RESIDENTIAL PARKS 179 



tinctly in view the open-air comfort that is needed for 

 each and all of the houses. It might seem, at first 

 sight, that little planting would be needed in such a 

 thickly-wooded region, but it is astonishing how many 

 plants can be used in what is already a comparatively 

 well- clothed territory. 



In the first place, along the drives, wherever there is 

 not ample shade from existing forest, there is a suffi- 

 cient number of trees to temper the rays of the sun, not 

 necessarily regularly planted, or planted alone, without 

 the association of shrubs, but brought in as a shelter 

 about every forty or fifty feet. They consist, chiefly, of 

 American ashes, tulip trees, American lindens, pin oaks, 

 chestnut oaks, wild cherries, and one or two kinds of 

 maples, and the Oriental plane tree. On the rugged 

 reservations not fitted for residential purposes, shrubs 

 like the lonicera fragrantissima, spiraea opulifolia, for- 

 sythia fortunii and suspensa, itea virginica, symphoricar- 

 pus glomerata, philadelphus, red-twigged dogwood, 

 ligustrum sinensis, one or two Japan elseagnus, and a 

 Japan barberry. These are not all that have been used, 

 but they are the most important, because they will associ- 

 ate themselves well with the vegetation of the region. 



The crowning improvement of these plantations, how- 

 ever, will be found in the vines and creepers that appear 

 everywhere along the roads, over the rocks, and down 

 the steep banks where a goat could hardly climb. The 

 peculiarity of the vine treatment of this small park is 

 that it is used along the roads, because the grass turf 

 will not thrive as well on these steep banks, or harmo- 

 nize as well with the rugged character of the scenery. 



The planting is made with such vines as honeysuckle, 

 running roses, wistaria fruteseeas, English ivy, etc., 



