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Austrian pine ; and hemlocks and white pines fill the border 
towards the carriage-house. 
On the right of the lawn the fruit trees are sufficiently symbol¬ 
ized. At 12, a purple beech; at 13, a group of the choicest shrubs 
increasing in size as they recede from the house. For the point 
nearest the carriage-road the Andromeda Jloribunda is well suited ; 
eighteen inches behind it the Deutzia gracilis; the same distance 
from that, two plants side by side and one foot apart from the Rho¬ 
dodendron roseum elegafis; then pairs of plants of rhododendrons 
in the following order, R. album candidissima , R. grandiflorum 
gloriosum; and beyond them, for the end of the bed, Sargent’s 
hemlock, or the pendulous Norway spruce, A. e. inverta; or, 
the weeping silver-fir, Picea p. pendula. The group at the turn of 
the carriage-road, and on a line with the pear trees, may be com¬ 
posed of any good common shrubs of large size, being careful to 
place those which grow bare at the bottom in the rear of those 
whose foliage bends gracefully to the ground. The bed adjoining 
the rear veranda is for the choice small pet-flowers of the lady 
of the house, whatever they may be. 
On the front, the large tree to the right of the carriage-road, 
nearest the house, is intended for the cut-leaved weeping birch, 
or a pair of them planted but a few feet apart. At 14 may be a 
single plant of the old red tartarian honeysuckle, grown in rich 
ground and allowed to spread upon the lawn. At 15, on the 
end towards the house, a Japan weeping sophora grafted not 
more than seven feet high ; in the middle, on the side towards 
the street, the Andromeda arborea; and on either side of that 
the Deutzias crenata alba , and Crenata rubra. At 16, towards 
the house, the broad-leaved strawberry tree Enonymus latifo- 
lius; on the left of the group the Weigela rosea; four feet to 
the right of it the Weigela amabalis; four feet to the right again, 
the Weigela arborea grandiflora; and at the right end of the 
group, the great-leaved snow-ball, Viburnum machrophyllum; and 
between these and the strawberry tree, the dwarf snow-ball, Vi¬ 
burnum anglicum. At 17 plant the great-leaved magnolia, M. 
machrophyllicm. At 18 we would make a flat pine tree arch over 
the gateway, as suggested in Chapter XIV. At 19 is a bed of 
