Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . an we have remodeled from one published by II. Hudson Holly, in Harpers Magazine of May, 1870. Tin-elevation is a copy from Harpers Magazine of same date, mebest magazine ever published. Now to the ground plan, the scale is forty feet to one inch,and so the porch will vary from 8 to 10 bet; it is marked x x x. No. 2 is a hall 8 by 28 feet, opening to No. 7, which isdesigned for the stairway above, and \a 12 by 16 feet, with abranch of 4 bjT 8 feet, having a light of window as a gu
Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . an we have remodeled from one published by II. Hudson Holly, in Harpers Magazine of May, 1870. Tin-elevation is a copy from Harpers Magazine of same date, mebest magazine ever published. Now to the ground plan, the scale is forty feet to one inch,and so the porch will vary from 8 to 10 bet; it is marked x x x. No. 2 is a hall 8 by 28 feet, opening to No. 7, which isdesigned for the stairway above, and \a 12 by 16 feet, with abranch of 4 bjT 8 feet, having a light of window as a guide tthe stairway. No. 3 is the living room or parlor, 16 by 20 feet, and openingto Xo. 4, 16 by 16 feet, with a bay window; both of these openby doors to the main hall. No. 9 is the dining room, 16 by 20 to 22 feet, and opens fromthe main hall and through No. 7, which is a hall and stairwavto No. 5, the kitchen, 16 by 16 feet, with closets (see 6 and 10)then a store room (No. 8) 8 by 20, which can be opened fromNo. 9. Again, No. 4 can be used as a dining room, and and 8 as living and bed 74 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL Elevation to Plan No. 14 Now we show upon the plan the walks and roads by deeperlines and shading. The half oval in front of the house, betweenthe carriage road and foot path, shows bed cut in the turf; thesebeds, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, are to be filled with flowering bulbs, plants,etc., according to the taste of the owner. Bed 6 is to be plantedwith Dwarf Evergreens, the Juniperus Repens being the edging. The trees on this plan are shown as follows: 16—This line runs along the roadway andboundary ; fill it with hardy floweringshrubs, arranging for the tallest growersto be near the barn, and tone down in 1,1,1—Red or Scarlet Maples. 2—Weeping Cut-leaved Birch. 3—Magnolia Acuminata. 4—Liriodendron Tulipifera. 5—White or Weymouth Pine. 6—Cembrian Pine. 7—American White Spruce. 8—American Black Spruce. 9—Norway ,10,10—Lombardy Poplars
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