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breadth of top. In selecting some deciduous miniature trees for 
these places we would choose those that have low, parasol forms, 
and clean, tree-like, but very short stems. The common orange 
quince tree, if planted in a deep moist soil, grown thriftily, and 
treated with the saine attention that we would bestow on a valuable 
exotic., is one of the most beautiful of very low spreading-topped 
shrubby trees, and well adapted to the places under consideration. 
The kilmarnock willow, though it has neither the beauty of blossom, 
leaf, or fruit, that distinguish a well-grown quince tree, is certainly 
a sort of model of formal grace and symmetry, and might be used 
on one side and balanced on the other with a low-grown ever- 
flowering weeping cherry, Cerasus semperjloreus. Or luxuriantly 
grown single bushes of the common fragrant syringa, tartarian 
bush honeysuckle, rose weigela, or lilac rotlwiagensis, will be ap- 
propriate for the same place. 
The plan in general is too simple to require explanation, and 
is introduced to call attention to the superior beauty of simplicity, 
compared with complexity of planting, on small places. 
Plate IV, A and B. 
Designs for a LawJi on a Lot of fifty feet front with considerable 
depth. 
This design has already been alluded to in Chapter XI, on 
Arrangement in Planting, in illustrating the application of Rule I 
to small places. The lot has a front of fifty feet, and an in- 
definite extension in the rear. The plan is designed to show 
the pretty space of lawn that can be kept on a quite small lot, 
provided the latter has depth enough, by placing the house well 
back. The lot is supposed to be between side properties which 
it is impracticable to connect with, and therefore isolated by 
close fences and border shrubbery from them. The distance from 
the street to the bay-windows is eighty feet. The compact house 
plan is adapted to the position by having its entrance on the side, 
so that the best window-views possible under the circumstances 
