THE SMALL PLACE 



a pink climbing Hybrid Tea Rose has reached the 

 second story window above the rough stone which 

 forms the stair well, and Pachysandra, the lovely 

 evergreen ground cover, interplanted with Christ- 

 mas Roses, makes a charming edging in front of 

 the Box. 



The oval inside the drive turn is dominated 

 by the Beech. Ivy, Euonymus, Myrtle, and the 

 dwarf St. John's Wort, Hypericum calycinum, 

 creep in a great spreading mat around the broad 

 trunk of the tree. On one side Andromedas are 

 planted, the low Andromeda floribunda and its 

 more graceful relative Andromeda japonica. On 

 the other side of the intertwining vines are dwarf 

 Rhododendron Wilsoni which have lovely small 

 pink flowers and next to them are Azalea indica 

 alba which are crowned with heavy clusters of 

 white flowers. Just beyond, around the turn to 

 the left, two young White Pines spread their 

 horizontal branches over Yews and Andromedas, 

 Pinus mugho, and a few Barberries. In among 

 this planting, groups of Junipers raise their slender 

 columns: Juniperus virginiana, the Common Red 

 Cedar, Juniperus Kosteri, and Juniperus chinensis, 

 with nice variation in their green, gray, and sil- 

 ver foliage tones. Beyond, yet farther around the 



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