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many more qualities which suit it for the places indicated, than 
any other evergreen, that we would make its use a specialty of the 
plan. The exquisite Bhotan pine is still of doubtful longevity 
with us j that is to say, it occasionally dies out after eight or ten 
years of healthy growth, just when its fountain-like tufts of droop- 
ing foliage have become so conspicuously beautiful as to endear it 
greatly to the owner. The same may be said of the long-leaved 
Pyrrenean pine. Neither the Austrian or the Scotch pines drop 
their lower limbs with so little injury to their symmetry as the 
white pine, nor have either of them so fine a texture of foliage or 
wood when seen near by. On small lots, ground-room cannot 
well be afforded for that extension of the branches of evergreens 
upon a lawn, which constitutes one of their greatest beauties where 
there is space enough around to allow them to be seen to advan- 
tage. Therefore trees which develop their beauty overhead, and 
permit the lawn to be used and seen under their boughs, are more 
desirable. 
Plate VII. 
A long^ narrow House, with Front near the Street, on an In-Lot sixty 
feet wide, and of considerable depth. 
We have here an inside lot of sixty feet front, occupied to the 
depth of one hundred and thirty feet by the house, the walks and 
the ground embellishments. The kitchen-garden is back of the 
grape trellis, which should be of an ornamental character. The 
house is stretched out to correspond with the form of the lot, which 
is supposed to have no desirable ground connections with the adjoin- 
ing lots, yet not so disagreeably surrounded as to make it neces- 
sary to shut out by trees and shrubs the' out-look over the fences 
from the side-windows of the bay. The style of planting here 
shown is such as would suit only a person or family of decided 
taste for flowers, and the choicest selections of small shrubs. In 
the rear left-hand corner is room enough for two cherry trees, 
under which the lawn forms a sufficient drying-yard, and a con- 
venient currant-border utilizes a space next the fence. Besides 
