American homes and gardens . y hazels (Corylus),beech (Fagus), and hop-hornbeam (Carpinus).Chestnuts come next, the more tender forms to beprotected by a grove of chestnut trees. The Sym-phoricarpus family overlap the chestnuts, and thedwarf chestnuts are grouped close to this occupy the next position and stretch for somedistance beside the drive. Smaller shrubs, groupsof honeysuckle family, are interspersed between thelarge oak species. Honeysuckles, Diervillas andViburna are to be found thus placed amongthe oaks. The moisture-loving varieties of oaks have beenplanted on the lower
American homes and gardens . y hazels (Corylus),beech (Fagus), and hop-hornbeam (Carpinus).Chestnuts come next, the more tender forms to beprotected by a grove of chestnut trees. The Sym-phoricarpus family overlap the chestnuts, and thedwarf chestnuts are grouped close to this occupy the next position and stretch for somedistance beside the drive. Smaller shrubs, groupsof honeysuckle family, are interspersed between thelarge oak species. Honeysuckles, Diervillas andViburna are to be found thus placed amongthe oaks. The moisture-loving varieties of oaks have beenplanted on the lower side of the road near the swamp. Amongthese are found swamp white oak, Quercus Blcolor, QuercusUliginosa, willow oak (Quercus Phellos), pine oak, Quer-cus Palustris and others. Masses of climbing honeysucklehave been planted against rock boulders among the these Japanese honeysuckle, Lonicera Halleana, the na-tive southern honeysuckle, Lonicera Sempervlrens, andLonicera Sullivanti are most prominent. The smaller oak. A Fine Woodpath on the Simon Bradstreet Estate, Flanked by Maples. The Borders are Filled Out with Rhododendrons Catawbierse Intermixed with Rhopontisum and Many Species of Ferns and Other Tender Plants Used as Ground Covers tinued along the hillside above the road till they meet theVarnish trees and Koelreuteria. Numerous rockeries have been built along the road nearthe Catalpas. One is devoted to the Lycium family, anotherto the andromedas and still another to evergreens. Anotherrockery is located under an old willow tree. Clethra makesa background, while small andromedas are planted among therocks. The Sambucus family and Oxydendron groups ad- species have been kept in the foreground along the road and join this rockery. Across the road, under the Catalpas, arethe taller growths placed to form a background. The red planted blueberries of sixteen varieties. Next to these, uponand white oaks are found in many varieties, some extremely the swampland, a mag
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