3 14 LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



that suitable areas may be saved for residences, 

 factories, school-houses, parks, churches, and all the 

 different classes of buildings or spaces that will be 

 required in the city. 



While city planning, which takes into account the 

 probable growth of a city, the requirements of all 

 its different kinds of business and residences, its 

 schools and other public buildings, its parks and 

 playgrounds and its connection with the country 

 and other cities, is comparatively new in this coun- 

 try, landscape-gardeners have long been called on 

 to plan suburbs or villages, or special areas, called 

 subdivisions or allotments. 



Clifton and Walnut Hills of Cincinnati, and Lake 

 Forest and Riverside near Chicago, may be cited 

 as examples. The planning of such areas has usually 

 been primarily for residences, although, sometimes, 

 sites for school-houses and churches have been desig- 

 nated. Those qualifications which would fit a man 

 for planning intelligently home grounds would nat- 

 urally qualify him for laying out a collection of such 

 grounds. It is in the outskirts of a town, the places 

 where homes are being developed, that the services 

 of a landscape-gardener are especially needed. 



The steps to be taken in planning a subdivision 



