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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
letters the inferior trees and shrubbery. A and B are the purple- 
leaved and the golden-leaved sycamore maples j C, the weeping 
willow ; D, the weeping beech ; E and F, the common and the 
cut-leaved weeping birches ; G, the ginkgo or Salisburia tree j H, 
the purple-leaved beech ; I, the Kolreuteria paniculata ; J, J, the 
red-flowering, and the double white-flowering horse-chestnuts ; 
K, K, a pair of pines in each place — the Bhotan (excelsd) and 
white pine in one, and the Bhotan and Austrian in the other — to 
be planted six feet apart, the Bhotan on the north side in both 
cases ; L, white pine ; M, Austrian pine \ on the right of N, the 
weeping Norway spruce ; and on the left, the Cembran pine, or 
(south of New York and near the sea) the cypress, Glypto-strobiis 
sinensis ; O, the white or the Austrian pine, as the soil may be 
better for one or the other ; P, a mass and belt of hemlocks ; Q, a 
weeping Scotch elm ; R, the grape-leaved linden ; S, nearest the 
intersection of the walks, the sugar maple, and to the right of it 
the purple-leaved sycamore maple ; T and V a mass of Austrian 
pines, with an undergrowth of hemlocks ; U, catalpa ; W, a pair 
of weeping Norway spruces, with hemlocks behind them ; X, the 
weeping silver-fir backed by hemlocks and flanked with a group 
of rhododendrons ; Y, a pair of pines, the white and the Pyrenean, 
six feet apart ; Z, the Austrian and the Bhotan pines, the same 
distance apart. 
Of the shrubbery we can indicate only the general character of 
the groups, and name specimens only when standing singly, or a 
few in a group. The masses a, a, may be shrubs of fine common 
sorts, the taller in the centre line of the group, and the margins 
filled in with rhododendrons; or may be composed entirely of 
evergreens, such as the arbor-vitaes, yews, dwarf firs, junipers, and 
pines, with rhododendrons and azalias among them. The de- 
ciduous shrubs, however, would make a fine border in much less 
time, and at less expense than the latter. At b, a Weigela amabilis 
in the centre, and on each side the weigelas rosea and hortensia 
nivea ; at c, the two deutzias crenata alba and crenata rubra flore 
plena ; at d, d, d, d^ masses of common shrubs, not allowed to 
exceed seven feet in height, forced to make a dense mass at the 
bottom, and planted to form an irregular outline next to the lawn ; 
