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A FEW FLOWERS 
belts. Austrian 'Pine, White Spruce, Colorado Mountain Spruce (P. pungens), and Red Cedar are here used for this 
purpose ; the Scotch Pine, Pitch Pine, and Norway Spruce have also been used, but unsuccessfully. But where the 
winds are fiercest, deciduous 
trees and shrubs, as Locust, 
Beach Plum, and Wax Myrtle, 
should be planted between the 
evergreens and the water to 
protect the evergreens. 
Wax Myrtle, Locust head¬ 
ed down low, Beach Plum, and 
wild Roses (Caroliniana), inter¬ 
laced with Virginia Creeper, are 
used to bind the faces of the 
high banks, or bluffs, that face 
the Sound. 
Along the top of the wall 
on the sheltered or southern 
side of the Island is a dense 
bank-like line of green vines, 
composed of Celastrus articu¬ 
lates and Silk Vine(Periploca), 
that droop over to meet the 
tide water ; and immediately 
behind it, as to appear part of 
it, is a row of waving plume¬ 
like Tamarix, both African and 
Chinese. 
Besides the plants already 
in mentioned. White Oak, Post 
* Oak, Pepperidge, Chinese Cy- 
o press (Glyptostrobus), and 
u Elceagnus (E. hortensis) among 
< trees, the Button-bush and 
§ Groundsel-tree among shrubs, 
^ and the Swamp Rose-Mallow 
< thrive well by the seaside, even 
where their roots are occasion¬ 
ally inundated by the tide. 
In planting this estate an 
effort has been made to give 
the best landscape effect, and, 
to the connoisseur, the most 
pleasure and interest in the 
grouping, and to provide suit¬ 
able places for the several kinds 
of trees and shrubs. Duplicate 
trees, except for avenues or 
shelter belts, har e been neces¬ 
sarily limited, and the same 
with shrubs, except the most 
showy ones, as Azaleas, Rho¬ 
dodendrons, and Rugosa Roses, 
which are grow n in masses for 
fine effect when in leaf or 
bloom. Every tree is cared for 
individually, and maintained 
from its youth up as a sym¬ 
metrical perfect specimen of 
its kind. The shrubs are mostly 
grouped together according to 
their kind. For instance, a 
