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ownership of the adjoining land will, moreover, 

 enable the club to control the surroundings so that 

 their future development will not detract from the 

 beauty of the grounds themselves. In some cases, 

 the sale of this additional land for homes has paid the 

 first entire cost of the property. There should not 

 be too many houses or too much evidence of them as 

 seen from the club-house or the points along the course. 

 With careful study and with planning, the public 

 ground of the course and the private grounds of the 

 surrounding homes can be made to affect each other 

 in such a way as to add to the comfort and the en- 

 joyment of all : to the golf members in the knowl- 

 edge that no unsightly building will be erected 

 beyond its limits which can injure the appearance 

 of the course, and to those living in the surround- 

 ing homes by having the planting done in such a 

 way as to insure them extensive and beautiful views. 

 The selection of location for the homes just men- 

 tioned will be in some respects like that of house 

 sites about an attractive lake. In either case, a 

 house can be so placed that its windows will ap- 

 parently command all the desirable views while the 

 house itself, framed and partly screened by plant- 

 ing, is comparatively inconspicuous. 



