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We have alluded to the length of carriage-road on this lot as 

 disproportioned to the size of the residence. This is so decided 

 that we must consider the plan as an example of a fault to be 

 avoided, rather than a plan to be followed. Not only the length 

 of the drive is objectionable for a residence of this simple 

 character, but also the corner entrance, which is usually the 

 least convenient point for crossing the street-gutters and the 

 side-walks. Plate X shows a much more sensible entrance and car- 

 riage-way. 



In other respects this plan is better ; the grouping being such 

 as would give very pleasing effects, whether looking towards the 

 house or from it. On the south are several openings to the street, 

 and on the north one only, connecting with private grounds on 

 that side. 



Supposing the roads, walks, orchard, and garden to have been 

 laid out as shown by the plan, the following trees and shrubs are 

 suggested for some of the principal places. The lines conforming 

 in part to the forms of the groups of shrubs are intended to show 

 the form of beds to be enriched and prepared for them. 



The group at a, on the left of the corner entrance-way, to be 

 composed of a weeping willow or a weeping Scotch elm in the 

 centre, and the three best varieties of dogwood on the three points 

 of the group ; — the bed to be filled, while these are growing, with 

 spreading shrubs of low growth. The group, on the right of the 

 same entrance, to have an American weeping elm in the centi'e, 

 and at /, /, k, and /, the American and European Judas trees, the 

 broad-leaved strawberry tree {Enonymus latifolius), and the dog- 

 wood {Cornus florida) ; and between them the syringas, weigelas, 

 variegated elder, flowering currants, etc., etc. 



The trees at b and c may be the double-flowering white and the 

 red-flowering horse-chestnuts ; between them and the fence a mass 

 of large shrubs. At d, a weeping beech ; between it and the fence 

 plant shrubs, to be removed when the beech needs all the space ; 

 near the fence Siberian arbor-vitaes to form a concave hedge to, 

 and across, (overarching) the side-entrance gate. At e, ten feet 

 from both the walk and the drive, a pair of sassafras trees four feet 

 apart, with an oval mass of low spreading shrubs — spireas, flower- 



