CITY GARDENS. 
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There are many plants, too, usually treated as shrubs, which 
can he trained upon walls like espcdiered fruit; among 
these, the cydonia Japonica , with its rich coral blossoms in 
spring aud dark-green leaves in summer, is particularly ef¬ 
fective. Planted unobtrusively at the corner of a fence, it 
will branch right and left, and form a sort of hedge no less 
beautiful than novel. Many of the evergreen shrubs, and 
especially the new variegated kinds, will do admirably on 
the shady side of the street. Rhododendrons, kalmias, and, 
An English Court-yard. 
with some amount of space, pinus cembra , ilex laurifolia , 
American holly, andromedas, juniper, etc., would abun¬ 
dantly repay the cultivation. 
In English cities and towns, these little contracted 
front yards are made into blooming Edens, sometimes not 
more than twenty feet square. With neat edging tiles for 
the narrow side beds, and a raised parterre in the center 
crowned by some graceful shrub or foliage plant, and the 
English brick walls covered with climbers, “ the entrance 
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