TWO COUNTRY-PLACES 



the other country-place in Pennsylvania and as 

 should be the case in all country-places, the ever- 

 green trees are massed together in a territory 

 by themselves, diversified only now and then by 

 an outlying birch or other graceful deciduous 

 tree. A group of the fine blue spruce of the seed- 

 ling type, finer in color and shape than the deep 

 blue of the grafted form, stands by itself in the 

 middle of the lawn next to the street on a steep 

 slope. Nearer the house are the beautiful blue 

 concolor spruces with an English yew and a 

 Lawson cypress not far away. 



The mass of the evergreen plantation is made 

 up of the Douglas spruce, Colorado blue spruce, 

 hemlock, noble silver fir, and nearer the house 

 the finer forms of the Indian cypress and pinsapo 

 fir with a mingling of Retinospora obtusa and the 

 green form of our northern red cedar. Near the 

 garage are Douglas spruces, junipers, and ret- 

 inosporas. In front of the house on the turn are 

 more junipers and yews and near by are the laurel 

 groves. These evergreens are located so as to shut 

 out regions and buildings which need screening 

 and to give a warm, solid background to the home 

 territory throughout the year. 



In front of the house alongside the road and 

 walk are masses of deciduous trees and shrubs 

 so disposed as to open unexpected vistas and 

 shade the place. The trees are the ordinary ones 

 of the North, elms, lindens, plane-trees, and the 

 quaint and hardy gingko or maiden-hair tree. 

 Adjoining the house in beds around the bay- 



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