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hedge on the street line, but on the contrary the lawn is open 
except at the entrances; and one standing on the sidewalk at A, 
though barred from all view of the circle by the mass of evergreens 
opposite, may have pleasing glimpses into the place on the lines 
A B, A C, and across these corners into the adjoining lot lawns. 
The two front gateways should be overarched with evergreen 
topiary arches—one side with arbor-vitae, and the other with hem¬ 
locks, firs, or pines, as the soil and exposure may make one or the 
other preferable. The glimpses into the grounds from under either 
of these arches will extend the whole length of the lawn back to 
the cold grape-house on the right, and from the left, back to the 
grape-trellis that separates the vegetable-garden from the lawn. 
A still longer vista may be made from the left-hand gateway by 
making a decorative arch in the grape-trellis at the end of the 
garden-walk which corresponds with the one at the end of the cold 
grape-house. 
The evergreen group in the middle of the lot near the street 
may be composed as follows: in the centre two Nordmanns firs, 
four feet apart, on a line at right angles with the street; on each 
side of these a mass of hemlocks (say four on each side) for a 
distance of sixteen feet each way; and at each point of the group 
single specimens of the weeping silver-fir and the weeping Norway 
spruce. This will make the group about forty feet from point to 
point, measuring from the stems of the last-named trees. 
The trees which arch the intersections of the entrance-walks 
with the circular-walk, may be double pairs of sassafras on one 
side, and one pair of kolreuterias on the other. At c, a weeping 
beech; at g, the Chinese cypress ( Glypto-strobus sinensis pendula) 
south of New York, and north of it a group composed of the weep¬ 
ing Norway spruce in the centre, and the following junipers around 
it: the J. repanda densa, J. oblonga pendula , J. suecica nana, J. 
spceroides; or, instead of the junipers, the following dwarf firs, viz.: 
the Abies nigra pumila , A. gregoriana , A. conica , A. canadensis inverta 
(Sargent’s hemlock), A. canadensis Parsoni (Parson’s hemlock), the 
Picea pectinata comp act a, and the Picea hitdsonica. At d and h, the 
finest pines for which the soil and location are suited ; at e, the 
Magnolia cordata; ztf a group of evergreen shrubs next the fence, 
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