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single picture. Similar effects are obtained on entering the verdant 

 gateway arch at E, on lot 5 ; and also from the side-streets at the 

 points B and C. The shorter views, from the porches and best 

 windows of each house, are all made vastly more pleasing than 

 would be possible on a single lot. The vignette of Chapter IV is 

 a suppositional view from the porch (A) of the house-plan 2, look- 

 ing towards B. 



From the front street, the 5n-look between the groups that border 

 the front, is such as to make each place when opposite to it, appear 

 to be the most important one. 



Only shrubs, or shrubby trees, are to be admitted on the fronts ; 

 but on the sides, between the houses, cherry and pear trees may be 

 planted. The flower-beds are all shown somewhat larger on these 

 plans than they should be. 



The selections of shrubs, and their arrangement in the many 

 groups adjacent to the front street, will require a thorough famili- 

 arity with the characteristics of shrubs, and should therefore be done 

 by an experienced gardener. Our plate is drawn on too small a 

 scale to enable us to designate in detail the composition of all the 

 groups and single specimens indicated on the plan, and as such 

 groups of places must of necessity, at first, be all arranged under 

 the direction of one gardener, it is not desirable that we should 

 make a suppositional list of shrubs and trees for each lot. 



PLATE XXIII. 



Three Residences occupying the end of a Block two hundred feet in 

 width, on Lots two hundred feet deep, 



Here the end of the block is supposed to have been divided 

 into four lots, each 50 x 200 feet ; the middle two lots being first 

 occupied by a commodious double-house, and each of the side-lots 

 subsequently improved with basement-kitchen houses, of half city, 

 half suburban character, and the fronts of the three places kept by 

 agreement for mutual advantage. 



The house on the left the reader may recognize as similar to 



