AND GROUNDS. 
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We have alluded to the length of carriage-road on this lot as 
disproportioned to the size of the residence. This is so decided 
that we must consider the plan as an example of a fault to be 
avoided, rather than a plan to be followed. Not only the length 
of the drive is objectionable for a residence of this simple 
character, but also the corner entrance, which is usually the 
least convenient point for crossing the street-gutters and the 
side-walks. Plate X shows a much more sensible entrance and car- 
riage-way. 
In other respects this plan is better ; the grouping being such 
as would give very pleasing effects, whether looking towards the 
house or from it. On the south are several openings to the street, 
and on the north one only, connecting with private grounds on 
that side. 
Supposing the roads, walks, orchard, and garden to have been 
laid out as shown by the plan, the following trees and shrubs are 
suggested for some of the principal places. The lines conforming 
in part to the forms of the groups of shrubs are intended to show 
the form of beds to be enriched and prepared for them. 
The group at a, on the left of the corner entrance-way, to be 
composed of a weeping willow or a weeping Scotch elm in the 
centre, and the three best varieties of dogwood on the three points 
of the group ; — the bed to be filled, while these are growing, with 
spreading shrubs of low growth. The group, on the right of the 
same entrance, to have an American weeping elm in the centre, 
and at /, y, and /, the American and European Judas trees, the 
broad-leaved strawberry tree {^Enonymus /afifolius), and the dog- 
wood iyConius floridd ) ; and between them the syringas, weigelas, 
variegated elder, flowering currants, etc., etc. 
The trees at b and c may be the double-flowering white and the 
red-flowering horse-chestnuts ; between them and the fence a mass 
of large shrubs. At a weeping beech ; between it and the fence 
plant shrubs, to be removed when the beech needs all the space ; 
near the fence Siberian arbor-vitaes to form a concave hedge to, 
and across, (overarching) the side-entrance gate. At <?, ten feet 
from both the walk and the drive, a pair of sassafras trees four feet 
apart, with an oval mass of low spreading shrubs — spireas, flower- 
