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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE* 
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PLAN OP A SUBURBAN PLACE OP EIGHT ACRES. BY E. A. BAUMANN, RAHWAY, N. J. 
scattered flower-beds, or beds for roses, orna¬ 
mental foliaged plants, and bedding plants in 
general, with the exception of hardy perennials , 
which I should suggest to employ as much as 
possible in the foregrounds of groups of shrubs, 
where they will show better in spring, and 
Where their foliage (which often requires cutting 
back after the flowers are oyer, if employed in 
groups in connection with annual or bedding- 
plants,) will be constantly a good link connect¬ 
ing the foliage of the shrubbery with the lawn. 
At Y, there is a short hedge to subdivide 
the orchard from the pasture ground, provided 
the last field be employed for this purpose. 
As a convenient communication between 
stable, orchard, and pasture lot, there has been 
suggested a lane, Z Z, which, instead of being 
gravelled, may just as well be sodded. 
This system of sodded walks and lanes, 
‘through worked fields, is of very great advant¬ 
age, as it avoids edgings, and may be kept con¬ 
stantly in good order by the mowing machine 
and the roller. They ought generally to be 
some three to four inches above the land, thus 
making the trimming easier than by having 
them below the surface of the cultivated park. 
In laying out a plan like this, I should even 
Fig. 1. —ARCn POR AN AQUARIUM. 
suggest that the main, or cart, road in the vege¬ 
table garden be made in this way. Where I have 
seen such walks employed, or where I have laid 
them down, they give much satisfaction ; the 
Fig. 2. —HANGING BRACKET. 
weather must be very damp for a long while be¬ 
fore a light cart will cut in; and then any other 
walk or drive will present the same difficulty, 
unless it is very well stoned and gravelled, which 
costs more than five times the making of a 
sodded one, besides the keeping in order, renew¬ 
ing the gravel, and the indispensable edging. 
In regard to the planting, the space of this 
article will hardly allow complete specification, 
though this part of the operation is rather the 
more important. This is more the artistic part 
of the Landscape Gardener; indications of a 
general arrangement may be given, but it is 
usually ruled by the trees and shrubs on hand, or 
that may or may not succeed in this or that soil. 
As a general hint, it may be indicated that, 
for instance, the north-western part and the 
northern side may be stocked mainly with the 
various leading evergreen trees, thus protecting 
the place from the cold winds in winter, and 
hiding for the -whole year all such features as 
ought not to be seen from the dwelling. 
Single deciduous trees and shrubs may then, 
as contrasts, be employed in smaller numbers 
between the evergreens, or in front of them, 
where even tender sorts may find some shelter 
in winter. The employment of a majority of 
evergreens in one part of the lot does not ex¬ 
clude them from the other parts; but then the 
deciduous trees and shrubs ought to form a ma¬ 
jority, and the evergreens only be interspersed, 
to give a variety, and to afford some green 
foliage over the place during the whole year. 
Single dense groups even may be introduced 
in such a manner as to present a long front to¬ 
wards the house, having the sun in their rear. 
Such groups, once grown up, will afford shady 
locations in which Rhododendrons, Azaleas, 
Andromedas, Ledums, ferns, and evergreen 
climbers, will succeed better than anywhere else. 
In giving this ideal of a place, we represented 
a piece of flat ground instead of a hilly one. 
There are everywhere flat grounds to be met, 
and the distribution given here may answer 
somewhere or other, in the whole, or in part. 
A design for an uneven, hilly, or rolling land 
may be a good drawing, and show the best of 
distributions, but it will never be of much help 
to a reader of this, as two similar pieces of un¬ 
even ground will hardly be found. Such grounds 
Fig-. 3. —RUSTIC JARDTNET. 
require a plan for their own shape, just as each 
hunchback requires a coat made for his own use. 
