. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. AND GROUNDS. 141 in partial shade, and surrounding the trunks on the other sides with some low-growing shrubs that also do not suffer by shade, the arch may be made complete with a variety of surroundings. Just beyond, say fifteen feet from the gate, are two Irish junipers. The lawn between these and the steps is unbroken save by six beds for very low flowers, as shown on and near the dotted line ending at d, and between it and the veranda. The line d is intended to
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent;. Landscape gardening; Trees; Suburban homes. [from old catalog]. AND GROUNDS. 141 in partial shade, and surrounding the trunks on the other sides with some low-growing shrubs that also do not suffer by shade, the arch may be made complete with a variety of surroundings. Just beyond, say fifteen feet from the gate, are two Irish junipers. The lawn between these and the steps is unbroken save by six beds for very low flowers, as shown on and near the dotted line ending at d, and between it and the veranda. The line d is intended to designate a strip upon and near which nothing should be planted; so that a continuous open lawn-view may be had across this place to the places on the left of it, and from them back to the street on the right at d. The group above Figs. 11 and 12 may be composed of dwarf evergreens as follows: on the right, the dwarf white pine, P. strobus co77ipacta ; on the left, six feet from it, the golden arbor- vitas j in the middle above them, four feet from each, the yew, Taxiis ereda, the foliage of which is very dark; and above, close to it, the golden yew, with leaves and twigs, as its name im- ports, prettily tinged with a golden hue; next above, as shown by the speck on the plan, a plant of the dwarf fir, Abies gregoriana or the Andromeda floribunda^ either of which is exceedingly dwarf These would in time make a charming small evergreen group, but the dwarf trees which compose it grow slowly, so that it is necessary to keep the ground cultivated between the trees, and filled with bulbs, annuals, or perennials, until the evergreens are large enough to meet. Fig. 42 is a sketch made in the home-grounds of Mr. S. B. Parsons, at Flushing, L. I., showing an actual group somewhat similar to the one just suggested, composed of but four trees or shrubs, and three species. The low one in front is the Andromeda floribimda, the next the golden arbor-vitee, and the two behind it the Irish yew
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