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were small and cheap-looking, will add thousands of dollars to 

 their saleable value. It gives a genteel air to the neighborhood 

 that five times the expenditure in buildings would fail to produce, 

 and serves by this fact alone to attract a class of refined people of 

 small means, who might not find the common run of houses, of the 

 cost of these, sufficiently attractive to induce them to select homes 

 there. 



Though these five houses are quite similar in size and plan, an 

 inspection of them will show that only Nos. 3 and 4 are alike. The 

 others all differ in some respects; the corner houses especially 

 being adapted to their superior locations and double fronts, and 

 therefore needing to be somewhat more expensive. The main part 

 of each is 25 x 38 feet, and the kitchen part 12 x 20, except on 

 lot number one, where it is larger. There is an alley in the rear, 

 upon which outbuildings are located. 



The essential feature of the planting on this neighborhood plan 

 is this : that back of a line ten or twelve feet from the front street, to 

 the foot-step of the porches, there shall be no shrub or tree planted on 

 any of the fronts ; and only those species of flowers which do not 

 exceed six to nine inches in height. This secures a belt of lawn 

 varying from fifteen to forty feet in width, the entire length of the 

 block, and leaves ample space on each lot for a good selection and 

 arrangement of shrubs and flowers. The light dotted lines on the 

 plan show the leading ranges of view over this common lawn. Of 

 course only the lightest of wire fences are to be used between the 

 lots, if any such divisions are required ; and none at all ought to 

 be necessary. 



Lot i is entered from the side-street, under a gateway arbor. 

 From this entrance the whole length of the block to B and E, 

 two hundred and fifty feet, is a lawn, broken only by beds for low 

 flowers, margined one side by the choicest groups of shrubbery, and 

 on the other by the various architectural features of the steps, vases, 

 porches, and verandas of the five houses, and their flowers and 

 vines. Nothing can more strikingly illustrate the advantage of such 

 neighboring improvements than the view from this point, embrac- 

 ing as it does, under one glance, all the beauty that may be created 

 in the " front yards " of five distinct homes, all forming parts of a 



