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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
to offer satisfactory openings where indicated by the upper dotted 
lines on each side. The groups of shrubbery are placed so 
as to illustrate many of the suggestions of the rules given in 
Chapter XI. No long vista of lawn is possible, but the groups 
and single specimens of shrubs or dwarf trees, with a few bedding- 
plants and flower-beds, if properly chosen, and planted in con¬ 
formity with the plan, and well grown, will hardly fail to make 
a yard of superior attractiveness; especially pleasing as seen 
from the bay-windows;—the arrangement having been made with 
reference to the effect from them. 
Description .—Let us begin at the front-entrance gate, from 
which a walk four feet wide leads straight to the veranda entrance, 
and a walk three feet in width to the kitchen entrance. On 
each side the front gate arbor-vitae trees (the Siberian) are desig¬ 
nated, with low masses of evergreen shrubs between them and 
the fence. An opening to a straight walk like this is especially 
appropriate for a verdant arch, and if the proprietor has the 
patience to grow one, the substitution of the hemlock for the arbor- 
vitae is recommended. For an arch, the trees should not be planted 
more than two feet away from the walk. 
The only large trees on this plan are a pair of maples, about 
twelve feet, diagonally, from the corners of the veranda and 
main house respectively; a white or Austrian pine on the right 
border, four cherry trees in the right-side yard, and the pear trees 
in the kitchen-garden department. The maples may be the purple¬ 
leaved, and the golden-leaved varieties of the sycamore maple. A 
hemlock screen or hedge bounds the croquet ground on the south; 
at the corner are a few Norway spruces ; next, in front, a group of 
arbor-vitaes ; then a continuous hedge of the same • for twenty feet, 
terminated by a group of arbor-vitaes and yews chosen to exhibit 
contrasts of color. 
The group on the left, between the upper dotted lines, is to be 
composed of a variety of strong growing common shrubs, with a 
Lawson’s cypress or a Nordmanns fir, or the Chinese cypress, 
Glypto-strobus sinensis, where the symbol of the arbor-vitae is 
shown. Towards the street from that tree we would put in ever¬ 
green shrubs only. 
