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back of the front line of the house, is a row of four cherry trees, 
and two others are indicated on the rear part of the croquet-ground. 
Six standard pear trees, on the other side of the house, form a row 
parallel with a continuous grape-trellis which divides the lawn from 
the vegetable-garden. Some peach trees may be planted in the 
garden-square next the cow-house. The borders by the fences 
around the back of the lot furnish ample room for currants, rasp- 
berries, and blackberries. 
The decorative planting of the lawn-ground may be as follows : 
on each side of the gateway, at a, plant a group of pines, white, 
Austrian, and Bhotan, to be clipped when they begin to trespass 
on the walk, and to overarch it when large enough. The group on 
the left of the walk, directly in front of the same entrance, should 
be composed of shrubby evergreen trees or shrubs, diminishing to 
those of small size at the point. At b, the weeping silver-fir. At 
c, r, fifteen feet from the front corners of the house, a pair of either 
of the following species, of the varieties named : — of beeches, the 
purple-leaved and the fern-leaved ; of birches, the old weeping and 
the cut-leaved weeping ; of horse-chestnuts, the double-white and 
the red-flowering ; of lindens, the American basswood and the 
grape-leaved ; of magnolias, the 7nachrophylla and the cordata ; of 
mountain ashes, the oak-leaved ; of maples, the purple-leaved 
and the gold-leaved sycamore ; of oaks, the scarlet (coccmea) on 
both sides ; of tulip trees (whitewood), there being no distinct 
varieties, the same on both sides, or a tulip tree on one side, and a 
virgilia or Magnolia cordata on the other. Our own choice among 
these would be of birches, maples, or horse-chestnuts. 
At d, the face of the hedge may be broken by a projecting group 
of yews and arbor-vitaes. At <?, a group of rhododendrons. At f and 
g any one of the following deciduous species of small low trees, if 
grown with care and symmetry, viz.: the Indian catalpa (C. hima- 
layensis) south of Philadelphia; the Chinese C}^press {Glypto-stro- 
bus sinensis) ; the silver-bell [Halesia tetrapterci) ; the sassafras 
(although rather large for the place) ; the dwarf horse-chestnuts, 
Pavia coccinea^ P. pumila pendula, and P. cornea superba.; the Euro- 
pean bird cherry, Prwms padics ; the American white-flowering 
and the Cornelian cherry dogwoods, C. florida and C. mas ; the 
