230 PLANS OF RESIDENCES 



and pleasure walks that can quickly be made interesting. In 

 connection with the double exit porch we have drawn buildings 

 for hired men, including workshops and tool-rooms of the same 

 width, under a roof supposed to be a continuation of the pavilion- 

 structure on Mr. Smith's lot. Many persons who employ men- 

 servants object to lodging them in their residences. As rooms 

 for them may be provided more cheaply in connection with the 

 building of this tunnel porch than if built separately, we have 

 introduced them ; but they are not essential to the plan. 



We will now sketch the general features of the planting for the 

 first described lot back of the alley. It must be borne in mind, to 

 begin with, that this lot, 100 x 185 feet, is a small area upon which 

 to place all the structures and gardenesque embellishments that the 

 ground-plan indicates ; and being surrounded by a high wall or 

 fence to insure its absolute seclusion, its lawn-surface will be still 

 further lessened by the belts of trees and shrubs that must be planted 

 inside the walls to relieve their monotony. This limited area can 

 be planted so as to avoid inelegant crowding only by a selection of 

 trees of secondary size, and a very judicious choice of shrubs. 

 But when such walled grounds are successfully treated, there is 

 an expression of snugness and elegant privacy about them that the 

 ladies are apt to speak of as "delicious." Those who have passed 

 through dark houses on some of the narrow streets of old Paris, 

 and emerged suddenly in great gardens behind them, which one 

 could hardly imagine there was vacant room for within a mile of 

 the place ; or those who have been equally surprised and delighted 

 with the brilliant gardens behind the dismal street-walls of Spanish 

 American cities, can appreciate fully how charming such grounds 

 as these may be made, and how the mere novelty of such a tunnel- 

 entrance to a walled garden will give it a special charm. 



We have not hitherto called attention to the path from the 

 kitchen (under the dining-room) directly to and across the alley, 

 to the carriage-house and stable. Between this path and the exit- 

 porch of the tunnel, the space is to be filled with a pine tree and a 

 dense growth of hemlocks, and an impervious screen of the latter is 

 to be continued along the right-hand side of the path issuing from 

 the tunnel ; to be grown to a height that will conceal the stable 



