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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
evergreen trees in Part II. By selecting the smallest evergreens 
for the front of the group, and placing the larger ones behind, even 
a small bed like this will accommodate a large number of speci¬ 
mens. The side towards the veranda is laid out in a formal 
circle for convenience in first laying it out, but as the planting 
progresses, and as it becomes desirable to add one small thing 
after another to the group, this, as well as some of the other 
groups, may be enlarged in the manner shown by the dotted lines ) 
or, it can be laid out in that manner at first, if the list of small 
choice evergreens to be purchased is large enough to fill it. Most 
of the finer dwarf evergreens are rare and costly compared with 
common sorts, so that the lists must be made with prudence, in 
order that these, together with other more indispensable purchases 
from the nurseries, shall not amount to so large a sum as to sur¬ 
prise and discourage the planter. Where the resources of the 
proprietor will not permit him to procure at once everything that 
can be advantageously used on the place, it is best to plant, the 
first season, all the larger (which are usually the commoner and 
cheaper) trees and shrubs, keeping the beds filled with showy 
annuals, while acquiring, year by year, choice additional collections 
of permanencies. But it i& quite essential to the formation of 
tasteful grounds that all the large permanent trees and shrubs be 
placed properly in the beginning, so that whatever is afterwards 
added will be of such subsidiary character as will group with and 
around the former. 
The group D, from the gate to the pear tree, should be com¬ 
posed of a mass of low evergreen trees or shrubs planted about six 
feet from the walk \ and from the foot-walk gate to the carriage 
gate with a hedge of Siberia arbor-vitoe planted two feet from the 
fence. Between this hedge and the pear tree, at the intersection 
of the walks, there will be room enough for the following: mugho 
pine (P. mughus), the dwarf white pine (P. s. comp acta), the Ceph- 
alotaxus fortunii mascula, the conical yew ( Taxus erecta), the 
golden yew ( Taxus aurea ), the golden arbor-vitse ( Thuja anrea), 
Sargent’s hemlock ( Abies canadensis inverta), and the weeping 
juniper (J. oblonga pendula ). By alternating the dark and light 
colored foliage of these evergreen shrubs, placing the dark ones 
