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back of the front line of the house, is a row of four cherry trees, 

 and two others are indicated on the rear part of the croquet-ground. 

 Six standard pear trees, on the other side of the house, form a row 

 parallel with a continuous grape-trellis which divides the lawn from 

 the vegetable-garden. Some peach trees may be planted in the 

 garden-square next the cow-house. The borders by the fences 

 around the back of the lot furnish ample room for currants, rasp- 

 berries, and blackberries. 



The decorative planting of the lawn-ground may be as follows : 

 on each side of the gateway, at a, plant a group of pines, white, 

 Austrian, and Bhotan, to be clipped when they begin to trespass 

 on the walk, and to overarch it when large enough. The group on 

 the left of the walk, directly in front of the same entrance, should 

 be composed of shrubby evergreen trees or shrubs, diminishing to 

 those of small size at the point. At b, the weeping silver-fir. At 

 /-, c, fifteen feet from the front corners of the house, a pair of cit/ier 

 of the following species, of the varieties named : — of beeches, the 

 purple-leaved and the fern-leaved ; of birches, the old weeping and 

 the cut-leaved weeping ; of horse-chestnuts, the double-white and 

 the red-flowering ; of lindens, the American basswood and the 

 grape-leaved ; of magnolias, the tnachrophylla and the cordata ; of 

 mountain ashes, the oak-leaved ; of maples, the purple-leaved 

 and the gold-leaved sycamore ; of oaks, the scarlet {coccinca) on 

 both sides ; of tulip trees (whitewood), there being no distinct 

 varieties, the same on both sides, or a tulip tree on one side, and a 

 virgilia or Magnolia cordata on the other. Our own choice among 

 these would be of birches, maples, or horse-chestnuts. 



At d, the face of the hedge may be broken by a projecting group 

 of yews and arbor-vitaes. At e, a group of rhododendrons. At/and 

 g any one of the following deciduous species of small low trees, if 

 grown with care and symmetry, viz.: the Indian catalpa (C h'mia- 

 layensis) south of Philadelphia; the Chinese cypress {Glypto-stro- 

 bus sinensis) ; the silver-bell {Halesia tetraptera) ; the sassafras 

 (although rather large for the place) ; the dwarf horse-chestnuts, 

 Favia coccinca, F. piitnila pcndula, and F. cornea superba ; the Euro- 

 pean bird cherr)-, Frunus padus ; the American white-flowering 

 and the Cornelian cherry dogwoods, C. Jiorida and C. mas ; the 



