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vitae, or the arborescent English ivy. If the front were to the 
north or east, and the soil a moist, friable loam, a very elegant 
sylvan arch might be made in time by planting six hemlock trees ; 
two in the corners just described, and four inside the gate — two 
on each side, and but a foot apart, as shown by the dots at a, a. 
Two of these could be made to grow into an arch over the gate, 
and the others to form two arches at right angles to the first, on 
each side of the walk. This would only be practicable, however, 
in case the town authorities will allow the trees nearest the gate 
to develop into the street ; but with four feet additional width in 
front of the veranda, it would be feasible without such privilege. 
In the left corner of the front, a Siberian arbor-vitae screen is 
intended. The veranda on the left is intended to be partially 
inclosed between the posts with lattice-work, and covered with 
vines-— there being just room enough between the veranda-founda- 
tion and the street line for the protection of their roots. 
Let us now turn to the narrow lawn-strip on the right ; a space 
but twenty feet wide and seventy feet deep to the arch-entrance 
of the grape-arbor and kitchen-garden on a line with the rear of 
the house. Midway of this strip the bay-window projects. The 
two objects to be kept in view in laying out this bit of a lawn 
are, first, to make the most pleasing out-look from the bay- 
window; and, second, the most pleasing in-look from the street. 
It is assumed that there is no desirable connection to be made 
with the lot on the right, so that a fence necessarily bounds 
the view on that side. We must suppose also that there is no 
house built, or likely to be built, up to that line, otherwise it would 
not be sensible to place the house on the street-side of the lot, but 
rather in the manner shown by Plate XV. 
The close fence, back to opposite the bay-window^, should be 
covered with English ivy if it can be made to grow there. Unless 
the exposure is due south, there ought to be little difficulty in 
getting the ivy to cover the fence if the owner will take the trouble 
to have it thatched over with straw on the approach of winter, 
and the base well mulched. A fence in such a place, if of wood, 
must be a neat piece of work, and well painted. Ivy will not 
creep up painted wood. We would therefore make a kind of 
