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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
will be secured from the bays of the two principal rooms. The 
walk, as we have previously observed, is made near one side, to 
leave all the central portion of the lot in open lawn. It is not 
possible to keep this openness of expression, and at the same time 
have large trees on the lot. They must be dispensed with; and in 
stocking the borders to make a rich environment of verdure for the 
lawn, the choice must be exclusively among small trees and shrubs. 
Let us begin at the gate. Here we would set out to have a hem¬ 
lock arch;—though the trees as shown on the plan erroneously 
symbolize deciduous trees. At the opposite fiont cornei 
would plant the two slender weeping firs, Abies excelsa inverta 
and Picea p. pendula. But as their growth is slow compared 
with that of many fine deciduous shrubs, a mass of the latter 
may be planted near the firs, to fill that corner with foliage until 
the latter are from twelve to twenty years old, when the weeping 
firs will be large enough to fill it beautifully without support. 
The border on the left should be made up of evergreen shrubs 
or trees, as varied in foliage as possible, and of those sorts which 
do not exceed six or seven feet in height and breadth. The iso¬ 
lated small trees or shrubs which stand out from this border are 
designed to be of deciduous sorts, the most charming for their 
forms, foliage, or flowers ; the largest of which should not, within 
ten years, exceed ten feet in breadth. These, and the dwarf shrubs 
which flank them, can be selected from the lists to be found in the 
Appendix. As some of those which are in time the most interest¬ 
ing. are of exceedingly slow growth, bedding plants and annuals 
which will preserve the same form for the groups by their propor¬ 
tioned sizes may be substituted. But there is no question of the 
superior beauty, in the end, of the place which is largely composed 
of trees and shrubs that make it charming in winter and early spring 
as well as in summer. The quick and brilliant effects that may 
be produced with bedding-plants can, however, be combined some¬ 
what with more permanent plantings, if the planter will be watch¬ 
ful not to let his vigorous but ephemeral summer-plants smother the 
slower growing dwarfs. The latter will not long survive being thus 
deprived of sun and air in summer, and then left bare in the bleak 
winter, while their summer companions which lorded over them 
