SUBURBAN RESIDENCES. 14l 



done in a small suburban garden, we shall give an account of under a distinct 

 head, after noticing the mode of planting common to both gardens, 



210. In the front gardens of both houses, close by the entrance gate to each 

 garden, there are the following trees and shrubs : — a cedar of Lebanon, a 

 walnut, a sweet chestnut, a purple beech, a Pyrus .Morbus, a Pyrus specta- 

 bilis, a Cerasus Mahaleb, a scarlet thorn, a laburnum, purple and white lilacs, 

 a syringa, a mountain ash, a Lycium barbarum, a Clematis Vitalba, the com- 

 mon and giant ivy, and the Virginian creeper. These eighteen kinds of trees 

 and shrubs are in two groups, one on each side of the entrance, immediately 

 within it ; and they form a dense mass of shade over the walk, and project 

 over the wall into the road. I'his produces a dark shade, both without and 

 within the entrance gates, which acts like the case of a telescope to the dis- 

 tant glimpse caught of the steps which ascend to the front door of each house. 

 If we imagine for a moment that there were no trees or shrubs immediately 

 within the entrance gates, the total want of shade and foreground, and, con- 

 sequently, of what artists call effect, would be felt in an instant by every man 

 of taste. Embracing the angles of the verandas near c, so as to connect both 

 houses with the scenery as far as the boundary walls, are two groups, the 

 same kinds of trees and shrubs being planted in each group ; viz. a cedar of 

 Lebanon, Robinia viscosa, -Sorbus hybrida, Cerasus Padus, C. nigra, C. sem- 

 perflorens, a variegated and a common holly, a Portugal laurel, pinaster, 

 Primus myrobalana, Ameldnchier Botryapium, a deciduous cypress, Phillj'rea 

 angustifolia, Aucuba japonica, evergreen and variegated hollies, Symphoria 

 racemosa, Persian lilac, rose acacia, and //ibiscus syriacus. These form 

 picturesque masses, and contain a sufficient number of evergreens to look 

 well in the winter season ; while, in spring, the myrobalan plum comes into 

 flower at the end of February or the beginning of March, and immediately 

 afterwards the amelanchier, and then the bird-cherry; next comes the .Morbus 

 pinnatifida, and then the Robinta viscosa. Li the autumn, the purple berries 

 of the bird-chei-ry, the red berries of the sorbus, and the white snow-berries 

 have a fine effect; as have the coral berries of the holly throughout the winter 

 and spring. There are two other main groups, the one to the north, and the 

 other to the south, of the pedestal and vase at o, in the separation wire fence. 

 These, in each garden, consist of a scarlet-flowered arbutus, rhododendron, 

 azalea, kalmia, Cydonia (Pyrus) japonica, mezereon, ikfespilus arbutifolia, 

 and Cytisus pui-piireus and sessilifolius, the latter two being grafted standard 

 high. From the windows of the front rooms on the ground floor, this 

 lengthened gi'oup makes an excellent middle distance between the pillars of 

 the veranda, with the clustering foliage of the fig and the grape round the 

 windows of the dining-rooms of the two houses as a foreground, and the trees 

 and shrubs within the front fence as a distance. In winter, the fruit of tlie 

 arbutus, and the flowers of the Cydonia japonica, make a fine appearance ; 

 and the latter shrub, which is indeed a truly valuable one, is more or less in 

 flower during the whole year. Immediately within the front fence, which 

 consists of a dwarf wall surmounted by an iron railing, is a row of variegated 

 hollies, of as many kinds as there are plants ; between each of which, when 

 first planted in 1823, was a standard rose : but all these, as well as every otlier 

 holly, have been since removed, in consequence of the vigorous growth of 

 the hollies. Among the hollies are planted, as standards, nine thorns. Those 

 next the entrance gates are the scarlet, that in the centre is the Crataegus 



