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to plant columbines on its ledges, and your Tom 

 Thumb geraniums along its lower edge, in such sort 

 that in autumn they will seem like a running flame 

 of fire skirting the cliff and blending with the crimson 

 verbenas upon the circle in the centre of the garden. 

 At (f) you have a map of the garden and your work 

 place, and to make the privacy of it entire, you may 

 plant a hedge for a barrier along the line (h) or you 

 may set a trellis there and cover it with vines. At 

 (e) you have a hot-bed to provide your Easter salad, 

 and you may multiply the hot-beds if you like along 

 the border (n) which is made under shelter of a high 

 fence to the north. At (c) fou have your cheap 

 grapery built against the south-side of the barn, and 

 convenient for the transmutation you suggest ; at (b) 

 is your stable, and at (d) your poultry house with a 

 sunny stable court to the south of it. At (tri) you 

 have your paddock for the mare, or your mall for 

 base-ball, or your plow-ground for a premium crop 

 utterly free from shrubbery, and communicating with 

 barn and with street alike. The lawn explains and 

 describes itself; but I would only suggest that the 

 shrubbery marked (J) will be a capital spot, under 

 shade from south, for your Rhododendrons ; * and the 



* Various horticulturists have discussed the method of isolating 

 a border of rhododendrons from the influences of a forest screen to 

 the south one suggesting simple amputation of the roots of the 



