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weeping arbor-vitas. None of these will grow to greater size than 
the place requires, but they grow slowly. A pretty effect may be 
produced here by planting the erect yew, Taxiis erecta^ where the 
centre of the tree is indicated on the plan, with a golden arbor- 
vitae in front and a golden yew behind it. The erect yew is taller 
than the others, and very dark, so that if the three are planted not 
more than one or two feet apart, they will grow into a beautiful 
compact mass made up of three quite distinct tones of foliage. Or 
another pretty substitute for the one small tree, as shown on the 
plan, may be made by using the excessively slender Irish juniper for 
a centre i, and grouping dose around it the golden arbor-vitm 2, the 
Podocarpiis (or Taxus) japonica 3, the dwarf silver-fir, Picea com- 
pacta^ 6, the pigmy spruce, Ah'es excelsa pygnicea^ 4, the dwarf 
hemlock, Abies ca7iade?isis parsonic 5, and the creeping euonymus, 
jfaponicus radicans margmatus. This will in time make an irregu- 
lar pyramid composed of an interesting variety of foliage and 
color, and easily protected in winter, if the plants are of doubtful 
hardiness or vigor. 
The vase and flower-beds in front of the bay-window need no 
explanation. All the flower-beds shown on this plan, except the 
one opposite the back-porch, should be filled only with flowering- 
plants of the lowest growth : the bed excepted, and the place 
behind it, shown as shrubbery, may be occupied by taller plants, 
which are showy in leaves or flowers : but we think the effect will 
be more constantly pleasing if the latter is filled with evergreen 
shrubs from two to seven feet in height, mostly rhododendrons. 
At the front end of the bed of roses, on the right, we would 
plant the Nordmans fir, Picea Nord7nania7ia^ an evergreen tree of 
superior foliage, and believed hardy in most parts of the country. 
It eventually becomes a large tree, but will bear trimming when it 
begins to encroach too much upon the lawn. 
The hemlock screen represented opposite the bath-room win- 
dow should be thrown back to the end of the wash-room if the 
owner prefers to have that strip of ground in lawn, rather than 
under culture. We ask the reader to excuse us for having placed 
it where it is, for the space between the house and the currant- 
bushes allows of a pretty strip of lawn six feet wide, from which 
