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shrubs that should be always in high condition, as it is conspicu¬ 
ous from every point of view. We will suggest for its point 
nearest the house the Spirea callosa alba; then the Deutzia gra¬ 
cilis ; next, two feet from the former, the Spirea reevesi flore plena; 
next (in the middle line of the bed), the Spirea callosa fortunii, with 
a Daphne cneorum on each side of it to cover its nakedness near 
the ground ; and for the end of the bed nearest the entrance-gate, 
the Chinese red, or the Chinese purple magnolia. Or this bed 
may be filled with evergreen shrubs or shrubby trees alone, as 
follows: for the point nearest the house, the Daphne cneorum ; near, 
and behind it, the Andromeda floribunda; next, two feet from the 
former, a pair of rhododendrons, Roseum elegans and Album Can¬ 
didas ima ; next, in the middle, a single rhododendron, gloriosum, 
with a rhododendron, everestianum , on each side of it; next, in the 
centre line of the bed, the Cephalotaxus fortunii mascula ; and for 
the end of the bed next the street the golden yew, or the golden 
arbor-vitae. No. 20 is the weeping juniper, Oblonga pendula , 21 is 
a grand rose-bed; 22, a belt of common shrubs; 23, an Irish 
juniper; 24, a Swedish juniper; 25, Siberian arbor-vitaes, con¬ 
tinued as a high hedge around to 26, where it is terminated by a 
Nordmanns fir. In the centre of the semicircle which this hedge 
is intended to describe, and on a line with the centre of the dining¬ 
room, is to be an elegant vase for flowers ; and four circular beds 
for low brilliant flowers are intended to make the view from the 
bay-window more pleasing. The very small shrubs at the corners 
of that bay-window represent Irish junipers. 
The flower-beds in this plan need not be described in detail. 
Quite a number of vases are marked on the plan, but they are not 
essential to the good effect of the planting, though pleasing addi¬ 
tions if well chosen and well filled. 
Fig. 43 is a view of the house on this plan, taken from a point 
on the street line fifty or sixty feet to the left of this lot, looking 
across a portion of the neighbor-lot, and its light division fence. 
The architect having kindly furnished a sketch of the house with¬ 
out any reference to the grounds, we have endeavored to sketch 
the sylvan features as shown on the ground-plan, from the same 
point of view ; but it is quite impossible in small engravings to do 
