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106, which sliows a section of Buifalo Park with adjacent 

 lands called ^'Parkside," planned for laying out with 

 curved drives and avenues, and irregularly shaped build- 

 ing lots, the former connecting with the park drives and 

 circles at convenient distances. 



This principle is applicable to suburbs independent of 

 parks, and particularly to summer resort villages, such 

 as are now springing up throughout the country, where- 

 ever there are spots possessing natural attractions, out- 

 lying large towns and cities. The success of these de- 

 pends as much upon the joint action of property owners 

 from year to year, as upon laying out the grounds origi- 

 nally, to have graceful, winding highways, instead of the 

 usual straight streets and sharp angles. In the plan 

 illustrated, the sections formed average about twelve acres 

 in extent, and these divide up into from three to twelve 

 building lots each — large enough to admit of carrying 

 out a joint system of laying out and keejnng up each one 

 with fine effect. 



As wealth and a love for ornamental gardening increase 

 in our land, there are more persons owning farms who 

 enjoy improving them in matters beautiful, as well as 

 useful. A good deal of landscape garden beauty may be 

 combined with most farms, without impairing their value 

 for raising crops or live stock. Figure 107 is a plan for 

 laying out a small farm ornamentally. As shown there 

 are six fields, besides orchards, groves, kitchen garden, 

 and grass plats, adorned with trees, shrubs, flowers, etc. 

 The driveways from tlie street lead gracefully to the main 

 buildings, and throughout the farm. The grass plats in 

 front of the house and the barn, as well as any others, 

 may be kejit closely clipped with the lawn mower, or 

 else — especially the larger ones — they may be mown 

 three or four times during the season for feeding to live 

 stock. In such a plan the fields may be surrounded by 

 hedges, or sometimes advantageously by wire fences. By 



