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FLAJ^S OF RESIDENCES 
chestnuts, maples, and elms are usually the most beautiful rivals 
for such places. Of horse-chestnuts we would recommend the 
common white for one side, and for the other side the double 
white flowering, which blooms several weeks later than the 
common sorts, and forms a taller tree in proportion to its 
breadth. The red-flowering horse-chestnuts are lower and 
rounder-headed trees, of slower growth, and would not pair so 
well with either of the sorts named, but would be very ap- 
propriate if used on both sides. Of a totally different character 
from any of these named, is the cut-leaved weeping birch, of 
rapid growth, elegant at all seasons, and also adapted to these 
positions. 
Opposite^, ten feet from the fence, is a Norway spruce, or, if 
the location and latitude are not too cold for it, the Nordmanns fir, 
Ficea nordmaniana, which, in rich soils, has foliage of unusual 
beauty. Back of it towards the fence, fill in with hemlocks, arbor- 
vites, and yews, which grow to the ground and make an impene- 
trable mass of evergreen foliage. The side gateway is intended to 
be covered with a hemlock-arch of some of the forms suggested in 
Chapter XIV, which should connect with a continuous hedge, 
broken at by one or two pines, and varied from the pines to 
the carriage-way gate with a belt of many kinds of shrubs. At r, 
five feet from the fence, plant the Kolreitteria paniculata^ and at 
near the fence, a bed of low-growing spireas. The group between 
2 and 4 may be composed of bush honeysuckles or of shrubby ever- 
greens. The small shrub nearly over 2 may be an Abies gregoriana^ 
or a golden yew. The group in the left-hand corner may be com- 
posed of good old shrubs like lilacs, the purple berberry, weigelas, 
deutzias, and the purple-leaved filbert ; and for the two trees we 
would suggest the common catalpa for the place ten feet from the 
fence, and the Magnolia machrophylla for the one nearer the house. 
On the left, on the line of the middle of the front veranda, and 
twenty feet from the left side of the lot, a single specimen of the 
Bhotan pine, P. excelsa, or the two weeping firs, Abies inverta and 
Ficea pectinata pendula; just behind them some of the yews of the 
podocarpus or cephalotaxus tribe ; back of these, along the fence, a 
dense mass of hemlocks, with now and then some light-colored or 
