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PLATE XIX. 



Plan for a Residence of Medium Size on a Corner Lot 150 x 200 feet, 

 with no provision for keeping a horse or carriage. 



This house-plan is the same as that on Plate XVIII, but the 

 lot is only one-half the depth of that one, though the frontage is 

 the same. The street on the longer side being supposed the most 

 desirable to front upon, the division of the lot in lawn, fruit, and 

 vegetable-garden, resembles, on a smaller scale, that of Plate 

 XVII though on this the direct walk to the front door is dis- 

 pensed with, and only the entrances at the two front corners of the 

 lot are used. This is rarely a desirable arrangement, but the ex- 

 pression aimed at in the design of this lot is extreme openness and 

 breadth of lawn, in proportion to the size of the lot. To dispense 

 with a walk directly from the street to the front door increases this 

 expression, but it is not essential to it. If the members of the 

 family who occupy the house rarely use a carriage, it is not a 

 matter of much importance to have a direct front walk ; especially 

 if all the travel to and from the house is along the street, so that 

 one corner gate or the other makes a nearer approach than a walk 

 in the centre only. But if the family have often occasion to ride, 

 the side-entrances will seem an awkward detour; and we would 

 then by all means dispense with the walk which runs nearly 

 parallel with the street, and have a broad straight walk to the 

 front porch, and a smaller walk to the rear of the house, nearly 

 as here represented. This would, of course, involve considerable 

 changes in the plan for planting. 



An alley is supposed to bound the lot on the left ; a shed and 

 cow-house* and small cow-yard are therefore represented in the 

 rear corner on that side, and an arbor-vitae hedge is to be planted 

 inside the fence along the alley. Ten feet from the alley, and 



* The grass from the lawn, on such a place as this, if fed as cut, is more than enough to supply 

 one cow with green food for seven months of the year ; probably, together with the pail-feed from 

 the house, enough to keep two cows. 



