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Austrian pine ; and hemlocks and white pines fill the border 

 towards the carriage-house. 



On the right of the lawn the fruit trees are sufficiently symbol- 

 ized. At 12, a purple beech; at 13, a group of the choicest shrubs 

 increasing in size as they recede from the house. For the point 

 nearest the carriage-road the Andromeda fioribunda is well suited ; 

 eighteen inches behind it the Deutzia gracilis ; the same distance 

 from that, two plants side by side and one foot apart from the Rho- 

 dodendron roseum elegans ; then pairs of plants of rhododendrons 

 in the following order, R. album candidissima, R. grandiJloru7n 

 gloriosum ; and beyond them, for the end of the bed, Sargent's 

 hemlock, or the pendulous Norway spruce, A. e. inverta ; or, 

 the weeping silver-fir, Picea p. pejidula. The group at the turn of 

 the carriage-road, and on a line with the pear trees, may be com- 

 posed of any good common shrubs of large size, being careful to 

 place those which grow bare at the bottom in the rear of those 

 whose foliage bends gracefully to the ground. The bed adjoining 

 the rear veranda is for the choice small pet-flowers of the lady 

 of the house, whatever they may be. 



On the front, the large tree to the right of the carriage-road, 

 nearest the house, is intended for the cut-leaved weeping birch, 

 or a pair of them planted but a few feet apart. At 14 may be a 

 single plant of the old red tartarian honeysuckle, grown in rich 

 ground and allowed to spread upon the lawn. At 15, on the 

 end towards the house, a Japan weeping sophora grafted not 

 more than seven feet high ; in the middle, on the side towards 

 the street, the Androtneda arborea ; and on either side of that 

 the Deiitzias crefiaia alba, and Crenata rubra. At 16, towards 

 the house, the broad-leaved strawberry tree Enonymus latifo- 

 lius ; on the left of the group the Weigela rosea; four feet to 

 the right of it the Weigela atnabalis ; four feet to the right again, 

 the Weigela arborea grandijiora ; and at the right end of the 

 group, the great-leaved snow-ball. Viburnum machrophyllum ; and 

 between these and the strawberry tree, the dwarf snow-ball, Vi- 

 burrmni anglicum. At 17 plant the great-leaved magnolia, M. 

 machrophyllum. At 18 we would make a flat pine tree arch over 

 the gateway, as suggested in Chapter XIV. At 19 is a bed of 



