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planted, all these must be removed. Or the groups of shrubbery 
around these trees may be composed entirely of rhododendrons if 
the proprietor can afford it. The group to the left, adjoining the 
neighbor-lot, is intended as a continuation of the group around the 
left-hand gateway tree, and may be composed of similar shrubs of 
larger growth. The two small pine trees farther up on the left, 
marked i, are to be the mugho and dwarf white pines—the latter 
towards the house. The group of shrubs (2) between these and 
the carriage-way, and near the latter, should be choice small hardy 
evergreens—say, for the centre, the weeping juniper, J. oblonga 
pendula , or the erect yew, Taxus erecta ; each side of this, on a line 
parallel with the road, and three feet from the centre, the golden 
arbor-vitae, and the golden yew ; at the ends, and three feet from 
the latter, plant the dwarf silver-fir, Picea pectinata compacta, and 
the dwarf spruce, Abies gregoriana. Outside the line of these, 
and midway of the spaces between them, plant the pygmy spruce, 
the dwarf black spruce, the dwarf Swedish juniper, the juniper 
repanda dens a, the trailing juniper repens , and the Daphne 
cneorum. The first pair of fir trees on the left, next the fence (3), 
may be, one the Norway, and the other the oriental spruce. The 
border along the fence is to be of hemlocks ; the next pair of firs 
(4) may be the cephalonian fir, nearest the fence, and the Nord- 
manns fir ten feet in advance of it. The pine tree (5) opposite the 
bay-window of the room marked S, is improperly placed there. It 
should be fifteen feet further towards the front of the lot; and is 
intended for the Bhotan pine. The two small trees on the left (6), 
opposite the turn-circle, are a pair of Judas trees. The group of 
four trees next the fence (7) may be a pair of sassafras in the 
middle ; a weeping Japan sophora nearest the house, and the 
white-flowering dogwood farthest from the house. An under¬ 
growth nearest to the fence may be made with the red-twigged dog¬ 
wood, Cornus alba , the flowering-currants, and the variegated-leaved 
elder; and the border continued to the rear corner with common 
and well-known shrubs. No. 8 is for a Kolreuteria paniculata , 
connected by overarching shrubs with the side-border; 9 is a 
weeping beech ; 10, 10, masses of hemlocks ; the tree in the far 
corner an Austrian pine; 11 a white pine, and behind it an 
