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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
the parlor and dining-room windows will exhibit a generous expan¬ 
sion of lawn which it is desirable to secure; and it will probably 
include in the view from them some embellishments which this 
place has not. If, however, there is anything unsightly in the 
neighbor lot, or any unfriendly disposition on the part of its 
owner that induces him to ignore the advantage of mutual views 
over each other’s lawns, and to fence or plant to prevent it, that 
side may then be filled with masses of shrubbery in a manner 
similar to that shown on the left of Plate IV. 
The group G, at the left, may be planted from the street to the 
pine with the strong growing old shrubs—lilacs, weigelas, honey¬ 
suckles, syringas, deutzias, etc., etc. Under, or rather near, the 
white or Austrian pine (the former pine if the soil is sandy, the 
latter if it is clayey), plant almost any of the yews, the Sargent 
hemlock, the Hypericum kalmianum and H. prolift cum ^ the tree- 
box variety angustifolia , and the variegated-leaved elder, all of 
which flourish in the shade of other trees. At the upper extreme 
of the group plant the pendulous Norway spruce, Abies excelsa 
inverta; eight feet behind it the common Norway spruce, and 
between this and the pine the Chinese cypress, Glypto-strobus 
sinensis pcndula , and some of the evergreen shrubs just named. 
The belt of hemlocks against the fence, opposite the dining¬ 
room bay-window, is to be terminated at the front by a slender 
weeping silver-fir, Picea pectinata pendula. The trees at the two 
corners of the dining-room bay are intended for Irish junipers, 
or the weeping juniper, J. oblongapendula. Other trees and shrubs 
are designated on the plan, and need no explanation. 
There are many small flower-beds on the plan, and one quite 
large rose-bed in the middle of the front at F. The latter is to 
have an elegant rose-pillar, or a substantial trellis in the centre, 
with groups of roses of varieties graded to diminish in size to the 
points. Or, if preferred, this may be a group of evergreens with 
the slender weeping silver-fir for a centre, and lower trees and 
dwarfs around it, so as to form the same figure of a cross. This 
will, in time, be more beautiful throughout the greater part of the 
year than the rose-bed, but the latter can be made far more 
brilliant in summer. Yet the rude, briary appearance of rose- 
