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growth of other trees. It will be seen that the borders of the lot 
offer ample room for the growth of small fruits for one family. 
Strawberries may be grown in cultivated strips under the standard 
pear trees. 
From the dining-room window which opens upon the veranda, 
pleasing vistas down the grape-walks and the pear-walks will be 
seen through the vine-covered parts of the veranda, and the arches 
that mark the entrances to those walks. The height of the 
veranda floor will conceal one-third of the gravel space in front 
of the carriage-house from the eye of a person sitting in the 
dining-room, so that the vines that should wreath the end-open¬ 
ing of the veranda and the arches beyond, and their interior 
perspective, will be the principal objects in view. Between the 
row of dwarf pears and the side-street the arrangement of fruit 
trees is such that, seen from the front, the open lawn space 
surrounded by them will have quite as elegant an air as any 
other portion of the ground. The large fir tree at the end of the 
row of pear trees, and the arbor-vitse hedge between it and the 
arch, are intended to shut from view the tilled ground under the 
pear trees, and, together with the large pine tree nearer the house 
and its subjacent evergreen shrubs, to give a cheerful winter tone 
to this most used portion of the “back-yard.” 
On the front portion of the lot, the trees indicated by letters 
on the plan are intended to be the following—the list being made 
for a climate like that near the city of New York. 
At d, the dwarf white-pine, P. strobus comp acta; at e, e, a pair 
of Japan weeping sophoras; at/ Parson’s American arbor-vitae, 
Thuja occidentalis compacta ; at g, g, the American and European 
Judas trees; at h , the Kolreuteria paniculata; at i, the golden 
arbor-vitas; at j } the Indian catalpa; at k, the erect yew, Taxus 
ereda; at /, the golden yew, Taxus aurea; at m and ;z, Weigelas 
amabilis and rosea; at o, the new weeping juniper, / oblonga 
pendula; p and g, the weeping silver-fir and the weeping Norway 
spruce ; r, r , y, and z , z, an irregular belt of Siberian and other 
arbor-vitaes; s, s, weeping arbor-vitaes, Thuja pendula; at /, Sar¬ 
gent’s hemlock ; at u, a cherry tree (this in lieu of the cherry tree 
near the carriage-road gate, where, if the soil is congenial, we 
