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sycamore maple ; H (though it is not so marked), we would pre- 

 fer to make a pair of pines, the Austrian and the white, the former 

 in the rear of the latter. The pine tree directly west of the bed- 

 room may be either the white, Austrian, Bhotan, or Pyrenean, 

 the two latter being the most interesting, but of uncertain lon- 

 gevity. Beginning at the right-hand front entrance, J, K, may be 

 Scotch weeping elms, and I, the Scamston elm. The shrubbery at 

 and near the entrance is for effect during the first ten years after 

 planting, and to be removed when the elms shadow that entrance 

 sufficiently. At L, plant a Kolreuteria paniculata ; at M, the 

 paulonia ; at N and O, weeping birches ; at P, the Magnolia 

 tnachrophylla ; at Q, Nordmanns fir ; at R, a Magnolia tripctata ; 

 at S, the weeping beech ; at T, a white or Austrian pine ; at U, a 

 hemlock screen ; at V, a group of Norway spruces. The fruit trees 

 on the plan may be known by their symbols. 



Of shrubbery and shrubby trees the middle group (unlettered) 

 near the front is the most important, as it is visible from almost 

 every point of view in and near the grounds. Measured on the 

 curved line of its centre, it is fifty feet in length, and may be made 

 an artistic miniature arboretum of choice things, either evergreens 

 or deciduous ; but should be all one or the other, on its upper 

 outline ; though the under-shrubs may be deciduous and evergreen 

 mingled. In either case its arrangement should be planned, and 

 its materials selected by a skillful gardener. It is impracticable, in 

 the limits of this work, to present the working details for such 

 groups on a scale that can be readily followed ; we therefore 

 merely suggest that the centre should be made with something 

 that will not exceed twenty feet in height at maturity, and the 

 group should diminish in height at the sides, so that the points 

 may be occupied by interesting dwarfs that may be overlooked by 

 persons passing on the sidewalk. 



The shrubberies at a, and b, b, b, b, d, and c, are simply masses 

 of the good old syringas, lilacs, honeysuckles, snow-balls, currants, 

 altheas, and the newer weigelas, deutzias, spireas, and other shrubs, 

 which may be arranged in a hundred different ways to give the 

 foliage and forms of each a good setting. 



The small tree at c, may be the American red-bud or Judas tree, 



