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with grape-vines or other small fruits, or with a continuous belt 
of common deciduous shrubs. Against the foundation-walls of the 
house we would plant a continuous line of varieties of the English 
ivy, even if they creep permanently no higher than the w^ater-table. 
Up to that height they often make a shrubby mass of evergreen 
foliage, and form a pleasing back-ground for the finer shrubs that 
may be grown near the house in front of them. For a running 
vine on brick and stone walls, and for draping windows and cor- 
nices with foliage, the American ivy or Virginia creeper is greatly 
superior in this country to the English ivy. We can go no further 
in designating the shrubs to plant near the house-walls than to 
merely reiterate that they should be of those flowering and fragrant 
varieties which are usually full-foliaged, not apt to get bare of leaves 
at the bottom, and which do not exceed six feet in height ; in short, 
low, compact, or spreading shrubs. 
The fruit-tree features of this place are sufficiently designated 
by the symbols. 
There being a cold grape-house indicated, it is natural to sup- 
pose that flowers and bulbs may be forced in it, and that the 
care of these, together with grounds embellished with so many 
flowers, will involve the employment of a gardener; to whom, 
or to the lady of the house, we leave the selection of the flowers 
to be used in filling the beds on the margin of the circle, and 
the vase or basket in its centre. 
Plate XXI. 
^ J^/au for a Deep Fro7it Yard^ on a7i Li-Lot 07ie himdred feet wide, 
with the House 07i a terrace plateau; designed to har7notiize 
architectural a7id garde7iesque for77is. 
This plan is a peculiar study in many respects. All the deco- 
rative portion of the grounds is in front of the house, and the 
depth from the street to the house-front is even greater in propor- 
tion to the width of the lot than in the preceding plan. The 
arrangement at the street-front is also more simple and more 
