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we have here first introduced a hedge on the street line. The gate- 
way should be rather larger than is common on foot-walks, and 
covered with a carefully grown hemlock arch. The hedge may be 
of hemlock or of Siberian arbor-vitae, and not more than six feet 
in height. At a, a, it is designed to be hollowed by a concave cut 
on the sides and top, so that the latter will not be more than three 
and a half feet high in the middle. With this arrangement there 
will be three glimpses into the place from the street ; one under 
the gateway arch, and the others over the concave cuts in the 
hedge. The buttresses on the inside are intended to give variety 
in the line, and in the lights and shadows of the hedge. They are 
easily made with the hedge by placing two or three hedge-plants 
at right angles with the line of the hedge at the points where 
wanted. 
We have called attention in another place to a peculiarity of 
the arrangement of shrubs and trees on this place. There are three 
long lines of view, each of pre-eminent interest from the different 
points where each is likely to be most observed. First the walk- 
view, as seen from the gateway looking towards the house, or from 
the terrace steps looking towards the gateway ; the second and 
third, on the lines between the bay-windows and the scollops in the 
front hedge, ranging the whole distance over an unbroken lawn 
elegantly margined on both sides with flowers, shrubs, and trees. 
If the reader will raise this plate nearly level with the eye, and 
glance along the lines indicated, he will appreciate better than we 
can explain what we have endeavored to accomplish in this plan. 
It is desirable, in order to achieve the best result of this arrange- 
ment, that the character of the foliage on the two sides of the lot 
should be so different as to give a distinct effect to the views out 
of the two bay-windows. In addition to these three prominent 
lines of view, charming long narrow vistas may be made to give 
interest to the seats at the ends of the walks. 
One selection of trees and shrubs for the most prominent places 
on this plan may be the following : 
Group I, on the left : at a, the weeping juniper (ohlonga 
pendiild) ; at the erect yew ( Taxiis erectd) ; at <r, the golden 
yew {Taxiis aured) ; at the weeping Indian juniper (y. 
