on the line of the middle of the front veranda, and 

 twenty feet from the left side of the lot, a single specimen of the 

 Bhotan pine, P. cxcelsa, or the two weeping firs, Abies inverta and 

 Picea pectitiata pcndula ; just behind them some of the yews of the 

 podocarpus or cephalotaxus tribe ; back of these, along the fence, a 

 dense mass of hemlocks, with now and then some light-colored or 



