64 A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



AN IDEAL SUBURBAN ACRE, continued 



20. Cut-leaved birch. 27. Maples, pin oaks or tulip trees. 



21. Fern-leaved beech. In addition to planting shown on plan, 



22. Japan maples. Japanese honeysuckles, Clematis paniculata, 



23. Funkia Sieboldiana. and Clematis Henryi are to be trained on the 



24. Eulalia gracillima. porch, and a Chinese wistaria is to be car- 



25. We'igela Candida. ried up the east end of the house, trained 



26. Evergreens, small trees and shrubs. along the eaves. 



TWO SMALL PLACES TREATED AS ONE 



It is now quite common in suburban neighborhoods to do away with all fences and 

 make one continuous lawn in front of the houses of an entire block. I am opposed to this, 

 except for small lots of less than one hundred feet frontage. The inclosure need not be a 

 fence or a wall ; much better effect can be obtained by a hedge. The continuous lawn plan 

 does not permit grounds to have individual character or privacy, and I think privacy is as 

 desirable on a lawn as it is in the living-rooms of the house. Sometimes, however, the 

 grounds of two or three small places may be combined and treated as one place, and fine 

 landscape effects obtained which would not be possible with the separate places. The 

 accompanying plan, made for Mr. W. J. Buttfield, of Plainfield, N. J., illustrates this very well. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN 



1. Edge of woods back of grounds. 15. Cut-leaved birch. 



2. 33. Rows of old Norway spruce, twenty 16. Paulownia imperialis. 



feet high, which were allowed to re- 17. Abies concolor. 



main, as they protected the grounds 18. Mugho pine, 



on the north and west, but the regu- 19. Nordmann's fir. 



larity of their outline was broken by 20. Massed planting of deciduous and ever- 

 additional planting. green shrubbery. 



3. Purple beech. 21. Fern-leaved beech. 



4. Border of hybrid perpetual roses, herba- 2 2. Magnolia Lennei. 



ceous plants and spring-flowering bulbs. 23 Japanese snowball. 



5. Group of Japanese maples, retinisporas, 24 Specimen rhododendron. 



and specimen shrubs, ground carpeted ^ picea alba carulea , 



with Hall's and golden honeysuckles. ^ White . leaved weeping linden . 



6. Magnolia conspicua. ,. .. , ,, . 



27. Magnolia stellata. 



7. Sciadopitys vertiallata. 



,. .... 28. Cedrus Atlantica glauca. 



8. Magnolia parviflora. 



9. Shrubs. 29 ' Wee P m 8 hemlock " 



10. Abies concolor. 3<>. Specimen rhododendron. 



11. Nordmann's fir. 3'- Magnolia Soulangeana. 



12. Colorado blue spruce. 32- Group of white birch. 



13. European beech. 34- Philadelphus and Weigela Candida. 



14. Massed planting of shrubs, evergreen 35- Pin a k- 



and deciduous. 36. Tulip tree. 



