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A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



JN IDEAL SUBURBAN ACRE, continued 



20. Cut-leaved birch. 



21. Fern-leaved beech. 



22. Japan maples. 



23. Funkia Sieboldiana. 



24. Eulalia graciUima. 



25. Weigela Candida. 



26. Evergreens, small trees and shrubs. 



27. Maples, pin oaks or tulip trees. 



In addition to planting shown on plan, 

 Japanese honeysuckles, Clematis paniculata, 

 and Clematis Henryi are to be trained on the 

 porch, and a Chinese wistaria is to be car- 

 ried up the east end of the house, trained 

 along the eaves. 



TfFO SMALL PLACES TREATED AS ONE 



It is now quite common in suburban neighborhoods to do away with all fences and 

 make one continuous lawn in front of the houses of an entire block. I am opposed to this, 

 except for small lots of less than one hundred feet frontage. The inclosure need not be a 

 fence or a wall ; much better effect can be obtained by a hedge. The continuous lawn plan 

 does not permit grounds to have individual character or privacy, and I think privacy is as 

 desirable on a lawn as it is in the living-rooms of the house. Sometimes, however, the 

 grounds of two or three small places may be combined and treated as one place, and fine 

 landscape effects obtained which would not be possible with the separate places. The 

 accompanying plan, made for Mr. W. J. Buttfield, of Plainfield, N. J., illustrates this very well. 



EXPLANATION 



1. Edge of woods back of grounds. 15 



2. 33. Rows of old Norway spruce, twenty 16 



feet high, which were allowed to re- 17 

 main, as they protected the grounds 18 

 on the north and west, but the regu- 19 

 larity of their outline was broken by 20 

 additional planting. 



3. Purple beech. 



4. Border of hybrid perpetual roses, herba- 



ceous plants and spring-flowering bulbs. 



5. Group of Japanese maples, retinisporas, 



and specimen shrubs, ground carpeted 

 with Hall's and golden honeysuckles. 



6. Magnolia conspicua. 



7. Sciadopitys verticillata. 



8. Magnolia parviflora. 



9. Shrubs. 



10. Abies concolor. 



1 1. Nordmann's fir. 



12. Colorado blue spruce. 



13. European beech. 



14. Massed planting of shrubs, evergreen 



and deciduous. 



OF PLAN 

 . Cut-leaved birch. 

 . Paulownia imperialis. 

 . Abies concolor. 

 . Mugho pine. 

 . Nordmann's fir. 



. Massed planting of deciduous and ever- 

 green shrubbery. 

 . Fern-leaved beech. 

 . Magnolia Lennei. 

 . Japanese snowball. 

 . Specimen rhododendron. 

 . Picea alba carulea. 

 . White-leaved weeping linden. 

 . Magnolia stellata. 

 . Cedrus Atlantica glauca. 

 . Weeping hemlock. 

 . Specimen rhododendron. 

 . Magnolia Soulangeana. 

 . Group of white birch. 

 . Philadelphus and Weigela Candida. 

 . Pin oak. 

 . Tulip tree. 



