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variegated-leaved small plants or shrubs on the border in front of 
them. The group beyond, projecting towards the house, is sup- 
posed to be composed of a variety of the best arbor-vitass broken 
in color by some of the dark yews, — the little out-lying member of 
the group to be the Irish juniper. 
It is impracticable to trace through all the details. The reader 
must observe that the very small shrubs which are indicated 
in isolated positions on the lawn are intended for very com- 
pact evergreen or other shrubs, which take up but little room and 
are pleasing objects at all seasons of the year. At the four outer 
corners of the two bays may be planted, in pairs, specimens of the 
Irish and Swedish junipers, or some of the slender yews. At the 
corner of the open space in front of the carriage-house is a horse- 
block, to be shaded by a white pine. Nearly in front of the side 
entrance to the house is a rosary, for which may be substituted 
with good effect a Bhotan pine, with a cut-leaved weeping birch 
close behind it, if the proprietor does not wish to make and keep 
up the rose-bed with the expense and care which it annually re- 
quires. If the birch just named has been selected for the tree 
near the corners of the front veranda, it need not be repeated. 
These grounds, with no other plantings than are indicated, 
would doubtless look bare for some years. The places which the 
trees and shrubs are ultimately to cover, must be filled, in the in- 
tervening time, with annuals and bedding-plants which will make 
the best substitutes for them. We would decidedly advise not to 
plant trees or large shrubs any nearer together than they ought to 
be when full grown, on the tempting plea that when they crowd 
each other some of them may be removed. Nine persons out of 
ten will not have the nerve to remove the surplusage so soon as it 
ought to be done, and when they do see the unsightly result of a 
crowded plantation, there will be one good excuse for not doing it, 
viz. : that trees which have grown up together have mis-shaped 
each other, so that when one is cut away those that remain show 
one-sided, and naked in parts. It is better to have patience while 
little trees slowly rise to the size we would have them ; and, while 
watching and waiting on them, let the ground they are eventually 
to cover be made bright with ephemeral flowers and shrubs. When 
