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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
Happily such modes of planting are becoming rarer, but they 
are still quite too common. 
Now we do not mean to convey the idea that this little piece of 
ground might be made into a little park by judicious planting, or 
that all of what has been crowded into it might have been put in 
differently without crowding it. It is a small lot on which it is not 
possible to have a great variety of trees and shrubs without clutter¬ 
ing it, and losing all appearance of a lawn. Our plan on the left 
of the same plate is not designed to show the most artistic way of 
treating this small yard, but to show the most simple way of not 
overdoing by zw-planting. The fruit trees are introduced in about 
the same places as in the other plan, but in front of them no over¬ 
shadowing trees are planted. At the sides, other yards are sup¬ 
posed to connect with this lot, and openings are left in the border 
shrubbery to avail of whatever pleasant lookouts may thus be 
obtained. All the middle portion of the yard is unbroken by 
shrubbery, which is arranged in groups near the corners, and 
around the house. The entrance gateway should be embellished 
with a verdant arch of hemlock; the front corners of the lot may 
be marked by carefully grown specimens of arbor-vitaes or slender 
junipers; the small trees standing alone, about seven feet from the 
front, should be choice specimens, either evergreen or deciduous, 
similar in form, and as dissimilar as possible in color and foliage. 
Among evergreens we would name for these places the two weep¬ 
ing firs— Abies inverta pendula and Picea pectinata pendula —as the 
most appropriate of all; or, for one side the yew Taxus stt'ida or 
erecta , and on the other the yew Taxas aurea; or the weeping 
arbor-vitae for one side, and the weeping juniper for the other ; or 
with dwarfs, of the dwarf pine P. strobus compacta on one side, and 
the mugho pine on the other. With deciduous arboreous shrubs 
or small trees, the variety to choose from is very great. We will 
suggest for one side the weeping Japan sophora, grafted not more 
than seven feet high, and for the other the double scarlet haw¬ 
thorn, C. coccinnea flore plena , cut to resemble the sophora in out¬ 
line; or for one side the Indian catalpa (see Fig. 129), and for the 
other a sassafras or a white dogwood, Cornus plorida , kept clipped 
down at the top so that it shall not exceed eight feet in height or 
