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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
house will be dampened, or have the sunlight excluded from its 
windows, by such shrubs as we would recommend for planting in 
the groups indicated against the houses in Plates V and VI. Small 
as they are, each one of these little places for shrubs are studies. 
Whether to plant a single robust shrub in each place, which will 
spread to fill it, or to form a collection of lilliputian shrubs around 
some taller one, is for the planter to decide. We cannot here in¬ 
dicate, in detail, the plantings for all these places. It will be ob¬ 
served that the right-hand front corner of the lot is filled with 
shrubs, supposed to be but a part of a group, the other part of 
which is on the lot of the adjoining neighbor. This may be com¬ 
posed of large shrubs, such as altheas, deutzias, lilacs, etc., for 
the interior, and weigelas, bush honeysuckles, Gordon’s currants, 
berberries, and low spireas of graceful growth for the outside. The 
tree ten feet from the right-hand corner should be one of the 
smallest class. The weeping Japan sophora grafted not more than 
six feet high, the ever-flowering weeping cherry, the new weeping 
thorn, the double scarlet thorn ( Coccinnea flore plena ) will make 
pretty trees for such a place. If something to produce a quick, 
luxuriant growth is preferred, the Judas tree, Cercis canadensis , or 
the Scamston weeping-elm, grafted on another stock seven or 
eight feet high, will do ; though the latter will eventually become a 
wide-spreading tree too large for the place. 
The isolated small tree, or large shrub, about seven feet from 
the fence near the middle of the front, may be an Andromeda 
arborea, or the Indian catalpa (the hardiness of which is not fully 
tested north of Philadelphia), the purple-fringe (grown low as a 
tree), the tree honeysuckle, Lonicera grandiflora, grown low on a 
single stem, the Weigela amabilis , also in tree-form ; Josikia or 
chionanthus-leaved lilac, the dwarf weeping cherry (a very slow 
grower), the Chionanthus virginica (a little tender north of Phila¬ 
delphia), the rose acacia grown over an iron frame, or any out- 
arching, low, small tree, weeping or otherwise, the foliage of which 
is pleasing throughout the season. Or, if a single evergreen is 
preferred, any one of the following will do : the dwarf white-pine, 
P. strobus comp acta, the golden yew, Taxns aurea, the weeping 
silver-fir, Picea pectinata pendula , the golden arbor-vitae, or the 
