146 PLANS OF RESIDENCES 



Happily such modes of planting are becoming rarer, but they 

 are still quite too common. 



Now we do not mean to convey the idea that this little piece of 

 ground might be made into a little park by judicious planting, or 

 that all of what has been crowded into it might have been put in 

 differently without crowding it. It is a small lot on which it is not 

 possible to have a great variety of trees and shrubs without clutter- 

 ing it, and losing all appearance of a lawn. Our plan on the left 

 of the same plate is not designed to show the most artistic way of 

 treating this small yard, but to show the most simple way of not 

 overdoing by »z2>-planting. The fruit trees are introduced in about 

 the same places as in the other plan, but in front of them no over- 

 shadowing trees are planted. At the sides, other yards are sup- 

 posed to connect with this lot, and openings are left in the border' 

 shrubbery to avail of whatever pleasant lookouts may thus be 

 obtained. All the middle portion of the yard is unbroken by 

 shrubbery, which is arranged in groups near the corners, and 

 E^round the house. The entrance gateway should be embellished 

 with a verdant arch of hemlock ; the front corners of the lot may 

 be marked by carefully- grown specimens of arbor-vitaes or slender 

 junipers ; the small trees standing alone, about seven feet from the 

 front, should be choice specimens, either evergreen or deciduous, 

 similar in form, and as dissimilar as possible in color and foliage. 

 Among evergreens we would name for these places the two weep- 

 ing firs — Abies inverta pendula and Picea pedinata pendula — as the 

 most appropriate of all ; or, for one side the yew Taxus strida or 

 ereda, and on the other the yew Taxas aurea; or the weeping 

 arbor-vitae for. one side, and the weeping juniper for the other ; or 

 with dwarfs, of the dwarf pine P. strobus compada on one side, and 

 the mugho pine on the other. With deciduous arboreous shrubs 

 or small trees, the variety to choose from is very great. We will 

 suggest for one side the vyeeping Japan sophora, grafted not more 

 than seven feet high, and for the other the double scarlet haw- 

 thorn, C. coccinnea Jlore plena, cut to resemble the sophora in out- 

 line ; or for one side the Indian catalpa (see Fig. 129), andfor the 

 other a sassafras or a white dogwood, Cornus flprida, kept clipped 

 down at the top so that it shall not exceed eight feet in height or 



