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circle (I) I would advise you to fill with a dense cop- 

 pice of hemlock spruce to break the wind from the 

 north. Along the border marked (k) you can either 

 plant apple trees, and at fifteen feet of distance, a 

 thicker line of dwarf pears (being careful to trench or 

 subsoil the ground), or you can stock it with a pro- 

 tecting belt of evergreens. In either case, give 

 thorough cultivation, if you wish the best results. 



At (a) is the " brand-new " house remodelled in 

 such fashion that you have a southern porch, a 

 kitchen in the rear, and a bay-window in your dining- 

 room, which commands (by the dotted line) the same 

 view which now wastes its charm upon the stout 

 woman at your wash-tub. 



It is possible that my friend Lackland may report 

 progress to me some time in the course of the sum- 

 mer. 



trees forming the screen, and the other the interposition of a wall. 

 The last is expensive and the former liable to be neglected. An 

 open ditch, some two feet deep by eighteen inches wide, I have seen 

 most effectively employed for the end proposed, by a very successful 

 southern horticulturist, who succeeded, year after year, in securing 

 a magnificent bloom of some ten or twelve varieties of Azaleas, 

 within twenty feet of gigantic cypresses and magnolias. The ditch 

 may also serve as a convenient receptacle for leaves and the rakinga 

 of the borders. 



