Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . the season. A good effect is toraise the rear of the bed next the house to theupper tier of the underpinning, then make ita rolling grade down to the turf. Then placehere and there a broken stone of varied color,tilling in and around them with good soil fromthe woods, and then plant the American Ivy orVirginia Creeper, varieties of Hardy Clematis and Trailing Junipers for the purpose ofkeeping a green show in —Tom Thumb, or some other dwarf sort i f Arbor , 12—Two
Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . the season. A good effect is toraise the rear of the bed next the house to theupper tier of the underpinning, then make ita rolling grade down to the turf. Then placehere and there a broken stone of varied color,tilling in and around them with good soil fromthe woods, and then plant the American Ivy orVirginia Creeper, varieties of Hardy Clematis and Trailing Junipers for the purpose ofkeeping a green show in —Tom Thumb, or some other dwarf sort i f Arbor , 12—Two varieties of Apples, grown as —Red Jacket —Eockport —Early Richmond —Black Tartarian —Early York —Old Mixon Free Early to 85—Varieties of Dwarf Pears as follows:1 Benrre Giffart. 1 Bartlett. 1 Duchess *. 1 Tyson. 1 Benrre , 27 and 88—Grapes :1 Concord. 1 Delaware. 1 Hartford 89— ;i0,30—Rows for Currants or other small fruits LA2TOSCAPE GAKI ENING. 45 PLAN No. 8—Early Richmond )—Rock port —Six Dwarf Pears, as follows : 1 Beurre GifEart. 1 Bartlett. 1 Duchess dAngoulcme. 1 Rostiezcr. 1 Louise Bonne de Jersey. 1 Beurre dAnjou. This plan is made only to showhow a place may be improved. Scale25 feet to the inch. The house being:already built and fronting 20 feetback from the street line, one side isso near the adjoining line that thedrip of the eaves really falls uponother property, while on the otherside there is but just good room for acarriage or cartway, for delivery ofcoal, etc., say 12 feet. The distancein the rear of the house is near 50feet, with little or nothing now uponit but an outhouse or privy. We|j commence the improvement of thisplan from the rear, and shall give afair i of the cost. In this, as in all planting, our ad-vice is never to buy large, tall trees,but take stocky, well branched ones,
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