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be the best. Passing along to the left, the tree marked l>, is in- 

 tended for the weeping beech ; beyond, the walks form a circle 

 for a grand mass of bedding-plants, in a bay of e\ergreens. The 

 tree c, may be the Magnolia inachrophylla ; at d, a pair consisting 

 of a sassafras and a white-flowering dogwood; opposite to them a 

 group of three pines, the Bhotan, Austrian, and white. On the 

 right (returning towards the tunnel), the wall between the pines is 

 to be screened by a collection of small evergreens. As they will 

 have only a north exposure until their tops are higher than the 

 division fences, a hemlock hedge close to the fence, with a formal 

 collection of rhododendrons and evergreen dwarfs in front of it, 

 will be best there. The pine tree at the last turn of the walk is 

 intended for the dwarf white {compacta) ; or, a weeping Japan 

 sophora would be well placed there. 



The suppositional plantings of the other lots back of the alley 

 we must leave to the reader ; except to mention that the long wall 

 which divides the place just described from its neighbor, offers on 

 its south side too good an opportunity for a grape-border to be 

 lost. We have therefore used its entire length for that purpose. 



The reader will hardly fail to notice that the corner place on 

 the left, which originally had double the width of lot of its next 

 neighbors, and that too on a corner where bay-windows, and 

 ground well improved on the side, gave it many advantages in point 

 of beauty and comfort, has now no pleasure-ground that deserves 

 the name compared with those which have been secured by means 

 of the tunnel, in connection with the houses on the twenty-five 

 feet lots. 



