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briefly describe those features of the place which need expla- 

 nation. 



The front entrance of the place (the one at the bottom of the 

 page on the plate) is designed to have an elm tree arch over it, 

 similar to that shown by Fig. 40 in Chapter XIV. The group A, 

 on the right near the gate, may be entirely composed of rhodo- 

 dendrons. 



The group E is composed of a pair of weeping silver-firs 

 (nearest the gate), the mugho pine on the left, and the dwarf 

 white pine, P. compacta, farthest from the gate. 



Group B, on the right, will shade the walk with the low and 

 broadly spreading top of the Kolreuteria paJiiculata at its point, 

 behind which may be another group of rhododendrons, and close 

 to the fence a compact border of hemlocks, which must be allowed 

 to spread well upon the ground, and mingle their boughs with the 

 rhododendrons, but not to exceed eight or ten feet in height. 



The group C, with a sugar maple (in the place of which a pair of 

 Magnolia machf'ophyllas, planted close together, might be substituted 

 with good effect) in front of it, is to be composed of a circle of 

 choice dwarf evergreens on the side next the house, backed by a 

 hemlock border along the fence, as described for the preceding 

 group. 



From the following list a choice of dwarf evergreen trees 

 or shrubs can be made : Piniis strobus compacta, Pitius stro- 

 bus pmnila, Finns sylvestris piimila, Pinus mughus, Picea pec- 

 tinata compacta, Picea pectinata pendula, Picea hudsonica, Abies 

 nigra puffiila, Abies nigra pendula, Abies excelsa gregoriana, Abies 

 excelsa iirrerta, Abies e. conica, Abies canadensis invcrta, Abies 

 canadensis parsoni, Andromeda Jloribunda, tree-box, Biixus ar- 

 borea, Hypericum kalmianum and H. prolijicum, the kalmias, 

 the creeping junipers jfuniperus repens, jfuniperiis repanda deiisa, 

 y. suecica, y. siiecica nana, jf. hibernica, J. oblonga pendula, 

 y. spceroides, Thuja aurea, Thuja occidentalis compacta, Taxus 

 baccata aurea, Taxus erecta, Taxus baccata elegantissijna, Cepha- 

 lotaxus fortwiii mascula, Taxus or Podocarpus japonica, the rho- 

 dodendrons, and the mahonias. For the sizes and character- 

 istics of all these, we must refer the reader to the descriptions ot 



