68 A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS 



PLAN FOR LARGE CITY PLACE, continued 



6. Oriental spruce. Ii. Balsam fir. 



7. Rollison's arborvitaes, or golden retinis- 12. Norway spruce. 



poras. 13. Colorado blue spruce. 



8. Nordmann's fir. 14. Purple beech. 



9. Scarlet maple. 15. Irish juniper and beds of herbaceous plants. 

 10. Andromeda arborea. 16. Vine-covered summer house. 



PLAN FOR GROUNDS OF TfFENTY ACRES 



The accompanying plan is that of the grounds of Mr. Henry S. Turner, at Elash, 111. 

 These grounds are beautifully situated on a bluff five hundred feet above the Mississippi 

 river, and about thirty miles from St. Louis. The grounds are comparatively level except 

 for a steep declivity on the southern boundary, commencing on a line a few feet south of 

 the house, and a valley commencing at path «, and extending beyond the northwestern 

 boundary of the grounds. This valley is wooded north of the carriage drive which crosses it 

 from b to c. The grounds slope gently to this valley from path d, and from the road 

 from e to /. 



The steep declivity referred to above extends about three hundred feet south of the 

 house to a sheer bluff above the river. The house is located to get the full benefit of the 

 magnificent river and prairie view, which is only limited by the power of the eye. The 

 pond was a natural one, the outlines of which have been changed. This pond was retained 

 to provide a place to grow aquatics and bog plants. 



The grounds are very elaborately planted with a large variety of trees, shrubs and her- 

 baceous plants, and promise to become one of the most interesting and beautiful country 

 places in the west. In addition to the ground shown by the plan, Mr. Turner owns 

 several hundred acres adjoining, which is devoted to a stock-farm. 



EXPLANATION OF PLAN 



1. I, I. Woods. 10. Path from house to farm, with flower 



2. Steep declivity, planted principally with border on both sides, planted with 



evergreens, but some open spaces left, hybrid perpetual roses, herbaceous 



in which wild roses and other native plants, spring-flowering bulbs, sum- 



plants are naturalized. mer-blooming bulbs, and annuals. 



3. 3. 3. 3> 3> 3> 3- Trees and shrubs. 11. Summer house. 

 3a, 3a. Shrubs. 12. Pump-house. 



4. Trees, principally deciduous, but with a 13. Ice-house. 



few groups of evergreens. 14. OfBce. 



5,5. Rhododendrons and coniferous ever- 15. Greenhouse. 



greens. 16. Lodge. 



6. Large evergreens. 17. Pond for aquatics, with groups of shrubs 



7. Hemlock spruce. and trees planted around it. 



8. White birch and hemlock spruce. 18. California privet hedge. 



9. Bed of Annido T>onax and Eulalia gra- 19. Lombardy poplars. 



cillima. 20. Grape-arbor. 



