200 PLANS OF RESIDENCES 



letters the inferior trees and shrubbery. A and B are the purple- 

 leaved and the golden-leaved sycamore maples ; C, the weeping 

 willow ; D, the weeping beech ; E and F, the common and the 

 cut-leaved weeping birches ; G, the ginkgo or Salisburia tree ; H, 

 the purple-leaved beech; I, the Kolreideria paniculata ; J, J, the 

 red-rtowering, and the double white-flowering horse-chestnuts ; 

 K, K, a pair of pines in each place — the Bhotan {excelsa) and 

 white pine in one, and the Bhotan and Austrian in the other — to 

 be planted six feet apart, the Bhotan on the north side in both 

 cases ; L, white pine ; M, Austrian pine ; on the right of N, the 

 weeping Norway spruce ; and on the left, the Cembran pine, or 

 (south of New York and near the sea) the cypress, Glypto-strobus 

 sinensis ; O, the white or the Austrian pine, as the soil may be 

 better for one or the other ; P, a mass and belt of hemlocks ; Q, a 

 weeping Scotch elm; R, the grape-leaved linden; S, nearest, the 

 intersection of the walks, the sugar maple, and to the right of it 

 the purple-leaved sycamore maple ; T and V a mass of Austrian 

 pines, with an undergrowth of hemlocks ; U, catalpa ; W, a pair 

 of weeping Norway spruces, with hemlocks behind them ; X, the 

 weeping silver-fir backed by hemlocks and flanked with a group 

 of rhododendrons ; Y, a pair of pines, the white and the Pyrenean, 

 six feet apart ; Z, the Austrian and the Bhotan pines, the same 

 distance apart. 



Of the shrubbery we can indicate only the general character of 

 the groups, and name specimens only when standing singly, or a 

 few in a group. The masses a, «, may be shrubs of fine common 

 sorts, the taller in the centre line of the group, and the margins 

 filled in with rhododendrons; or may be composed entirely of 

 evergreens, such as the arbor-vitaes, yews, dwarf firs, junipers, and 

 pines, with rhododendrons and azalias among them. The de- 

 ciduous shrubs, however, would make a fine border in much less 

 time, and at less expense than the latter. At b, a Weigela aynabilis 

 in the centre, and on each side the weigelas rosea and hortoisia 

 nivea ; at r, the two deutzias crenata alba and crenata rubra flort 

 plena ; at d, d, d, d, d, masses of common shrubs, not allowed to 

 exceed seven feet in height, forced to make a dense mass at the 

 bottom, and planted to form an irregular outline next to the lawn ; 



