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P. Bed for favorite fragrant annuals or low shrubs. 
Q (by the side of the kitchen). Bed for flowering-vines to train on 
the house, or, if the exposure be southerly, or southeasterly, 
some good variety of grape-vine. Whichever side of the rear 
part of the house has the proper exposure to ripen grapes 
well, cannot be more pleasingly covered than with neatly 
kept grape-vines ; which should not be fastened directly to 
the house, but on horizontal slats from six inches to a foot 
from the house; and these should be so strongly put up 
that they may be used instead of a ladder to stand upon to 
trim the vines and gather the fruit. 
R. Rhododendrons. 
S. Bed of cannas, or assorted smaller plants with brilliant leaves 
of various colors. 
T. U, V, X, Z. A bed of rhododendrons. 
W, W, W. May be common deciduous shrubs of any favorite full- 
foliaged sort. 
Y. Rhododendrons and azalias. 
Opposite the corner of the veranda where fuschias are indi¬ 
cated, the space should be filled between the Irish juniper and 
the fence with the golden arbor-vitae and the Podocarpus japonica , 
planted side by side. 
The foregoing list for planting is made on the assumption that 
the owner is, or desires to be, an amateur in the choicest varieties 
of small evergreens, as well as in flowers, and willing to watch 
with patience their slow development; for there is no doubt that 
with deciduous shrubs a showy growth of considerable beauty can 
be secured in much less time. Yet the type of embellishment 
made with such a collection of evergreens as have been named for 
this place, is so much rarer, and has so greatly the advantage in 
its autumn, winter, and spring beauty, that we would have little 
hesitation in adopting it. 
For the benefit, however, of those who wish a quicker display 
of verdure in return for their expense and labor in planting, we 
subjoin an essentially different list of trees and shrubs for the 
same plan, viz.: 
