136 PLANS OF RESIDENCES 



growth of Other trees. It will be seen that the borders of the lot 

 offer ample room for the growth of small fruits for one family. 

 Strawberries may be grown in cultivated strips under the standard 

 pear trees. 



From the dining-room window which opens upon the veranda, 

 pleasing vistas down the grape-walks and the pear-walks will be 

 seen through the vine-covered parts of the veranda, and the arches 

 that mark the entrances to those walks. The height of the 

 veranda floor will conceal one-third of the gravel space in front 

 of the carriage-house from the eye of a person sitting in the 

 dining-room, so that the vines that should wreath the end-open- 

 ing of the veranda and the arches beyond, and their interior 

 perspective, will be the principal objects in view. Between the 

 row of dwarf pears and the side-street the arrangement of fruit 

 trees is such that, seen from the front, the open lawn space 

 surrounded by them will have quite as elegant an air as any 

 other portion of the ground. The large fir tree at the end of the 

 row of pear trees, and the arbor-vitae hedge between it and the 

 arch, are intended to shut from view the tilled ground under the 

 pear trees, and, together with the large pine tree nearer the house 

 and its subjacent evergreen shrubs, to give a cheerful winter tone 

 to this most used portion of the " back-yard." 



On the front portion of the lot, the trees indicated by letters 

 on the plan are intended to be the following — the list being made 

 for a climate like that near the city of New York. 



At ^, the dwarf white-pine, T'. strobus compacta ; at <?, e, a pair 

 of Japan weeping sophoras ; at / Parson's American arbor-vitae, 

 Thuja occidentalis compacta ; at g, g, the American and European 

 Judas trees ; at h, the Kolreuteria paniculata ; at i, the golden 

 arbor-vitae ; at /, the Indian catalpa ; at k, the erect yew, Taxus 

 erecta ; at /, the golden yew, Taxus aurea ; at m and «, IVeigelas 

 amabilis and rosea; at o, the new weeping juniper, J. ollonga 

 pendula ; p and g, the weeping silver-fir and the weeping Norway 

 spruce ; r, r,y, and z, z,. an irregular belt of Siberian and other 

 arbor-vitEEs ; s, s, weeping arbor-vitaes, TAuJa pendula ; at /, Sar- 

 gent's hemlock ; at u, a cherry tree (this in lieu of the cherr)- tree 

 near the carriage-road gate, where, if the soil is congenial, we 



