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many more qualities which suit it for the places indicated, than 

 any other evergreen, that we would make its use a specialty of the 

 plan. The exquisite Bhotan pine is still of doubtful longevity 

 with us ; that is to say, it occasionally dies out after eight or ten 

 years of healthy growth, just when its fountain-like tufts of droop- 

 ing foliage have become so conspicuously beautiful as to endear it 

 greatly to the owner. The same may be said of the long-leaved 

 Pyrrenean pine. Neither the Austrian or the Scotch pines drop 

 their lower limbs with so little injury to their symmetry as the 

 white pine, nor have either of them so fine a texture of foliage or 

 wood when seen near by. On small lots, ground-room cannot 

 well be afforded for that extension of the branches of evergreens 

 upon a lawn, which constitutes one of their greatest beauties where 

 there is space enough around to allow them to be seen to advan- 

 tage. Therefore trees which develop their beauty overhead, and 

 permit the lawn to be used and seen under their boughs, are more 

 desirable. 



Plate VII. 



A /ong; narroiv House, tait/i Front near the Street, oti an In-Lot sixty 

 feet wide, and of eonsiderable depth. 



We have here an inside lot of sixty feet front, occupied to the 

 depth of one hundred and thirty feet by the house, the walks and 

 the ground embellishments. The kitchen-garden is back of the 

 grape trellis, which should be of an ornamental character. 'I'he 

 house is stretched out to correspond with the form of the lot, which 

 is supposed to have no desirable ground connections with the adjoin- 

 ing lots, yet not so disagreeably surrounded as to make it neces- 

 sary to shut out by trees and shrubs the out-look over the fences 

 from the side-windows of the bay. The style of planting here 

 shown is such as would suit only a person or family of decided 

 taste for flowers, and the choicest selections of small shrubs. In 

 the rear left-hand corner is room enough for two cherry trees, 

 under which the lawn forms a sufficient drying-yard, and a con- 

 venient currant-border utilizes a space next the fence. Besides 



