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A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



PLAN FOR LARGE CITY PLACE, continued 



6. Oriental spruce. ii- Balsam fir. 



7. Rollison's arborvitaes, or golden retinis- 12. Norway spruce. 



poras. 



8. Nordmann's fir. 



9. Scarlet maple. 



10. Andromeda arborea. 



13. Colorado blue spruce. 



14.. Purple beech. 



15. Irish juniper and beds of herbaceous plants. 



16. Vine-covered summer house. 



PLAN FOR GROUNDS OF TWENTY ACRES 



The accompanying plan is that of the grounds of Mr. Henry S. Turner, at Elash, 111. 

 These grounds are beautifully situated on a bluff five hundred feet above the Mississippi 

 river, and about thirty miles from St. Louis. The grounds are comparatively level except 

 for a steep declivity on the southern boundary, commencing on a line a few feet south of 

 the house, and a valley commencing at path a, and extending beyond the northwestern 

 boundary of the grounds. This valley is wooded north of the carriage drive which crosses it 

 from b to c. The grounds slope gently to this valley from path d, and from the road 

 from e to /. 



The steep declivity referred to above extends about three hundred feet south of the 

 house to a sheer bluff above the river. The house is located to get the full benefit of the 

 magnificent river and prairie view, which is only limited by the power of the eye. The 

 pond was a natural one, the outlines of which have been changed. This pond was retained 

 to provide a place to grow aquatics and bog plants. 



The grounds are very elaborately planted with a large variety of trees, shrubs and her- 

 baceous plants, and promise to become one of the most interesting and beautiful country 

 places in the west. In addition to the ground shown by the plan, Mr. Turner owns 

 several hundred acres adjoining, which is devoted to a stock-farm. 



EXPLANATION 



1, i, i. Woods. 10 



2. Steep declivity, planted principally with 



evergreens, but some open spaces left, 



in which wild roses and other native 



plants are naturalized. 



3 3. 3> 3 3 3 3- Trees and shrubs. u 



30, 30. Shrubs. 12 



4. Trees, principally deciduous, but with a 13 



few groups of evergreens. 14 



5,5. Rhododendrons and coniferous ever- 15 



greens. 16 



6. Large evergreens. 17 



7. Hemlock spruce. 



8. White birch and hemlock spruce. 18 



9. Bed of Arundo T)onax and Eulalia gra- 19 



cillima. 20 



OF PLAN 



, Path from house to farm, with flower 

 border on both sides, planted with 

 hybrid perpetual roses, herbaceous 

 plants, spring-flowering bulbs, sum- 

 mer-blooming bulbs, and annuals. 



. Summer house. 



. Pump-house. 



. Ice-house. 



. Office. 



. Greenhouse. 



, Lodge. 



, Pond for aquatics, with groups of shrubs 

 and trees planted around it. 



, California privet hedge. 



, Lombardy poplars. 



, Grape-arbor. 



