A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



PLAN FOR GROUNDS OF SIX ACRES 



The accompanying plan was made for the grounds of John Markle, Esq., Jeddo, Pa. 

 As these grounds were surrounded by the various buildings of a large colliery, the first 

 consideration was to make the grounds as private as possible and shut out the unsightly 

 objects that were in view in every direction ; although I hold that privacy is always as 

 desirable on the lawn and in the garden as it is in the living-rooms of the house, and 

 secure for the family and its friends much freer and greater enjoyment than when the 

 grounds are fully exposed to the highway. In the present instance privacy was secured by 

 massed planting of shrubs and by a hemlock hedge completely surrounding the grounds. 



The landscape gardener often finds that his lawns are spoiled, in spite of his advice, 

 by being cut up for flower beds by some ambitious gardener anxious to show his skill in 

 making colored lines of coleus, alternantheras, and other tender plants. Such a contin- 

 gency is provided for in this plan by making an inclosed formal garden for bedding plants 

 in summer and Dutch bulbs in spring, and this garden in no way spoils the repose of the 

 lawns. It is inclosed by a hedge of Siberian arborvitae and massed planting of shrub- 

 bery, and must be visited to be seen. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN 



1. i, i, I, I, I. Massed planting of decidu- 22. 



ous and evergreen shrubs. 



2. Specimen shrubs. 23. 



3. English beech. 



4. White-leaved linden. 24. 



5. Nordmann's fir. 



6. Cut-Leaved Japan maple. 25, 



7. Group of Aralia Japonica. 26, 



8. Scarlet maple. 27, 



9. Eulalia gracillima and yuccas. 



10. Group of small deciduous trees. 28. 



11. Nordmann's fir and Colorado blue 



spruce. 29. 



12. Specimen shrubs, evergreens, and Chinese 30. 



magnolias. 31, 



13. Deciduous trees and evergreens. 32. 



14. Group of Chinese and Japanese mag- 33. 



nolias. 34. 



15. Scarlet oak. 



16. Scarlet oak, weeping cypress, and weep- 35. 



ing Norway spruce. 36. 



17. Sugar maple. 37. 



18. Tulip tree. 38, 



19. Fern-leaved beech. 40. 



20. 20. Pin oaks. 41. 



21. Evergreens and white birch. 42. 



Evergreens, rhododendrons, and Kalmia 



latifolia. 

 Formal garden for bedding plants and 



spring-flowering bulbs. 

 American beech, liquidambar, and tulip 



tree. 



Scarlet maple. 



Group of Japanese crab apples. 

 Wier's maple, pin oak, English beech, 



black walnut, and white oak. 

 Tulip tree, Magnolia macrophylla and 



scarlet maple. 

 Group of deciduous trees. 

 Mass of wild crab apples. 

 American elm. 



White, scarlet, and pin oaks. 

 Summer house. 

 Rockery on both sides of path leading 



into woods. 

 Group of evergreens. 

 Lombardy poplars. 

 Border of annuals. 

 39. Border for hardy perennials. 

 Border of hybrid perpetual roses. 

 Bed olAr undo Donax and Eulalia gracillima. 

 Lilacs, assorted. 



