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more attractive, through working with the extent of area 

 that comes from throwing a number of them together 

 into one. The common trouble with the average garden 

 is, that owing to limited area, and then the detraction 

 that comes from positive lines of boundaries, buildings, 

 and walks, it is not easy to produce free garden effects. 

 The larger the garden, the less difficulty we meet here, 

 therefore it will often be advisable to throw a number of 

 these together to be managed and . enjoyed jointly, all 

 with a view to having finer effects, and more gratifying 

 results generally. 



Figure 104 show^s a row of town houses, fifty feet back 

 from the line of the street, with the ground at the front 

 treated on such a plan. It is easily seen how much more 

 satisfactory such a garden may be, in almost every way, 



Fig. 104. — GARDEN FRONT TO A ROW OF HOUSES, USED AND KEPT UP 



JOINTLY. 



than several narrow ones instead, each arranged on a 

 plan of its own. From any house of this row, the eye 

 may meet a beautiful garden scene, possessing breadth, 

 character, and a good variety of embellishments and 

 bringing pleasure and rest, such as no narrow twenty by 

 fifty-foot garden or any number of them could afford. 

 There comes a gain also, in the items of expense for 



