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LA WN GRADING. 



barberries, g barberries in assortment, 6 aralias, 12 orna- 

 mental elders, including the cut-leaved and golden sorts. 

 A little to the east of th>.- large mass of shrubbery, are 

 single specimens each of the Kilmarnock willow and 

 the beautiful weeping Russian mulberry. Near the 

 drive here is a mass of shrubbery comprising 12 assorted 

 bush-honeysuckles, 6 plants of double Spiraa pruni- 

 foliu. and 6 Daphnu iMezereum. To the north of this 

 mass is a clump of Huntington and other elms. 



Northward from the large shrub mass there is shown, 

 toward the center of the lawn plat, i maiden-hair 

 tree, and to the left several birches and elms in assorted 

 kinds. Toward the corner opening in the hedge are sev- 

 eral white pines and one mugho dwarf pine, with an 

 American elm at a point in the direction of the house. 

 Against the curve in the hedge is a mass of hardy shrubs, 

 containing 12 dogwoods (elegantissima and the red-twigged 

 species), 12 snow and wax-berries, and 9 tamarisks of sev- 

 eral kinds. Directly out from the last mass, and near 

 the drive, is a group of iS assorted deutzias, D. gracilis 

 being planted near the edge. 



Turning now across the driveway, there is a large 

 clump devoted entirely to spiraeas. North of the spiraea 

 bed are several cut-leaved weeping white birches. South- 

 east of the same bed is a specimen or two each of Colo- 

 rado blue spruce and Nordmann's silver fir. South from 

 the bed are two crab-apple trees. 



Around the arbor, beginning at the northwest, near the 



drive and going around it, are situated shrubs and trees 

 as follows; 18 assorted weigelias, 2 white fringe-trees, 

 placed centrally in a bed with 8 choice sumachs about 

 them. South from the arbor are the following trees : i 

 yellow birch, i paper-birch, 3 assorted spruces, i black 

 walnut, I cut-leaved oak, i American beech. 



Directly west and northwest from the house are, first, 

 about 8 American elms, i honey-locust, i Camperdown 

 weeping elm, and back of these, to form a screen which 

 extends toward the stable (B), the following evergreens, 

 beginning to name them from the west ; 18 white pines, 

 18 Austrian pines, 18 Scotch pines, 3 dwarf pines, 12 red 

 cedars, 12 Irish junipers, 12 Swedish junipers, and, near 

 the barn, 6 Austrian pines in a mass by themselves. In 

 the plat northeast from the house are 2 American elms 

 and a clump consisting of 12 Mahonia aquifolia. 



Crossing the drive to the plat eastward from here (13 

 and 14), and entering from the southwest, groups of the 

 following trees are supposed to be planted : 12 globe pyr- 

 amidal arbor-vitaes, g Siberian arbor-vitses, g American 

 arbor-vitass, 3 conical spruces, 18 white spruces and 12 

 Norway spruces, with American elms along the highway 

 at this point. 



It should be mentioned that in locating the clumps of 

 various kinds named in the large groups, the edges should 

 intermingle somewhat. All the groups indicated are to 

 have the soil above their roots cultivated for some years 

 to come. 



LAWN GRADING. 



SL'GGESTIONS ON SHAPING THE PLAT BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND THE STREET. 



"rIERE one can have his own way in 

 deciding on the relative position of 

 the house to the street-grade, he 

 should select a lot having some- 

 thing of a rise from the street back- 

 ward, a chief reason for this being 

 that an elevated house site isahvays 

 a comparatively dry one. On farms 

 or in country villages such spots are 

 easily obtainable. In larger towns and cities where streets 

 are systematically graded to 

 engineers' lines, there is usu- 

 ally little choice as to where 

 the home shall be located, the 

 rule of the street as to the dis- 

 tance of the house-line back 

 from the grade, and the nar- 

 rowness of the lot governing. 

 Under such circumstances, 

 where one chooses a lot with 

 a good elevation above the 

 street, it often becomes a puz- 

 zling question as to how the 

 lawn-grade between the house 

 and the street shall be treated 

 Where the difference between 

 house and street-levels is not 



more than three feet, with the house 30 or more feet 

 back trom the fence-line, a simple rounded slope from 

 the house to the sidewalk would be more satisfactory 

 than any other treatment. Where there is a difference 

 of ten feet between the levels named, the terrace and 



-Lawn with Terrace a.nd Sharp Slope. 



Lawn with Rounded Slopes. 



