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to A. The plants were set about two feet apart. A strong 

 clump was placed at N to screen the back yard. In this back 

 yard a few small fruit trees and a strawberry bed were planted. 



Low informal shrubs for front of porch and hanking against house 



3 Deutzia gracilis. 



6 Kerrias, green and variegated. 



3 Daphne Mezereum. 



3 Lonicera Halliana. 



3 Rubus phoenicolasius. 



3 Symphoricarpus vulgaris. 



4 Mahonias. 



1 Ribes aureum. 



1 Ribes sanguineum. 



1 Rubus crataegifolius. 



1 Rubus fruticosus var. laciniatus. 



These bushes were planted against the front of the house 

 (a porch on a high foundation extends to the right from O), 

 from the walk around to P, and a few of them were placed at 

 the rear of the house. 



Specimen shrubs for mere ornament, for this place 

 Azalea. 



Rhododendron. 

 Rose. 



2 Hydrangeas. 

 1 Snowball. 



1 each Forsythia suspensa and F. viridissima. 



2 Flowering almonds. 



These were planted in conspicuous places here and there 

 against the other masses. 



Here are one hundred excellent and interesting bushes planted 

 in a yard only fifty feet wide and one hundred feet deep, and 

 yet the place has as much room in it as it had before. There 



