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the parlor and dining-room windows will exhibit a generous expan- 

 sion of lawn which it is desirable to secure ; and it will probably 

 include in the view from them some embellishments which this 

 place has not. If, however, there is anything unsightly in the 

 neighbor lot, or any unfriendly disposition on the part of its 

 owner that induces him to ignore the advantage of mutual views 

 over each other's' lawns, and to fence or plant to prevent it, that 

 side may then be filled with masses of shrubbery in a manner 

 similar to that shown on the left of Plate IV. 



The group G, at the left, may be planted from the street to the 

 pine with the strong growing old shrubs; — lilacs, weigelas, honey- 

 suckles, syringas, deutzias, etc., etc. Under, or rather near, the 

 white or Austrian pine (the former pine if the soil is sandy, the 

 latter if it is clayey), plant almost any of the yews, the Sargent 

 hemlock, the Hypericum kalmianum and H. prolificum, the tree- 

 box variety angustifolia, and the variegated-leaved elder, all of 

 which flourish in the shade of other trees. At the upper extreme 

 •of the group plant the pendulous Norway spruce, Abies excelsa 

 inverta ; eight feet behind it the common Norway spruce, and 

 between this and the pine the Chinese C3rpress, Glypto-strobus 

 sinensis pendula, and some of the evergreen shrubs just named. 



The belt of hemlocks against the fence, opposite the dining- 

 room bay-window, is to be terminated at the front by a slender 

 "weeping silver-fir, Picea pectinata pendula. The trees at the two 

 corners of the dining-room bay are intended for Irish junipers, 

 ■or the weeping juniper, y. oblonga pendula. Other trees and shrubs 

 are designated on the plan, and need no explanation. 



There are many small flower-beds on the plan, and one quite 

 large rose-bed in the middle of the front at F.' The latter is to 

 have an elegant rose-pillar, or a substantial trellis in the centre, 

 with groups of roses of varieties graded to diminish in size to the 

 points. Or, if preferred, this may be a group of evergreens with 

 the slender weeping silver-fir for a centre, and lower trees and 

 dwarfs around it, so as to form the same figure of a cross. This 

 will, in time, be more beautiful throughout the greater part of the 

 year than the rose-bed, but the latter can be made far more 

 brilliant in summer. Yet the rude, briary appearance of rose- 



