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with grape-vines or other small fruits, or with a continuous belt 

 of common deciduous shrubs. Against the foundation-walls of the 

 house we would plant a continuous line of varieties of the English 

 ivy, even if they creep permanently no higher than the water-table. 

 Up to that height they often make a shrubby mass of evergreen 

 foliage, and form a pleasing back-ground for the finer shrubs that 

 may be grown near the house in front of them. For a running 

 vine on brick and stone walls, and for draping windows and cor- 

 nices with foliage, the American ivy or Virginia creeper is greatly 

 superior in this country to the English ivy. We can go no further 

 in designating the shrubs to plant near the house-walls than to 

 merely reiterate that they should be of those flowering and fragrant 

 varieties which are usually full-foliaged, not apt to get bare of leaves 

 at the bottom, and which do not exceed six feet in height ; in short, 

 low, compact, or spreading shrubs. 



The fruit-tree features of this place are sufficiently designated 

 by the symbols. 



There being a cold grape-house indicated, it is natural to sup- 

 pose that flowers and bulbs may be forced in it, and that the 

 care of these, together with grounds embellished with so many 

 flowers, will involve the employment of a gardener; to whom, 

 or to the lady of the house, we leave the selection of the flowers 

 to be used in filling the beds on the margin of the circle, and 

 the vase or basket in its centre. 



Plate XXI. 



A Flan for a Deep Front Yard, on an In-Lot one hundred feet wide, 

 with the House on a terrace plateau; designed to harmonize 

 architectural and gardenesque forms. 



This plan is a peculiar study in many respects. All the deco- 

 rative portion of the grounds is in front of the house, and the 

 depth from the street to the house-front is even greater in propor- 

 tion to the width of the lot than in the preceding plan. The 

 arrangement at the street-front is also more simple and more 



