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drive, another magnolia might be set in plat A. The 

 large group of shrubs surrounding a seat, together with 

 the two smaller beds across the walk from the seat, would 

 look well if planted with red-twigged dogwood, lilac, 

 smoke-tree, calycanthus, forsythia, wiegelias in assort- 

 ment, and European, Japan, Canadian and purple-leaved 

 barberries. Farther along on this plat, near the drive, 



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Fig. 3.— Diagram of Grounds Having a Frontage of 280 feet 



an elm tree might be set. Near the foot-path entrance 

 to the grounds several groups of shrubs are shown ; 

 these should be planted freely with silver-leaved cor- 

 chorus, Cornus clcgcmtissima variegata, and Japanese 

 viburnum ( F. plicatiim). 



For the trees scattered throughout the margin of plat 

 C, the following sorts are suggested: Camperdown weep- 



ing elm, sugar, or rock-maple, Wier's cut-leaved maple, 

 European linden and white-leaved linden, scarlet oak. 

 River's blood-leaved beech and the English elm. The 

 irregularly-shaped clump located in this plat, near to the 

 right of the carriage-drive, might be composed of dwarf- 

 growing spruce trees, viz : Gregory's dwarf spruce, the 

 conical spruce, Alcock's blue spruce, and the dwarf white 

 spruce. South of this bed, two speci- 



mens of Nordmann silver fir would 



J= look well. We think that a bed of 



eulalias located in this plat near the 

 west carriage-drive, at a point almost 

 midway between the street and the 

 junction, in front of plat E, would 

 produce quite a pleasing effect. 



Plat D is to be planted with large 

 masses of growth, using evergreens 

 freely toward the street, in order to 

 shut out the prevailing northwest 

 winds. The evergreens recom- 

 mended for this purpose are, Norway 

 spruce, white spruce, dwarf black 

 spruce (in a clump by itself away 

 from the main group), Austrian or 

 black pine, white pine, dwarf mugho 

 pine (located toward the margin of the 

 group), savin juniper, Siberian, gold- 

 en and globe - headed arbor - vitae, 

 Colorado blue spruce and Irish juni- 

 per. The large group in this plat, 

 lying nearer the barn, might be 

 planted with trees of somewhat 

 stronger habit and freer branching 

 growth, as European larch, Scotch 

 pine, oak, the double-flowered and 

 red-flowered horse-chestnut, double- 

 flowering cherry, red or slippery 

 elm, Huntington elm, and English 

 oak. Toward the margin nearest the 

 drive, some smaller-growing trees, 

 like golden oak, rosemary-leaved wil- 

 low, large-ilowering dogwood and 

 showy mespilus would be effective. 

 The mass in the junction-bend of this 

 plat should consist of free-growing 

 shrubs and trees, in the following 

 order ; Two pyramidal birches cen- 

 trally in the mass, calycanthus, priv- 

 ets, blood-leaved plums {Prumis 

 P/ssard/i), variegated-leaved cor- 

 nelian cherry, and Japan quince. 



In the bend directly opposite, in 

 plat E, we would like to see located 

 a heavy clump of Hydrangea paniculata grandijloi-a , 

 In the direction of the house from this mass are shown 

 two cut-leaved weeping birches ; in front of them, to- 

 ward the drive, is a mass of Mahonia aqiiifoUa. In 

 figure 3, the trees standing in somewhat regular order 

 between the house and windmill are plum trees, seven 

 of which are allowed to remain in the new design. 



ORCHARD 



on the Highway. 



