CONTENTS. 



Page 

 CHAFFER 1 



How TO Begin a Suburban Home — Planning Before Beginning . 3 



CHAPTER II 



Choosing the Homesite — The Treatment of Difficult Situations 8 



CHAPTER III 

 Practical Utilities and Art Combined 16 



CHAPTER IV 



Ownership — The Survey — The Preliminary Plan and the 



Grading Plan - 23 



CHAPTER V 

 A Good Design Needs Good Construction , , . 31 



CHAPTER VI 



Architectural Adornments on the Grounds 50 



CHAPTER VII 

 How TO Make a Lawn . . , 55 



CHAPTER \TII 

 V/hat to Plant and How to Make the Planting Plan ..... 64 



CHAPTER IX 

 How and When to Plant , 79 



CHAPTER X 

 Trees — Desiduous and Evergreen — A Few Desirable Kinds . . 95 



