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have been carefully renio\ed to the cellar or the green-house. 

 A pine tree is shown on the left near the house. This is ex- 

 ceptionally large. It is intended for a white pine, which grows 

 rapidly in breadth as well as height, and might soon cover half the 

 width of the lot with its branches. But it is readily "drawn up," 

 as foresters say, — that is, it is easily reconciled to the loss of its 

 lower limbs, and sends its vigor to the upper ones ; so that it 

 naturally becomes an over-arching tree. In time it will over-top, 

 and form an evergreen frame for that side of the house, while the 

 lawn under it will be unbroken. The small round shrubs near the 

 outside corners of the bay-windows may be, one, a golden arbor- 

 vitae, and the other the golden yew, both rather dwarf evergreens, 

 of pleasing form, and warm-toned verdure. Between the bay- 

 windows, and near the house, is a suitable place for an elegant 

 rose-pillar or trellis, and a bed of roses. Directly in front of it, 

 and sixteen feet from the house, is a good position for a fine vase, 

 or a basket in a bed of flowers, as shown on the plan. The pair 

 of trees nearly in the middle of the front, near the street, we would 

 have the weeping Japan sophora, on a line with the middle of the 

 house, and not more than four feet apart. The main walk is repre- 

 sented on the plan by two modes of planting; the one, marked A, 

 characterized by an alternation of shrubs and bedding-plants on 

 the right, and beds of flowers on the left ; the other, marked B, by 

 a symmetric disposition of three groups of trees crossing and 

 arching over the walk, and a belt of shrubs against the fence. 



For the first, or shrub and flower-border plan, the following 

 selection of shrubs is recommended on the fence-border. All the 

 way from the street, to opposite the house, we would plant the 

 Irish and English ivy close to the bottom of the fence, and would 

 endeavor to make it cover the latter completely. Supposing the 

 fence not to be more than four or five feet high, these ivies can 

 generally be made to effect this, and although the growth near the 

 top may often be winter-killed, the plants, if taken care of, will 

 finally make a rich wall of verdure. If there is no probability of 

 eventually joining, by openings on that side, with neighbors' im- 

 provements, it will be a great addition to the beauty of this 

 border to have the fence a well-made stone wall, upon which the 



