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breadth of top. In selecting some deciduous miniature trees for 

 these places we would choose those that have low, parasol forms, 

 and clean, tree-like, but very short stems. The common orange 

 quince tree, if planted in a deep moist soil, grown thriftily, and 

 treated with the same attention that we would bestow on a valuable 

 exotic, is one of the most beautiful of very low spreading-topped 

 shrubby trees, and well adapted to the places under consideration. 

 The kilmarnock willow, though it has neither the beauty of blossom, 

 leaf, or fruit, that distinguish a well-grown quince tree, is certainly 

 a sort of model of formal grace and symmetry, and might be used 

 on one side and balanced on the other with a low-grown ever- 

 flowering weeping cherry, Cerasus semperfloreus. Or luxuriantly 

 grown single bushes of the common fragrant syringa, tartarian 

 bush honeysuckle, rose weigela, or lilac rothmagensis, will be ap- 

 propriate for the same place. 



The plan in general is too simple to require explanation, and 

 is introduced to call attention to the superior beauty of simplicity, 

 compared with complexity of planting, on small places. 



Plate IV, A and B. 



Designs for a Lawn on a Lot of fifty feet front with considerable 



depth. 



This design has already been alluded to in Chapter XI, on 

 Arrangement in Planting, in illustrating the application of Rule I 

 to small places. The lot has a front of fifty feet, and an in- 

 definite extension in the rear. The plan is designed to show 

 the pretty space of lawn that can be kept on a quite small lot,, 

 provided the latter has depth enough, by placing the house well 

 back. The lot is supposed to be between side properties which 

 it is impracticable to connect with, and therefore isolated by 

 close fences and border shrubbery from them. The distance from 

 the street to the bay-windows is eighty feet. The compact house 

 plan is adapted to the position by having its entrance on the side, 

 so that the best window-views possible under the circumstances. 



