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to offer satisfactory openings where indicated by the upper dotted 

 lines on each side. The groups of shrubbery are placed so 

 as to ilkistratc many of the suggestions of the rules given in 

 Chapter XI. No long vista of lawn is possible, but the groups 

 and single specimens of shrubs or dwarf trees, with a few bedding- 

 plants and flower-beds, if properly chosen, and planted in con- 

 formity with the plan, and well grown, will hardly fail to make 

 a yard of superior attractiveness ; especially pleasing as seen 

 from the bay-windows ; — the arrangement having been made with 

 reference to the effect from them. 



Description. — Let us begin at the front-entrance gate, from 

 which a walk four feet wide leads straight to the veranda entrance, 

 and a walk three feet in width to the kitchen entrance. On 

 each side the front gate arbor-vitae trees (the Siberian) are desig- 

 nated, with low masses of evergreen shrubs between them and 

 the fence. An opening to a straight walk like this is especially 

 appropriate for a verdant arch, and if the proprietor has the 

 patience to grow one, the substitution of the hemlock for the arbor- 

 vitae is recommended. For an arch, the trees should not be planted 

 more than two feet away from the walk. 



The only large trees on this plan are a pair of maples, about 

 twelve feet, diagonally, from the corners of the veranda and 

 main house respectively ; a white or Austrian pine on the right 

 border, four cherry trees in the right-side yard, and the pear trees 

 in the kitchen-garden department. The maples may be the purple- 

 leaved, and the golden-leaved varieties of the sycamore maple. A 

 hemlock screen or hedge bounds the croquet ground on the south ; 

 at the corner are a few Norway spruces ; next, in front, a group of 

 arbor-vitass ; then a continuous hedge of the same for twenty feet, 

 terminated by a group of arbor-vitX'S and yews chosen to exhibit 

 contrasts of color. 



The group on the left, between the upper dotted lines, is to be 

 composed of a variety of strong growing common shrubs, with a 

 Lawson's cypress or a Nordmanns fir, or the Chinese cypres.s, 

 Glypto-strobus sinensis, where the symbol of the arbor-vitae is 

 shown. Towards the street from that tree we would put in ever- 

 green shrubs only. 



