AND GROUNDS. 
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briefly describe those features of the place which need expla¬ 
nation. 
The front entrance of the place (the one at the bottom of the 
page on the plate) is designed to have an elm tree arch over it, 
similar to that shown by Fig. 40 in Chapter XIV. The group A, 
on the right near the gate, may be entirely composed of rhodo¬ 
dendrons. 
The group E is composed of a pair of weeping silver-firs 
(nearest the gate), the mugho pine on the left, and the dwarf 
white pine, P. compacta , farthest from the gate. 
Group B, on the right, will shade the walk with the low and 
broadly spreading top of the Kolreuteria paniculata at its point, 
behind which may be another group of rhododendrons, and close 
to the fence a compact border of hemlocks, which must be allowed 
to spread well upon the ground, and mingle their boughs with the 
rhododendrons, but not to exceed eight or ten feet in height. 
The group C, with a sugar maple (in the place of which a pair of 
Magnolia machrophyllas , planted close together, might be substituted 
with good effect) in front of it, is to be composed of a circle of 
choice dwarf evergreens on the side next the house, backed by a 
hemlock border along the fence, as described for the preceding 
group. 
From the following list a choice of dwarf evergreen trees 
or shrubs can be made : Pinns strobus compacta , Pinus stro- 
bus pumila , Pinus sylvestris pumila , Pinus mughus, Picea pec- 
tmata compacta , Picea pectinata pendula , Picea hudsonica , Abies 
nigra pumila , Abies 'nigra pendula , Abies excelsa gregoriana, Abies 
excels a invert a, Abies e. conica , Abies canadensis inverta , Abies 
canadensis parsoni, Andromeda floribunda , tree-box, Puxus ar- 
borea , Hypericum kalmianum and Id. prolijicum , the kalmias, 
the creeping junipers Juniperus repens , Juniper us repanda densa, 
J. suecica, J. suecica nana , J. hibernica , J. oblonga pendula, 
J. spceroides , Thuja aurea , Thuja occidentals compacta , Taxus 
baccata aurea , Taxus erecta, Taxus baccata elegantissima , Cepha- 
lotaxus fortunii mascula, Taxus or Podocarpus japonica , the rho¬ 
dodendrons, and the mahonias. For the sizes and character¬ 
istics of all these, we must refer the reader to the descriptions ot 
