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planted, all these must be removed. Or the groups of shrubbery 

 around these trees may be composed entirely of rhododendrons if 

 the proprietor can afford it. The group to the left, adjoining the 

 neighbor-lot, is intended as a continuatfon of the group around the 

 left-hand gateway tree, and may be composed of similar shrubs of 

 larger growth. The two small pine trees farther up on the left, 

 marked i, are to be the mugho and dwarf white pines — the latter 

 towards the house. The group of shrubs (2) between these and 

 the carriage-way, and near the latter, should be choice small hardy 

 evergreens — say, for the centre, the weeping juniper, y. obloiiga 

 peihhila, or the erect yew, Taxus erecta; each side of this, on a line 

 parallel with the road, and three feet from the centre, the golden 

 arbor-vitas, and the golden yew ; at the ends, and three feet from 

 the latter, plant the dwarf silver-fir, Picea pedinata coinpacta, and 

 the dwarf spruce, Abies gregoriaiia. Outside the line of these, 

 and midway of the spaces between them, plant the pygmy spruce, 

 the dwarf black spruce, the dwarf Swedish juniper, the juniper 

 repanda dcnsa, the trailing juniper repens, and the Daphne 

 cneorum. The first pair of fir trees on the left, next the fence (3), 

 may be, one the Norway, and the other the oriental spruce. The 

 border along the fence is to be of hemlocks ; the next pair of firs 

 (4) may be the cephalonian fir, nearest the fence, and the Nord- 

 manns fir ten feet in advance of it. The pine tree (5) opposite the 

 bay-window of the room marked S, is improperly placed there. It 

 should be fifteen feet further towards the front of the lot ; and is 

 intended for the Bhotan pine. The two small trees on the left (6), 

 opposite the turn-circle, are a pair of Judas trees. The group of 

 four trees next the fence (7) may be a pair of sassafras in the 

 middle ; a weeping Japan sophora nearest the house, and the 

 white-flowering dogwood farthest from the house. An under- 

 growth nearest to the fence may be made with the red-twigged dog- 

 wood, Cornus alba, the flowering-currants, and the variegated-leaved 

 elder ; and the border continued to the rear corner with common 

 and well-known shrubs. No. 8 is for a Kolreutcria paniciilata, 

 connected by overarching shrubs with the side-border ; g is a 

 weeping beech ; 10, 10, masses of hemlocks ; the tree in the far 

 corner an Austrian pine; 11 a white pine, and behind it an 



