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be the best. Passing along to the left, the tree marked b, is in¬ 
tended for the weeping beech; beyond, the walks form a circle 
for a grand mass of bedding-plants, in a bay of evergreens. The 
tree c, may be the Magnolia machrophylla ; at d, a pair consisting 
of a sassafras and a white-flowering dogwood; opposite to them a 
group of three pines, the Bhotan, Austrian, and white. On the 
right (returning towards the tunnel), the wall between the pines is 
to be screened by a collection of small evergreens. As they will 
have only a north exposure until their tops are higher than the 
division fences, a hemlock hedge close to the fence, with a formal 
collection of rhododendrons and evergreen dwarfs in front of it, 
will be best there. The pine tree at the last turn of the walk is 
intended for the dwarf white ( compacta ) ; or, a weeping Japan 
sophora would be well placed there. 
The suppositional plantings of the other lots back of the alley 
we must leave to the reader; except to mention that the long wall 
which divides the place just described from its neighbor, offers on 
its south side too good an opportunity for a grape-border to be 
lost. We have therefore used its entire length for that purpose. 
The reader will hardly fail to notice that the corner place on 
the left, which originally had double the width of lot of its next 
neighbors, and that too on a corner where bay-windows, and 
ground well improved on the side, gave it many advantages in point 
of beauty and comfort, has now no pleasure-ground that deserves 
the name compared with those which have been secured by means 
of the tunnel, in connection with the houses on the twenty-five 
feet lots. 
