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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
narrow beds may be cut adjoining the foundation-walls, for beds of 
low or slender annuals, which will not sprawl too far away from* 
the house. The space will certainly be more profitable to the eye 
in this way than it can be in fruits and vegetables. 
Plate VI. — This plan is so similar to the preceding, and both 
are of so simple a character, that the intelligent reader will learn by 
an examination of the plate what manner of planting is intended. 
This plate differs principally from Plate V in having four pine trees 
of conspicuous size on the street margin of the lot. This pre- 
supposes a well-drained sandy soil, for without a congenial soil 
the pines will not develop great beauty. Supposing this condition 
to be satisfied, evergreens may be made a specialty of this place, 
and used as follows : Close by the left-hand gate-post (entering 
from the street), plant a bunch of the common border-box j a foot 
from it, and midway between the walk and side fence, a plant of 
the broad-leaved tree-box ; a foot further, on the same mid-line, 
a plant of the gold or silver striped-leaved tree-box; then fill 
in with hemlocks a foot apart, and a foot from the fence, as 
far as the group is designated. Four feet from the same gate- 
post, and two feet from the walk, plant a Podocarpus japonica ; 
eight feet from the gate, and three from the walk, the Cephalo- 
taxus fortunii ?nascula ; four feet beyond, and four feet from the 
walk, the golden arbor-vitae. Between the right-hand gate-post and 
the pine tree, fill next to the gate with the common English ivy, to 
trail on the ground and form a bush ; next, midway between the 
fence and walk, and four feet from the post, the golden yew [Taxus 
haccata aiirea) ; next, same distance from the walk, Sargent’s 
hemlock (A. canade?isis invertd) ; --and between the pine and the 
fence, fill in with mahonias (aqiiifoliuni and jap 07 iicitni). The 
pine here alluded to, to be the common white pine. The 
dwarf trees shown on the plan, twenty feet from the gate, are 
the Abies gregoriana on one side the walk, and on the other 
the Picea hiidsonica^ or the Picea pectinata compacta. These, and 
the gateway groups, form an entrance through evergreens alone. 
In climates more severe than that of New York city, substi- 
tute the Pinus strobus cojnpacta for the Cephalotaxus fortunii 
