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A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



PLAN FOR A FII-'E-ACRE PLACE, continued 



21. Fruit along inside paths of vegetable 



garden — grapes, dwarf pears, dwarf 

 apples, etc. 



22. Saplings eight inches in diameter with 



branches cut back to five or six feet. 

 These posts can be covered with wis- 

 taria and similar vines. 



23. Summer house or pavilion. 



24. Shrubbery. • ' , 



25. Chinese cypress. 



26. Rhododendrons. 



27. Purple beech. 



Vegetable garden to be inclosed with a 

 hemlock hedge, which is also to be planted 

 along the west side leading from the street 

 to house and stable. 



A SUBURBAN LOT 



The accompanying plan, made for Mr. J. E. Porter, of Sewickley, Pa., shows an uncon- 

 ventional treatment of a corner lot that few people would have the courage to carry out. 

 Yet it has many attractions and advantages for the owners and their friends. The objection 

 is likely to be urged that the public cannot see the garden from the street ; but neither is 

 the interior of the house to be seen from the highway, and privacy in the garden is certainly 

 as desirable as it is in the library or dining-room, and all the public that the owner is 

 interested in will be invited to enjoy his garden as well as the hospitality of his house. 

 The plea that it is selfish to exclude the public from one's grounds is not reasonable. I 

 never knew of anybody being kept out of a garden who cared enough about it to ask to 

 see it, and the charm and beauty of a garden is greatly enhanced by shutting out of 

 view the dirt and ugliness of the street. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN 



9' 

 10. 

 II. 



12. 

 13- 

 14- 

 15, 



Masses of shrubs, evergreen and decidu- 

 ous small trees, with a few groups of 

 bold herbaceous plants. 



Crab apple. 



Hardy perennials. 



Magnolia conspicua. 



Japanese maples. 



Rhododendrons, with Lilium auratum 

 planted among them. 



Japanese snowball. 



Paulownia imperialis, to be cut to the 

 ground every spring. 



Pin oak. 



Pyrus To rill go. 



Rhododendron Everestiaiium. 



Lonicera bella. 



Group of Aralia Japonica. 



Old spreading Seckle pear. 



16. Tulip tree. 



17. White birch. 



18. Low-spreading old Apple tree. 



19. White birch. 



20. Scarlet oak. 



21. 22, 23, 24. Cedar or locust saplings, to be 



covered with vines, for clothes-line posts. 



25. Arched entrance, to be covered with Rosa 



Wichuraiana. 



26. Border of hybrid perpetual roses. 



27. Scarlet maple. 



28. California privet hedge. 



29. Pin oaks, planted forty feet apart be- 



tween curb and sidewalk. 

 In addition to planting shown on plan, the 

 following vines are to be planted to shade 

 porch: Hall's honeysuckles, Crimson Ram- 

 bler roses, Chinese wistaria and Clematis 

 paniculala. Ampelopsis Roylei is to be planted 

 to cover brick walls of house. 



