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ing-currants, berberries, deutzias, red-twigged dogwoods, and honey- 

 suckles around them. At/, a choice selection of the most pleasing 

 shrubs, either deciduous or evergreen ; of the latter an assortment 

 of the best rhododendrons will make a superb group. At g, a 

 Magnolia machrophylla ; //, nearest the house, the Kolnutcria 

 paniculata; h, near the gate, the osage orange. At o, in the 

 centre of the front, a purple beech ; at 7n and ;/, groups composed 

 of the weeping Norway spruce {inverta) for the centres, and the 

 golden arbor-vitae, and the erect yew {Taxtis stricta or erecta), the 

 golden yew and the Podocarpus japonica, on opposite sides of them. 

 If for this central space it is desired to make a quick mass of 

 foliage in the place of these small groups, a weeping willow, or a 

 group of two or three osage orange trees planted at o^ a grouj) of 

 deutzias at in, and of weigelas or bush honeysuckles at «, will 

 quickly effect it. At the left of the gateway on the right, a pair of 

 pines, the white and Austrian ; / and q, the dwarf mountain pine 

 {P. pmnila) and the mugho pine {P. mugho) ; r, the dwarf white 

 pine ; and between these, while small, plant evergreen shrubs. At 

 s, is a belt of shrubs terminated by a pair of pines, the Austrian 

 and the Bhotan. At /, a pair of weeping birches ; at //, ?/, two 

 pairs of trees, the purple-leaved and the gold-leaved sycamore- 

 maples at one end, and the sugar and scarlet-maples at the other, 

 each pair near together ; and between the trees, while they are 

 young, a group of deciduous shrubbery. At v, a Magnolia soulan- 

 geana ; at w, the weeping silver-fir {Picea pectinata pendula) ; along 

 the boundary of the lot in the rear of w, a belt of hemlocks broken 

 by an occasional spur of spruce or pine trees ; x, x^ x, weeping 

 arbor-vitaes, junipers, or other elegant slender evergreens ; and at 

 2, another Magnolia machrophylla. On so large a place there will 

 be room around the house, and in the various groups, and along 

 the marginal belts of trees and shrubs, to introduce a hundred 

 things which we have not named ; and a reference to the plate of 

 symbols in connection with the ground-plan will explain what 

 we have not touched upon. 



