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PLATE II. 



A Corner Lot having one hundred and Jiffy feet front on one street, 

 and two hundred and fifty feet on another. 



The figures at the bottom, and the letters on the side of the 

 plate, represent spaces of ten feet each. The house is commodious, 

 and its form the most simple and compact. The fronts (veranda 

 lines) are sixty feet from the two streets respectively. A car- 

 riage-house of suitable size occupies the rear corner of the lot, 

 with a stable-yard behind it, and a passage-way for a cart around 

 it. A straight walk to the front door, and a straight road to the 

 carriage-house, are the most appropriate ways to each ; while 

 the side-entrance walk, being prolonged to form the walks to the 

 kitchen, the garden, and the stable, is laid down in a curved form 

 to make it most convenient for these purposes. A covered trellis 

 or arbor forms a continuation of the back veranda, and a dry pas- 

 sage from the back hall to the out-buildings. This is designed for 

 grape vines. The kitchen-garden occupies a space about 45 x 90 

 feet, including the walks. The side fence or wall of the garden, if 

 the exposure is to the east, south, or southwest, may be covered 

 with grapes ; if to the north, with currants or raspberries. The 

 main square of the kitchen-garden is drawn as if covered with 

 small fruits. It may be so used, or filled with vegetables alone. 

 A row of fine cherry trees are set forty feet from the side fence, 

 starting ten feet from the carriage road, and twenty feet apart, and 

 a sixth at the same distance from the first, on the line towards /. 

 The plan indicates the locations for five pear trees, two peach trees, 

 quinces, raspberries, etc. A greater number may be planted in 

 these spaces, but not without eventual injury to the appearance of 

 the grounds. Peach trees are short-lived, and usually scrawny 

 and ill-favored after the first five years of their growth. We would 

 place them reluctantly in any part of grounds that may be seen in 

 connection with other parts which are occupied by lawn-trees and 

 flowers under high keeping. But a place for a few trees having 

 been indicated, it may be as well to put out four or five there as 



