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we have here first introduced a hedge on the street line. The gate- 

 way should be rather larger than is common on foot-walks, and 

 covered with a carefully grown hemlock arch. The hedge may be 

 of hemlock or of Siberian arbor-vitae, and not more than six feet 

 in height. At a, a, it is designed to be hollowed by a concave cut 

 on the sides and top, so that the latter will not be more than three 

 and a half feet high in the middle. With this arrangement there 

 will be three glimpses into the place from the street ; one under 

 the gateway arch, and the others over the concave cuts in the 

 hedge. The buttresses on the inside are intended to give variety 

 in the line, and in the lights and shadows of the hedge. They are 

 easily made with the hedge by placing two or three hedge-plants 

 at right angles with the line of the hedge at the points where 

 wanted. 



We have called attention in another place to a peculiarity of 

 the arrangement of shrubs and trees on this place. There are three 

 long lines of view, each of pre-eminent interest from the different 

 points where each is likely to be most observed. First the walk- 

 view, as seen from the gateway looking towards the house, or from 

 the terrace steps looking towards the gateway ; the second and 

 third, on the lines between the bay-windows and the scollops in the 

 front hedge, ranging the whole distance over an unbroken lawn 

 elegantly margined on both sides with flowers, shrubs, and trees. 

 If the reader will raise this plate nearly level with the eye, and 

 glance along the lines indicated, he will appreciate better than we 

 can explain what we have endeavored to accomplish in this plan. 

 It is desirable, in order to achieve the best result of this arrange- 

 ment, that the character of the foliage on the two sides of the lot 

 should be so different as to give a distinct effect to the views out 

 of the two bay-windows. In addition to these three prominent 

 lines of view, charming long narrow vistas may be made to give 

 interest to the seats at the ends of the walks. 



One selection of trees and shrubs for the most prominent places 

 on this plan may be the following : 



Group I, on the left : at a, the weeping juniper {pMonga 

 penduld) ; at i>, the erect yew ( Taxus erectd) ; at c, the golden 

 yew (Taxus aured) ; at </, the weeping Indian juniper (y. 



