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sycamore maple ; H (though it is not so marked), we would pre- 
fer to make a pair of pines, the Austrian and the white, the former 
in the rear of the latter. The pine tree directly west of the bed- 
room may be either the white, Austrian, Bhotan, or Pyrenean, 
the two latter being the most interesting, but of uncertain lon- 
gevity. Beginning at the right-hand front entrance, J, K, may be 
Scotch weeping elms, and I, the Scamston elm. The shrubbery at 
and near the entrance is for effect during the first ten years after 
planting, and to be removed when the elms shadow that entrance 
sufficiently. At L, plant a Kolreuteria paniculata ; at M, the 
paulonia ; at N and O, weeping birches ; at P, the Magnolia 
77iachrophylla ; at Q, Nordmanns fir; at R, a Magnolia tripetata ; 
at S, the weeping beech ; at T, a white or Austrian pine ; at U, a 
hemlock screen; at V, a group of Norway spruces. The fruit trees 
on the plan may be known by their symbols. 
Of shrubbery and shrubby trees the middle group (unlettered) 
near the front is the most important, as it is visible from almost 
every point of view in and near the grounds. Measured on the 
curved line of its centre, it is fifty feet in length, and may be made 
an artistic miniature arboretum of choice things, either evergreens 
or deciduous ; but should be all one or the other, on its upper 
outline ; though the under-shruhs may be deciduous and evergreen 
mingled. In either case its arrangement should be planned, and 
its materials selected by a skillful gardener. It is impracticable, in 
the limits of this work, to present the working details for such 
groups on a scale that can be readily followed ; we therefore 
merely suggest that the centre should be made with something 
that will not exceed twenty feet in height at maturity, and the 
group should diminish in height at the sides, so that the points 
may be occupied by interesting dwarfs that may be overlooked by 
persons passing on the sidewalk. 
The shrubberies at a, and b, b, b, b, d, and e, are simply masses 
of the good old syringas, lilacs, honeysuckles, snow-balls, currants, 
altheas, and the newer weigelas, deutzias, spireas, and other shrubs, 
which may be arranged in a hundred different ways to give the 
foliage and forms of each a good setting. 
The small tree at c, may be the American red-bud or Judas tree, 
