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is on the lawn shown in (No. IX). A very 
effective piece of composition with the 
two handsome and well matched blue 
spruces. The background of trees on the 
far side of the street makes an indispensa¬ 
ble setting. 
VI. Mr. L. A. Cerf. A well conceived 
little flower garden which may be ex¬ 
pected to be very charming when it has 
had a few years’ growth. The shelter on 
the left is well designed and placed. The 
two rows of phlox and other plants along 
the sides of the lawn are not very fortu¬ 
nate and look like an afterthought. A 
line of box enclosing them would add 
character. The heavy stone seat fills one 
with a desire to unite the sundered pieces. 
Compare the effect of vistas closed by 
undivided semicircular seats in Nos. I 
and V. 
VII. Mr. S. V. Hill. A healthy horse 
chestnut on the lawn is a very desirable 
thing. The planting at the house is not 
very well done. The evergreens are not 
well grouped and appear to be set too 
close to the house and the contrast be¬ 
tween them and the row of cannas is un¬ 
pleasant. But there is a small dogwood 
placed with good judgment where it will 
become a treasure and the lawn itself is 
refreshingly free and clear as far as the 
picture shows, and should inspire content¬ 
ment in the beholder. 
VIII. Mr. H. Susman. An admirable 
picture on the whole with the bare limbs 
of the old tree as a foreground. Here we 
have a round bed of flowering plants in a 
place where a round bed must be, yet one 
cannot help feeling an incongruity between 
the mass of gaudy bedding plants and the 
refined and beautiful character of the 
foliage with its lights and depths investing 
the architecture. 
IX. Mr. Otto Jaeger. This place is 
striking because of its simplicity and the 
apparently inevitable character of its lay¬ 
out. It looks as if anyone would have 
done about the same kind of thing. Yet 
this is in one sense or another an essential 
characteristic of all good work, and is 
comparatively seldom attained. The flower 
bed filling the space between the wall of 
trained fruit trees with the cleverly placed 
sundial and the pair of Italian poplars (un¬ 
fortunately not a good match) on either 
side of the dormer window of the stable 
and the glimpse of the house porch are 
very happy. The simplicity of this whole 
scheme is very attractive and well handled, 
but the danger in such work is that every 
detail counts and every one out of place 
or scale detracts plainly from the effect. 
In this case the small cup shaped tree on 
the lawn (a trained fruit tree) because of 
its shape and size is too much isolated from 
the other trees. It would have been better 
omitted, or perhaps better still, with one 
or two other trees near it, arranged to 
group with he other trees. The small- 
cordon fruit trees to the right of the road 
look weak and ineffective, but they will 
lose this character as they get older and 
neater. 
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