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And what we have said in regard to plant- 

 ing on the prairie applies more or less to 

 planting everywhere. In the door-yard and 

 on the lawn care should be taken to avoid 

 the stiffness and mechanical look which will 

 be the result of planting in straight lines. 

 City lots and streets are, almost necessarily, 

 bounded by such lines. But even a city lot 

 can be changed from a square inclosure or pen 

 into a lovely pleasure-ground, by a little care 

 in selecting trees and shrubs of various char- 

 acter and throwing them into graceful curves, 

 instead of ranging them in lines parallel with 

 the boundary fences. 



Planting Evergreens. 



We should leave the last of our questions 

 answered incompletely if we were not to add 

 a few words in regard to the planting of ever- 

 greens, or the conifers, including the larches 

 and some others which are not strictly ever- 

 greens. These trees are in themselves so 

 beautiful, and add so much to the general 

 effect of planting, by the pleasing variety 



