It is more difficult to arrange small places satisfactorily, of from one to three acres, than those of fifty or a hundred, especially when the attempt is made to develop all the features of the large extent in the smaller. The . smaller the grounds, the more necessity of discrimination in the selection of trees and shrubs employed. Attention should be given not only to the height and'size, but more particularly to the beauty and profuseness of foliage. Trees of compact and pleasing habit, and large foliaged shrubs, should be selected. Of Evergreens, the Norway Spruce Fir, the Silver Fir, Hemlock Spruce, Cembrian Pine, Pinus pumilis, White and Black American Spruce, Pinus excelsa, among trees; and Mahonias, Rhododendrons, Ilex latifolia, Euonymus japonica, Aucuba japonica, Kalmia latifolia, as shrubs. These should mostly be planted in masses of two, three, or more plants. Of deciduous trees, the Sugar, Norway, and Tartarian Maples, Horse Chestnut, English Alder, Judas-tree, Kolreuteria, Osage Orange, Magnolia umbrella, Virgilia lutea, and such shrubs as Virginian fringe, Euonymus latifolia, Hydrangea quercifolia, Ligustrum rotundifolia, Mist bush, Spirea Reevesii, Large-leaved Lilacs, Wegelia rosea, Viburnum oxycoccus, Magnolia purpurea, and M. conspicua, and Dwarf Horse Chest- nut are a few of the kinds alluded to.