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the line G, H, between thirty and forty feet from the street, an 

 open line of lawn is maintained with a view to reciprocity of vistas 

 with the smaller front grounds of adjoining neighbors. 



As remarked of the preceding plan, this design embraces too 

 much for verbal description, and should be planted after a well- 

 considered working plan. But there is one small feature to which 

 we would call attention, viz.: the triangular piece between the 

 enrrance-road and turn-ways. This is marked to be planted with 

 fir trees, to grow into a dense mass, in order to counteract as far 

 as possible, by its shadows and the depth of its verdure, the bare 

 exposure of the surrounding roads. The centre tree should be 

 the Norway spruce, and the others surrounding it, hemlocks. 



A careful examination of the plan will, we trust, supersede the 

 necessity of any further description. 



PLATE XII. 



An Inside Lot one hundred feet front, and one hundred and 

 sixty feet deep. 



Reference was made to this plate in descriptions of Plates VIII 

 and IX, the house-plan and the lot, in form and size, being nearly 

 the same ; this plan being an in-lot with no carriage-house and 

 stable, and the others being corner lots with these conveniences. 

 The lot here represented is supposed to have an alley on the 

 rear end, and to front on the south side of an east and west 

 street. This gives the bay-window front of the house a northern 

 exposure. A great advantage, in the outlook from the windows, 

 results from this exposure, viz. : that one sees the sunny-side of all 

 the shrubbery in the front grounds, and thus has the satisfaction 

 of finding his verdant pets always in a smiling humor. The 

 house is sixty feet from the front street, and about the same 

 depth in the rear end of the lot is devoted to the kitchen- 

 garden, fruits, and cow, wood and coal-house ; this part be- 

 ing separated from the part devoted to lawn by a grape-trellis 

 and border. Near the street the neighbors' lots are supposed 



