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TASTE AND TACT IN ARRANGING ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. 



Other trees for the vicinity of the windmill might be the 

 American elm, common horse-chestnut, the European 

 white birch and the tooth-leaved weeping poplar. The 

 small clump of shrubs directly in the rear of the wind- 

 mill might consist of the flowering currants in assort- 

 ment. 



The two large clumps of shrubbery on each side of the 

 walk between plats E and F, where 

 it joins the front drive, might be 

 planted, the one to the east with red- 

 twigged dogwood, tamarisk, I'cbur- 

 num rug-OS urn, golden elder, caly- 

 canthus, Josika's lilac, cut-leaved 

 elder and waxberries ; the one oppo- 

 site with ailantus, Pauloiunia im- 

 pcrialis, golden catalpa, bladder- 

 senna, aralias (including the Japa- 

 nese), purple-leaved filberts, etc. 

 The large mass near the barn in plat 

 F might be appropriately planted 

 with strong-growing trees and shrubs, 

 in order to screen the stable from 

 the residence. For this place we 

 would include the Carolina poplar, 

 golden poplar, golden catalpa, pur- 

 ple-leaved birch, ash-leaved spiraea, 

 royal willow and Venetian sumach. 

 A group at the windmill crossing 

 might consist of oleasters, white 

 fringe and clethras. 



The various groups in plats H and 

 I, directly back of the house, we 

 would plant with spiraeas in large 

 variety, mock-orange, Japan qui 

 ornamental elders, etc., devoting a 

 mass to each kind of shrub. A few 

 elms or other forest trees might also 

 be located in this division. 



The group between the house and 

 the greenhouse plant with oleasters, 

 mock-oranges, Japan maples and 

 hardy azaleas ; the beds in the vicin- 

 ity of the greenhouse with hardy 

 perennials, including a large mass of 

 peonies and tender summer flowers. 

 Flowering vines in variety can be 

 planted about the front and side 

 veranda-pillars. If the reader sug- 

 gests that shrubbery has been used 

 too freely for the front yard, we an- 

 swer that this was done keeping in 

 mind the fact that the rear of the 

 place is thickly occupied with giant 

 forest trees, needing the contrast so provided. 



We Americans are fortunate in having so many hand- 

 some hardy native trees and shrubs for ornamental 

 planting about our homes and public parks. Our forests 

 are all great nurseries, from which we may select the 

 finest stock to be found anywhere in the world, with no 



fear of its proving inadaptable to our climate, or of the 

 nurseryman's harrowing bill. Nay, more ; if we will but 

 have eyes to see, the great mother-gardener everywhere 

 gives us lessons in practical planting. She shows us what 

 soils and situations her beautiful nurslings like best ; she 

 groups them, scatters them, grows them as specimens 

 here and there ; shows us a multitude of fairy-like effects 



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in the light, mingled foliage of flower-fringed borders ; or 

 awes us with the sombre grandeur of her wide-spread 

 masses of giant forest trees. We catch our finest bits of 

 inspiration in landscape art from the open plan-book of 

 forests and meadows, and the more closely we study them 

 the wider and nobler will be the sweep of horticulture. 



