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feet from it, a rustic summer house, with evergreens, 

 shrubs, etc., surrounding and vines entwined upon it. 

 And then the straight lines mark the rows of grapes, 

 while bordering the footpath is a belt of perennials, shrubs, 

 etc., etc., until you reach indications of trees by dots; 

 then skipping a space of some twenty feet, for the pur- 

 pose of passing a wagon, should it be desirable ever so to 

 do, comes a bank, en masse, of flowering shrubs against 

 the footpath, backed up with dwarf apples and pears, until 

 within about twenty feet of the line boundary, which space 

 is devoted to strawberries. 



Going back now to the entrance, on the right of the 

 entrance and the carriage road we have beds or masses of 

 rock work, evergreen and flowering shrubs, with elm, 

 weeping poplar, birch, etc., while bordering the carriage 

 way, most of the way to the house, are cherries. A quince 

 and dwarf pear orchard is off at the right, two or three 

 rows of grapes, and then the vegetable garden ; while the 

 stiffness of the avenue of cherries has been broken by 

 throwing out other trees and grouping from place to place, 

 something as my dots indicate. 



An apple and. standard pear and peach orchard is south 

 of the garden plot, while on the lawn the flower beds are 

 shown, cut out of and surrounded by grass. 



Directly in front of the house, some twenty feet or so 

 wide, is a bank of rock work planted with vines and ever- 

 green shrubs. Evergreen trees, as well as deciduous orna- 

 mental sorts, are at the right of the house and in among 

 the orchard. The rear portion of this place is blocked 

 out and planted in lines with fruit trees, vines, small fruits, 



